22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Panel 4 - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda 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…
22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Panel 3 - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r BBC
Mmm-hmm.
22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Panel 3 - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r BBC
I understand that, and that's fair. My point is a different one; it's about the quality of storytelling.
22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Panel 3 - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r BBC
Sure.
22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Panel 3 - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r BBC
You pop in the office every now and again, don't you?
22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Panel 3 - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r 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…
22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Panel 3 - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r BBC
My question was about news, though—that's a very different point to news.
22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Panel 3 - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r BBC
I've sat close to you in an England-Wales rugby match, I fully know your cultural biases.
22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Panel 3 - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r BBC
I agree.
22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Panel 3 - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r BBC
The floor is yours.
22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Panel 3 - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r 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…
22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Panel 3 - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r 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.
22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Panel 3 - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r 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…
22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Panel 3 - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r 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…
22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Panel 3 - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r BBC
Not half, there isn't.
22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Panel 3 - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r 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.
22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Panel 3 - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r BBC
And yet you're spending half on us what you're spending on Scotland. How do you justify that?
22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Panel 3 - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r 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.
22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Panel 3 - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r BBC
I agree. It's a big deal. Good. Diolch.
22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Panel 3 - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r BBC
Okay.
22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Panel 3 - Sesiwn dystiolaeth gyda'r 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.
22 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Cyflwyniad, ymddiheuriadau a dirprwyon
Yes, I declare that my son is a BBC apprentice.
21 Ionawr 2026 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl Fer: Yr angen am gynllun cenedlaethol i wella gwasanaethau syndrom Tourette
Bydd rhieni plant â syndrom Tourette's yn aml yn dweud wrthych fod eu plant yn ei cholli hi ar ôl dod adref o'r ysgol—nid yw ffrwydradau o ddicter a thrais yn anghyffredin. 'Ond roeddent yn iawn drwy'r dydd', bydd athro neu berthynas yn dweud, ond ychydig a…
21 Ionawr 2026 , Cyfarfod Llawn
Dadl Fer: Yr angen am gynllun cenedlaethol i wella gwasanaethau syndrom Tourette
Diolch, Ddirprwy Lywydd. Rwyf wedi cytuno i roi munud o amser i John Griffiths, Carolyn Thomas, Mabon ap Gwynfor a Mark Isherwood. Mae syndrom Tourette yn gyflwr cymhleth sy'n cael ei gamddeall, ac eto mae'n gyflwr cyffredin. Anhwylder ar yr ymennydd ydyw…
15 Ionawr 2026 , Culture, Communications, Welsh Language, Sport, and International Relations Committee
Darlledu gwasanaeth cyhoeddus yng Nghymru: Sesiwn dystiolaeth gydag academyddion
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…
