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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 4 - Evidence session with S4C
I just don't understand how that would work. So, for example, I have a Roku set-top box, whatever it is. I don't have an aerial going to my signals, so I don't receive the EPG; I have tiles that I can subscribe to. So, under a due prominence regime, how would…
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 3 - Evidence session with the BBC
Mmm-hmm.
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 3 - Evidence session with the BBC
I understand that, and that's fair. My point is a different one; it's about the quality of storytelling.
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 3 - Evidence session with the BBC
Sure.
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 3 - Evidence session with the BBC
You pop in the office every now and again, don't you?
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 3 - Evidence session with the BBC
Back to the question of network activity, and recognising the progress you have made, I was reflecting last night on my first experience on this committee 10 years ago with Tony Hall, when we gave him a very hard time on the level of network spend in Wales…
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 3 - Evidence session with the BBC
My question was about news, though—that's a very different point to news.
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 3 - Evidence session with the BBC
I've sat close to you in an England-Wales rugby match, I fully know your cultural biases.
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 3 - Evidence session with the BBC
I agree.
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 3 - Evidence session with the BBC
The floor is yours.
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 3 - Evidence session with the BBC
And that, in terms of a metropolitan mindset, and this doesn't just apply to the BBC, is a big shift. What I'm not seeing is a creative and journalistic curiosity of thinking beyond the usual London-centric mindset. So, it's not just about a bean-counting…
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 3 - Evidence session with the BBC
I think the point I'm making is a broader one. It's a more difficult cultural one, in that your charter explicitly says that you would cover—I forget the wording—the character and the nature of the UK, and it's news of a multinational and devolved sense.
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 3 - Evidence session with the BBC
Just to return to news, I'm sure that we can expect, in the run-up to the election, the BBC to be doing its full PSB duty of bending over backwards to do the Welsh election coverage, but then we revert back to normal. And the prominence of Welsh coverage…
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 3 - Evidence session with the BBC
I'll just pick you up on that YouTube announcement just there, which I thought was very encouraging. The figures on the demographics are quite alarming, from your point of view, and the affinity of younger people towards the BBC is significantly weakened from…
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 3 - Evidence session with the BBC
Not half, there isn't.
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 3 - Evidence session with the BBC
That's a different point, and I recognise that point. That's not my question. My question is why do you justify spending double the amount on English language programming in Scotland.
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 3 - Evidence session with the BBC
And yet you're spending half on us what you're spending on Scotland. How do you justify that?
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 3 - Evidence session with the BBC
On Alun's point on comparison with Scotland and spend, because you have this separate channel in Scotland, spend on English-language programming is double that in Wales, even though Welsh audiences remain your most loyal.
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 3 - Evidence session with the BBC
I agree. It's a big deal. Good. Diolch.
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 3 - Evidence session with the BBC
Okay.
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 3 - Evidence session with the BBC
Can I ask specifically about that agreement? Because that does sound very encouraging at face value. One of the concerns S4C has had about iPlayer is that it didn't have access to the back-end data, to the analytics.
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Introductions, apologies and substitutions
Yes, I declare that my son is a BBC apprentice.
, Plenary
Short Debate: The need for a national plan to improve Tourette syndrome services
Parents of children with Tourette's will often tell you that when their kids come home from school, they will experience meltdowns—outbursts of rage and violence are not uncommon. 'But they were fine all day', a teacher or relative may say, but little do they…
, Plenary
Short Debate: The need for a national plan to improve Tourette syndrome services
Diolch, Dirprwy Lywydd. I've agreed to give John Griffiths, Carolyn Thomas, Mabon ap Gwynfor and Mark Isherwood a minute of time. Tourette's is a complex and misunderstood condition, and yet it's a common one. It's a brain order that affects one in 100…
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Public service broadcasting in Wales: Panel 2 - Evidence session with academics
That's been their negotiating tactic for 20 years. All that achieves is people saying, 'Poor dabs; fair play to them, they're trying their best. Let's not give them too much regulation.' But they now have a watered-down commitment for their new licence, which…
