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BBC Wales Headquarters Building
BBC Cymru Wales New Broadcasting House, previously known as the BBC Cymru Wales headquarters building, is the headquarters of BBC Cymru Wales in Central Square, Cardiff. It operates many of its broadcasting services (radio and TV) from there using IP-based studios. It also serves as a base for S4C. The £120 million building replaced the BBC Cymru Wales Broadcasting House in Llandaff, when 1,000 production and support staff began moving into the new facility in October 2019. The building is officially located at 3 Central Square, but has also been referred to as BBC New Broadcasting House. Operation The building's first live transmission was made on 14 July 2020 by continuity announcer Tim Cooper on BBC Two Wales. Continuity announcer-director Leanne Thomas introduced the Six O'Clock News on BBC One Wales for the first time on 15 July. This was followed by the first radio broadcasts - by BBC Radio Cymru 2 host Daniel Glyn on 25 July and BBC Radio Wales host Owen Money ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High-tech Architecture
High-tech architecture, also known as structural expressionism, is a type of late modernist architecture that emerged in the 1970s, incorporating elements of high tech industry and technology into building design. High-tech architecture grew from the modernist style, utilizing new advances in technology and building materials. It emphasizes transparency in design and construction, seeking to communicate the underlying structure and function of a building throughout its interior and exterior. High-tech architecture makes extensive use of aluminium, steel, glass, and to a lesser extent concrete (the technology for which had developed earlier), as these materials were becoming more advanced and available in a wider variety of forms at the time the style was developing – generally, advancements in a trend towards lightness of weight. High-tech architecture focuses on creating adaptable buildings through choice of materials, internal structural elements, and programmatic design. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central Square, Cardiff
Central Square () is a large public space in Cardiff, Wales, adjacent to Cardiff Central railway station and included Cardiff Central bus station between 1954 and 2015. It was redeveloped and extended in the late 2010s and early 2020s. History Until the 1930s an area of terraced housing, churches and shops, named Temperance Town, Cardiff, Temperance Town, occupied the current site of Central Square. As a result, due to its legal history, Central Square is now one of a few areas in Cardiff designated an alcohol control zone, allowing the police to confiscate alcohol (drug), alcohol. Between 1932 and 1934, the Great Western Railway replaced the original 1850s station building (also designed by their architect's department) with a new Art Deco building faced in Portland stone, enclosing a booking hall with noted Art Deco light fittings, all topped by a clock cupola. The Great Western Railway has its full name carved onto the façade (larger than the name of the station). During th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BREEAM
The Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM), first published by the Building Research Establishment in 1990, is touted as the world's longest established method of identifying the sustainability of buildings. Around 550,000 buildings have been "BREEAM-certified". Additionally, two million homes have registered for certification globally. BREEAM also has a tool which focuses on neighbourhood development. Purpose BREEAM is an assessment undertaken by independent licensed assessors using scientifically-based sustainability metrics and indices which cover a range of environmental issues. Its categories evaluate energy and water use, health and wellbeing, pollution, transport, materials, waste, ecology and management processes. Buildings are rated and certified on a scale of "Pass", "Good", "Very Good", "Excellent" and "Outstanding". It was created to educate home owners and designers of benefits involved in taking its approach, which has a long ter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Llanishen
