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Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Culture @cujournmedcul.bsky.social · 16h

Writing for @uk.theconversation.com, @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social, @maxwellmodell.bsky.social and @perkinskeighley.bsky.social outline what viewers complain to Ofcom and the BBC about most 👇

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Bob Vylan Glastonbury complaints upheld: here’s what viewers complain to Ofcom and the BBC about most

The vast majority of audience complaints are not upheld by the BBC or by Ofcom.

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 1d

S4C’s chief executive called for increased visibility for Welsh content on online platforms in his opening address at the Wales Screen Summit 2025

S4C Chief Executive calls on governments and tech companies to promote ‘discoverability’ of Welsh content to protect ‘future of our culture’

S4C’s chief executive called for increased visibility for Welsh content on online platforms in his opening address at the Wales Screen Summit 2025. Geraint Evans told the premier conference for the fi...

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Jamie Medhurst 📺📻🎞✝ @jimbomed.bsky.social · 9d

Gobeithio dy fod yn teimlo'n well erbyn hyn, Huw.

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Will Hayward - Wales Journo @willhaycardiff.bsky.social · 10d

Reform UK are pushing immigration hard as an issue in the Caerphilly by-election.

Just for context, Caerphilly has the THE LOWEST, immigration rate of all Wales' 22 councils.

97.1% of people there were born in the UK.

Only Cardiff and Newport have move that 10% born overseas.

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Jamie Medhurst 📺📻🎞✝ @jimbomed.bsky.social · 15d

Pob dymuniad da a gwellhad buan, Huw!

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NationCymru @nation.cymru · 21d

A new exhibition has opened at the National Library of Wales to mark sixty years since the flooding of the Tryweryn valley to create a reservoir for Liverpool

Art and photography exhibition marks 60 years since the drowning of Tryweryn

A new exhibition has opened at the National Library of Wales to mark sixty years since the flooding of the Tryweryn valley to create a reservoir for Liverpool. The TRYWERYN 60 exhibition brings togeth...

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Jamie Medhurst 📺📻🎞✝ @jimbomed.bsky.social · 29d

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Jamie Medhurst 📺📻🎞✝ @jimbomed.bsky.social · Sep 4

Homepage | Radio and Newspapers Conference 2026

Radio and Newspapers: What Intersections for Media History?

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Jamie Medhurst 📺📻🎞✝ @jimbomed.bsky.social · Sep 4

Yn falch iawn o gael f'apwyntio i Is-Banel 34 FfRhY 2029 - edrych 'mlaen!

Very pleased to have been appointed to REF Sub-Panel 34 (Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management) and look forward to working with colleagues.

Main Panel D – Arts and Humanities – REF 2029

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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · Aug 26

A little reminder for everyone, particularly our friends in the Labour government:

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Huw Marshall 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @huwmarshall.substack.com · Aug 26

I wrote this yesterday, seems even more important today... talkingwales.co.uk?p=1095&amp=1

Our news is broken - Talking Wales

And we have a plan to fix it. I’m back from a two-week family holiday in France, and it was also a partial two-week break from the news. As a desk-based news junkie, I’m constantly consuming news via ...

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Jamie Medhurst 📺📻🎞✝ @jimbomed.bsky.social · Aug 12

Diolch i'r Cymmrodorion am y cyfle i draethu at un o'm hoff bynciau fis Ionawr nesaf (68 mlynedd ar ôl i TWW ddarlledu am y tro cyntaf).

Thank you to the Cymmrodorion for the opportunity to speak about one of my favourite topics next January (68 years after TWW went on air for the first time).

Events Archive - The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion

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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · Aug 11

Letter of the day (in the Times)

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David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social · Aug 11

And the website also features extended interview with two other big figures in BBC children's TV - Edward Barnes and Joy Whitby - who both have things to say about Biddy Baxter:

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David Hendy @davidhendy.bsky.social · Aug 11

You can watch the full 47-minute 2010 interview with Biddy Baxter talking about her life and TV career - complete with transcript - here at the 'Connected Histories of the BBC' site created at @sussex.ac.uk

connectedhistoriesofthebbc.org/play/?id=418

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · Aug 7

Reposting this from LinkedIn news.sky.com/story/if-the...

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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · Aug 7

‘Trump and Jeffrey were extremely close’ says Epstein’s brother

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‘Trump and Jeffrey were extremely close’ says Epstein’s brother

In Washington the Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues to dominate the news agenda - no matter how many times the President denounces it as a 'hoax'.

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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · Aug 7

OTD in early British television

You can sense from Alexandra Palace’s schedules that August was the cruellest month for those running the service in 1938 and 1939 (and remember that Television shut down for three weeks in 1937).

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OTD in early British television: 7 August 1939 - Illuminations

John Wyver writes: You can sense from Alexandra Palace’s schedules that August was the cruellest month for those running the service in 1938 and 1939 (and remember that Television shut down for three ...

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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · Aug 1

OTD in early British television

In the weeks just after The Man with the Flower in his Mouth, John Logie Baird’s campaign to extend awareness of the potential of television next took to the stage of the London Coliseum.

OTD in early British television: 1 August 1930 - Illuminations

John Wyver writes: In the weeks just after The Man with the Flower in his Mouth (see earlier post), John Logie Baird’s campaign to extend awareness of the potential of television next took to the stag...

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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · Jul 31

OTD in early British television

The late-night 45-minute broadcast in the BBC’s low-definition television service on Wednesday 31 July 1935 promised ‘an illustrated natural history talk’.

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OTD in early British television: 31 July 1935 - Illuminations

John Wyver writes: The late-night 45-minute broadcast in the BBC’s low-definition television service on Wednesday 31 July 1935 promised ‘an illustrated natural history talk’. And indeed the Zoological...

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Jamie Medhurst 📺📻🎞✝ @jimbomed.bsky.social · Jul 30

Good to see that public service broadcasters still play a part in peoples' viewing habits in Wales with a very slight increase in viewing time since 2023 and that increasing numbers of young people/young adults are listening to BBC Radio Cymru.

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Jamie Medhurst 📺📻🎞✝ @jimbomed.bsky.social · Jul 30

Da gweld bod darlledu cyhoeddus (PSB) yn dal ei dir yng Nghymru gyda chynnydd bach o amser gwylio ers 2023. A nifer cynyddol o bobl ifainc yn gwrando ar BBC Radio Cymru.

Jamie Medhurst 📺📻🎞✝ @jimbomed.bsky.social · Jul 30

www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-an...

Tuning into YouTube: UK’s media habits revealed

YouTube is leading the charge in the streaming takeover of TV sets, with the service now the first place younger viewers go as soon as they switch on, according to Ofcom’s annual report on the nation’...

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Jamie Medhurst 📺📻🎞✝ @jimbomed.bsky.social · Jul 30

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Gwylio YouTube yng Nghymru nawr ar yr un lefel ag ITV Cymru Wales, fel y datgelodd arferion cyfryngau Cymru

Mae YouTube bellach ar yr un lefel â'r darlledwr ITV Cymru Wales o ran gwylio cynnwys fideo gyda'r ddau wasanaeth yn cyflawni 12 y cant o wylio yn y cartref ac yn gwneud YouTube y platfform rhannu fid...

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