Media in Cardiff

As the capital of Wales, media in Cardiff plays a large role in the city and nationwide. Employment in the sector has grown significantly in recent years, and currently provides employment for 2.1% of the city's workforce – higher than the level across Wales (1.1%) and marginally lower than that across Great Britain as a whole (2.2%).{{cite web|url=http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/ObjView.asp?Object_ID=3775 |title=The Film, TV and Multimedia Sector in Cardiff |publisher=Economic Development Division, Cardiff County Council |format=PDF |date=1 December 2003 |access-date=17 January 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609173256/http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/ObjView.asp?Object_ID=3775 |archive-date=9 June 2011 }}

History

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At 5pm on 13 February 1923, 5WA Cardiff, a forerunner of BBC Radio Wales, first broadcast from a music shop at 19 Castle Street in Cardiff city centre. Later that evening at 9.30pm Mostyn Thomas, sang Dafydd y Garreg Wen, which was the first Welsh language song to be broadcast. A commemorative plaque records the event.{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-21426191| title=Broadcasting in Wales: 90 years since BBC went on air| work=BBC News| date=13 February 2013|access-date=26 January 2016}} 5WA Cardiff was a radio service which began broadcasting on 13 February 1923 and ended on 27 May 1933.{{cite web|url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/schedules/5wa/1923-09-30| title=5WA Cardiff Listings|access-date=26 January 2016}}

Press

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Cardiff's daily tabloid newspaper is the South Wales Echo, founded in 1884 and formerly based in Thomson House, now in 6 Park Street in the city centre. There are two daily editions – News Extra in the morning and City Final edition. The Weekend Edition is published on Saturday. Roughly 50,000 copies are sold daily. The national newspapers, the Western Mail and Wales on Sunday, are also based in Thomson House as all are owned by Trinity Mirror. The Western Mail has a daily circulation of about 40,000.

The Cardiff edition of Metro is available daily on public transport in the city and around South Wales.{{cite web|url=http://www.metro.co.uk/about | title=Metro – Britain's first urban national newspaper | access-date=23 April 2008}} Both the South Wales Echo and Metro publish daily information for the city such as the weather and entertainment listings.

The Times Educational Supplement Cymru is based in the city, but the paper itself is printed in England.

Gair Rhydd is the award-winning weekly broadsheet published by the students of Cardiff University and is available free in the Cardiff University Students' Union.{{cite web|url=http://www.gairrhydd.com/info/about/ | title=About Gair Rhydd | access-date=23 April 2008}}

Cardiff County Council publishes the monthly Capital Times, and the Echo Extra is delivered free to homes. The Welsh language newspaper Y Dinesydd (or Papur Bro) is published monthly for the city. Additionally, all British daily newspapers are widely available in the city.{{cite web|url=http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/content.asp?nav=2874%2C4812&parent_directory_id=2865 | title=Capital Times | access-date=23 April 2008}}{{cite web |url=http://www.dinesydd.com/index.php |title=Y Dinesydd |access-date=23 April 2008 |archive-date=6 July 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706091245/http://www.dinesydd.com/index.php |url-status=dead }}

Magazines based in the capital include Jazz UK, Buzz magazine and Primary Times

Television

All of Wales' national broadcasters are based in Cardiff. BBC Cymru Wales used to have its headquarters at, the now largely demolished, Broadcasting House in Llandaff while ITV Cymru Wales is based near the Senedd in Cardiff Bay and the Welsh language broadcaster S4C broadcasts from Llanishen.

In addition, a local television channel for the city, Made in Cardiff, is based in offices at St Mary's Street in the city centre. An analogue local TV channel, Capital TV, broadcast as a low-power RSL analogue station from 2002 to 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/archive/itc/itc_publications/itc_notes/view_note78.html|title=Television in Wales|publisher=Independent Television Commission|access-date=31 December 2009}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv/ifi/tvlicensing/tvupdates/monthly/200903 |title=Television Broadcast Licensing Update March 2009 |publisher=Ofcom |access-date=31 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412110127/http://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv/ifi/tvlicensing/tvupdates/monthly/200903 |archive-date=12 April 2009 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.assemblywales.org/bus-home/bus-committees/bus-committees-scrutiny-committees/bus-committees-third-bcc-home/business-broadcasting-inquiries/bcc_3__responses/bcc_3_34.htm|title=Inquiry into Public Service Broadcasting|publisher=Welsh Assembly Government|access-date=31 December 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222014306/http://www.assemblywales.org/bus-home/bus-committees/bus-committees-scrutiny-committees/bus-committees-third-bcc-home/business-broadcasting-inquiries/bcc_3__responses/bcc_3_34.htm|archive-date=22 February 2012}}

The city also has its own Ofcom-licensed local digital television spectrum, owned by Cube Interactive.{{cite web |url=http://www.ofcom.org.uk/media/news/2009/02/nr_20090227 |title=Ofcom awards spectrum license to Cube Interactive |access-date=20 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091009180817/http://www.ofcom.org.uk/media/news/2009/02/nr_20090227 |archive-date=9 October 2009 }}

Radio

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As the national broadcaster, BBC Cymru Wales, used to broadcast BBC Radio Wales (103.9 FM) and BBC Radio Cymru (96.8 FM) on various frequencies across Wales from Broadcasting House in Llandaff.