Llanishen (, ''llan'' church + ''Isien'' Saint Isan) is a district and community in the north of Cardiff, Wales. Its population as of the 2011 census was 17,417. Llanishen is the home of the former HMRC tax offices, the tallest buildings in north Cardiff and a landmark for miles around. The office complex overlooks the Crystal and Fishguard estates, the Parc Tŷ Glas industrial estate, Llanishen village, leafy suburban roads and parks that constitute the district. Llanishen is also home to a leisure centre and the former Llanishen Reservoir, which is connected to a green corridor which bisects the city. History Originally wooded farm land, in A.D. 535 two monks came eastwards from the small religious settlement of Llandaff, aiming to establish new settlements, or "llans", in the land below Caerphilly Mountain. With fresh water from the Nant Fawr stream, one of the monks, Isan, founded his llan on the site of the modern day Oval Park. In 1089 at the Battle of the Heath, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newyddion
''Newyddion S4C'' (''S4C News'') is a Welsh language, Welsh-language news programme broadcast on S4C and produced by BBC Cymru Wales, covering national and international news stories from a Welsh perspective. History Welsh-language television news on the BBC first aired on 6pm on 16 March 1956. Under the name ''Tele-Newyddion'', this fifteen-minute bulletin was broadcast as an opt-out on the Wenvoe transmitting station, Wenvoe, Sutton Coldfield transmitting station, Sutton Coldfield and Holme Moss transmitting station, Holme Moss transmitters, in the style of a newsreel, presenting news items from the past weeks at the time of broadcast. Before S4C started broadcasting in November 1982, the BBC's main Welsh-language TV news programme was ''Heddiw'' (''Today''), which ran from 1961 to 1982. Initially shown in a lunchtime slot on certain transmitters around the UK, in later years, ''Heddiw'' moved to an early-evening slot in Wales following ''Nationwide (TV programme), Nationwid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Money
Lynn Mittell MBE (born 16 May 1947), better known by the stage name Owen Money, is a British musician, actor, comedian, and radio presenter from Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. Early life Mittell was born in Merthyr Tydfil at the Royal Oak pub, where his mother, Tydfil, and father, James Lyons, were publicans. The family would later run the Bee Hive pub in Merthyr. Mittell would later follow his parents into the publican business, owning the Silver Slipper pub on Pant Road in Merthyr. Mittell later owned The LA (formerly the Hafod Inn) in Swansea, in response to why the name was changed, Mittell quipped that LA stood for "Lower 'Afod". By 1989, Mittell owned The Whittington Arms in Tonna, which he continued to run alongside his entertainment career. Music career Mittell was bassist of Merthyr Tydfil-based band The Crescendos, who amalgamated with another Merthyr band, The Rebels, to form The Bystanders in 1962. Mittell changed his name to Gerry Braden, and became lead singer in a lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Radio Wales
BBC Radio Wales is a Wales, Welsh national radio station owned and operated by BBC Cymru Wales, a division of the BBC. It began broadcasting on 13 November 1978, replacing the Welsh opt-out service of BBC Radio 4. As of August 2022, the station's managing editor is Carolyn Hitt, who is also editor of BBC Wales Sport. Radio Wales is broadcast in English, whilst sister network BBC Radio Cymru, Radio Cymru broadcasts in Welsh language, Welsh. According to RAJAR, BBC Radio Wales has a weekly audience of 348,000 listeners and a listening share of 5.5%, as of March 2024. History In November 1978, BBC Radio Wales launched on the former Radio 4 opt-out frequency of 882 kHz. Initially the station broadcast for only twenty hours per week, and relayed output from BBC Radio 2, Radio 2 and Radio 4 at other times. However, the groundwork had been laid for the station to gradually become a full-time service and now Radio Wales broadcasts for up to twenty hours a day. BBC Radio Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Radio Cymru 2
BBC Radio Cymru 2 is a Welsh language radio station owned and operated by BBC Cymru Wales, a division of the BBC. It broadcasts across Wales on DAB, digital TV and BBC Sounds. Radio Cymru 2 broadcasts music-led programming for up to 60 hours a week, as an opt-out from the main BBC Radio Cymru service, which provides shared programming at certain hours of the day. The station also simulcasts overnight programming from BBC Radio 2 after closedown. The managing editor of BBC Radio Cymru is Dafydd Meredydd, a former presenter and producer for both stations. History On 19 September 2016, BBC Cymru launched a pop-up radio station, (Radio Cymru More), broadcasting for three months in the run-up to Radio Cymru's 40th anniversary. Consisting of five hours of music-led entertainment programming each weekday, Radio Cymru Mwy was available on DAB in south east Wales and online. Six months after the station closed, BBC Cymru announced it would launch a permanent second station, Radio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC One Wales
