The Western Mail has managed to put a potentially ravenous cat among some over-fed pigeons with its revelations of actual viewing figures at S4C. They make very worrying reading at a time when cutbacks and parsimony are becoming the popular political mantra.
Yet no-one is so far making the suggestion that a questionable value-for-money ratio and the dubious 'digital switchover' rationale offered up to explain a close to zero level of viewers should be the subject of slightly more rigorous scrutiny. Strange also that Shipton could not find anyone more relevant than Rod Richards to comment and that even the source of the leak apparently seems reluctant to add anything further.
Anyway, the paper helpfully points out that the Welsh language channel is funded through an index-linked grant of more than £100m a year from the UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport and not the Welsh Assembly Government. However, as in other things, with transfer of powers will inevitably come a transfer of responsibilities.
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This is a fairly large elephant for even your average gutless Welsh politician to be able to ignore and blaming the programmers isn't going to help. Sooner or later, some is going have to ask if we can actually afford this channel in its present form and I think that the answers will be very interesting.
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