All S4C articles – Page 27

  • Rownd a Rownd
    News

    S4C awards £7m indie contracts

    2010-05-17T12:31:00Z

    S4C has awarded two indies contracts worth more than £7m to produce children’s content over the next three years.

  • Digital Switchover
    News

    Wales first to go digital

    2010-03-31T00:01:00Z

    Wales has become the UK’s first digital nation with all analogue television signals switched off at midnight.

  • S4C Clirlun
    News

    S4C to launch HD channel

    2010-03-30T11:04:00Z

    Welsh broadcaster S4C is to launch a new high definition service.

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    News

    Five opts not to launch Freeview HD channel

    2010-03-15T16:31:00Z

    Five has delayed plans to launch its Freeview HD channel until 2012 due to the high costs involved.    

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    News

    Boomerang signs £4m deal with S4C

    2010-03-05T11:11:00Z

    Indie Boomerang Plus has signed a three-year £4m deal to produce content for S4C’s pre-school service Cyw.

  • News

    Boomerang profits fall but future looks rosy

    2010-02-25T16:44:00Z

    Boomerang Plus’s profits for the six months to 30 November tumbled to £490, 000, but the production company has £50m in commissions and revenues in the pipeline over the next few years.

  • Collision
    Features

    Peak performance for unstoppable ITV

    2010-01-28T10:38:00Z

    The BBC will have to find consolation with its dominant Christmas slot as its rival stole the show in the fi nal quarter. By Stephen Price.

  • Rownd a Rownd
    News

    S4C unveil kids TV plans

    2010-01-26T18:28:00Z

    Welsh broadcaster S4C has pledged to boost its home-grown children’s programming in the wake of a House of Lords report that called for an increase in shows for kids.

  • Britain's Got Talent: Susan Boyle
    Ratings

    Ratings: Top 100 of 2009

    2010-01-21T12:05:00Z

    Despite the economic meltdown, 2009 was a bumper year for ratings. But, as Stephen Price reveals, it was ITV that took the peaktime plaudits as talent show fever gripped the nation.

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    News

    TSL wins S4C HD facility deal

    2010-01-18T14:30:00Z

    Systems integrator TSL has been awarded a consultancy agreement that will see it play a key role in taking the Welsh language channel S4C to HD.

  • Angharad Jones
    News

    Former S4C commissioner found dead at sea

    2010-01-11T10:54:00Z

    Welsh broadcaster S4C has paid tribute to a former commissioner whose body was pulled from the sea in the early hours of Saturday morning.

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    News

    Mwnci opts for The MatrixStore

    2010-01-05T12:45:00Z

    Object Matrix has sold its pre-production rushes and nearline archive technology The MatrixStore to Cardiff based post-production facility Mwnci.

  • Peppa Pig
    News

    Nickelodeon triumphs at Children's Baftas

    2009-11-30T11:35:00Z

    Nickelodeon UK was named channel of the year at the Children’s Baftas last night, beating CBBC and CBeebies to the prize for the first time ever.

  • Ben Bradshaw
    News

    Indie classification rules may change

    2009-11-05T14:43:00Z

    More television production companies will be classified as independent producers under new proposals from the Culture Secretary.

  • Royal Welsh Agricultural Show
    News

    Boomerang wins £3.2m S4C contract

    2009-10-28T10:17:00Z

    Welsh indie Boomerang Plus has won a lucrative four-year contract with S4C worth £3.2m to film and broadcast events from the Royal Welsh Showground.

  • Richard Hammond
    News

    Children's Bafta list announced

    2009-10-27T09:26:00Z

    TV presenter Richard Hammond is in the running for a Bafta after being nominated for his children’s show Blast Lab.

  • Amazon
    News

    Boomerang Plus profits down 19%

    2009-10-26T09:01:00Z

    Welsh indie Boomerang Plus saw a 19% drop in operating profits in the year to 31 May because of delayed and cancelled projects, commissions which underperformed financially, and a “general downward pressure” on programming budgets.

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    Features

    Tigh Dudley

    2009-10-15T10:43:00Z

    Titles for a S4C cookery programme in which contestants are eliminated during the show.

  • Amazon
    News

    Boomerang closes in on Indus

    2009-10-15T07:37:00Z

    Listed indie Boomerang Plus is poised to buy Amazon producer Indus Films.

  • News

    Rondo cooks up fourth food show for S4C

    2009-09-10T07:00:00Z

    Welsh indie Rondo Media will serve up a fourth schools cookery show with chef Dudley Newbery for S4C.