BBC One Wales is a Welsh free-to-air television channel owned and operated by BBC Cymru Wales. It is the Welsh variation of the UK-wide BBC One network and is broadcast from Central Square in Cardiff. History and operation The first television signals in Wales came on 15 August 1952 from the newly constructed Wenvoe transmitter. The transmitter itself broadcast the national BBC Television service. Programming either for Wales or in the Welsh language was initially restricted. In 1956, a newsreel was broadcast at 6pm on the Wenvoe and adjacent Holme Moss and Sutton Coldfield transmitters, ''Tele-Newyddion'', at 6pm, which at the time was during the period of the Toddlers' Truce which restricted television broadcasts between 6 and 7pm. Some of the items included in the bulletin were from a few weeks prior to production and broadcast. Wales would gain some significance when, in 1957, the BBC West region from Bristol was established including a daily five-minute news bulletin f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crimewatch Live
''Crimewatch Live'' (previously known as ''Crimewatch Roadshow Live'' or simply ''Crimewatch Roadshow'' and originally as ''Crimewatch Daily'') is a British television programme produced by BBC Studios Documentary Unit Cymru Wales, that reconstructs major unsolved crimes in order to gain information from the public which may assist in solving them. The programme is broadcast on BBC One. History 2000–2001: ''Crimewatch Daily'' First aired on 27 November 2000, ''Crimewatch Daily'' was the initial daily version of the original ''Crimewatch'' programme, aired between 10:00 and 11:00am on weekday mornings, that appealed for help with unsolved cases not covered in the main programme. Broadcast from a specially designed studio at New Scotland Yard, the series was presented by Phil Gayle and Jane Moore. Two further series aired throughout 2001, before the final edition was broadcast on 7 December 2001. 2009–2020: ''Crimewatch Roadshow'' First broadcast on 1 June 2009, ''Crimewat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Wales Today
''BBC Wales Today'' is the BBC's national television news programme for Wales, broadcast on BBC One Wales from the headquarters of BBC Cymru Wales in Central Square, Cardiff. According to the BBC, it is the world's longest-running television news programme. The programme can be watched in any part of the UK (and Europe) on digital satellite channel 972 on the BBC UK regional TV on satellite service. Selected video packages from the programme are available on the BBC news website. History The programme began at 6:10 pm on Monday 17 September 1962. Its predecessor, a short ''News from Wales'' bulletin, started in 1957 and was originally presented by Michael Aspel. The new programme, originally presented by Brian Hoey, shared a 25-minute timeslot for regional news with '' Points West'' from Bristol – at the time, both programmes were broadcast to Wales and the West of England from the Wenvoe transmitter near Cardiff. By February 1964, two new television regions, BBC Wal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy Owen
Lucy Owen (born 18 June 1971 as Lucy Jane Cohen) is a Welsh television news reader. Early life Born 18 June 1971, in Llandaff, Owen attended Howell's School in Llandaff, Cardiff, and graduated from Royal Holloway, University of London, in English. She is of Jewish heritage. Career Owen began her broadcasting career at BBC Radio Wales as a researcher, later progressing to a reporting and co-presenting role for a features programme. She joined HTV Wales in 1995 as a newsreader for regional opt-outs during GMTV, and between 1996 and 2007, she co-presented ''Wales Tonight'', the regional news programme on ITV Wales, broadcast from Cardiff. Owen presented on the now defunct ITV News Channel, and was also seen anchoring the main ITV News: ''Lunchtime News'', ''Evening News'' and ''Weekend News''. Owen signed off from her last edition of ''Wales Tonight'' on Friday 19 October 2007. From 5 November 2007, Owen began presenting the BBC Wales evening news programme ''BBC Wales Today' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
