It was a strangely varied bunch who gathered in the Millennium Centre to hear details of the firms bidding to take on the news-broadcasting mantle about to be discarded by ITV Wales. Perhaps this was fitting given the strangely varied bunch of bidders identified and which left today’s proceedings largely unreported.
Credit to a Change in Personnel for publicising the event but there was more than one observation among those who attended that the disappointing quality of successors was a result of the £6 million of government support on offer – a sum when compared pro-rata for a Welsh language news medium is frankly pitiful.
Others might argue that the money represents a good deal but anyone demanding a Wales Audit Office assessment might have to wait awhile as that body has more pressing issues to resolve following Mr Colman’s sudden departure; an event that received comparably more coverage but which is unlikely have much of an impact on plurality of news reporting Wales either way.
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(CS)
2 Comments:
at least you reported back,
maybe there is sense of going through the motions, i'm sure i read that the Conservatives will scrap the IFNC scheme if they are elected, so there could be something else on offer after the General Election who knows
£6m is a lot of money if it's for a year of news. Who gets the advertising revenues that are pretty good given the 250,000+ audiences ITV Wales still gets in that slot?
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