Cardiff's principal commercial radio stations are Capital South Wales (103.2 FM), Heart South Wales (105.4 FM) and Smooth Wales (DAB); all three of which originate local programming from studios at the Red Dragon Centre in Cardiff Bay.

Radio Cardiff (98.7 FM) is a community station based in the Butetown area and Radio Glamorgan broadcasts to the University Hospital of Wales in Heath.{{cite web|url=http://www.radiocardiff.org/ | title=Radio Cardiff | access-date=23 April 2008}}{{cite web |url=http://www.radioglamorgan.com/index.html |title=Radio Glamorgan |access-date=14 November 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110715145650/http://www.radioglamorgan.com/index.html |archive-date=15 July 2011 }}

Student radio station Tequila Radio broadcasts from the University of South Wales's ATRiuM Campus and Xpress Radio originates from Cardiff University Students' Union.{{cite web|url=http://www.tequilaradio.co.uk/about.html | title=Tequila Radio – About | access-date=14 November 2010}}{{cite web|url=http://www.xpressradio.co.uk/ | title=Xpress Radio | access-date=23 April 2008}}

Other institutions

The Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies is based at Cardiff University.{{cite web|url=http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/jomec/ | title=Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies | access-date=23 April 2008}}

The Atrium building houses most of the Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries faculty (CCI for short) of the University of South Wales.

Use in media

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Cardiff is the filming location and/or setting for many mainstream television programmes such as Doctor Who and its spin-offs, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, Class (2016 TV series), Merlin (TV series), Gavin & Stacey, The Story of Tracy Beaker (TV series), His Dark Materials (TV series), Netflix's Sex Education (TV series), Caerdydd and Pobl y Cwm, and for films such as Human Traffic, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain, Infinite (film) and 28 Weeks Later.{{cite news|url=http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/celebrity/article3790288.ece |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511171756/http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/celebrity/article3790288.ece |url-status=dead |archive-date=11 May 2008 | title=Times – Why Wales is suddenly cool | access-date=23 April 2008 |work=The Times |location=London | first=Hugo | last=Rifkind | date=22 April 2008}}{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/464519.stm | title=BBC – Golden prize for Human Traffic | access-date=23 April 2008 | date=4 October 1999 |work=BBC News }}{{cite web |url=http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23393642-details/London,+four+years+after+28+days+later/article.do |title=This is London – 28 Weeks Later |access-date=23 April 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080422075142/http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/showbiz/article-23393642-details/London%2C%2Bfour%2Byears%2Bafter%2B28%2Bdays%2Blater/article.do |archive-date=22 April 2008 }} It is also referenced in Mars Attacks!{{cite web|url=http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/m/mars-attacks-script-transcript-burton.html|title=Mars Attacks Script – Dialogue Transcript|access-date=4 June 2008|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080704082300/http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/m/mars-attacks-script-transcript-burton.html|archive-date=4 July 2008}}

It was announced on 15 October 2008 that the BBC is to move the filming shows such as Casualty and Crimewatch to studios in Cardiff.{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7672479.stm |work=BBC News | title=BBC evicts top shows from London | date=15 October 2008 | access-date=12 May 2010}} and confirmed on 27 March 2009 that filming would be begin in 2011.{{Cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/cardiff-news/2009/03/27/casualty-on-the-way-to-cardiff-now-it-s-official-91466-23243435/|title=Casualty on the way to Cardiff – now it's official|date=29 March 2013|work = Wales Online|first = Martin|last =Shipton}}

In 2010, Cardiff was used for filming of a contemporary update of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock, and for a remake of Upstairs, Downstairs.

In 2012, Cardiff was the filming location of new MTV reality show The Valleys. The reality caused controversy and Welsh viewers were angered with the way the Welsh were stereotyped. The reality show takes young hopefuls from The Valleys and move them to Cardiff to pursue their dream careers. The show also shows the cast binge drinking, fighting, having casual sex and revealing themselves.

The BBC 2 quiz Only Connect is produced in Cardiff.{{Cite web|url=http://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/cardiff-filmed-quiz-takes-leap-bbc-7653974|title = Cardiff-filmed quiz takes the leap from BBC Four to BBC Two|date = 21 August 2014}}

References

External links

[http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/tvlicensing/rtsl/743.htm Capital TV]
[http://www.ofcom.org.uk/static/reception_advice/regions/rsl_transmitters.asp-itv_region_id=11.html Capital TV information]

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