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As the capital of Wales, Media in Cardiff plays a large role in the city and nationwide. Cardiff is the largest media sector in the United Kingdom outside of London and it is produced mainly in English and Welsh. .[1] 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%).[1]

Press

Thomson House - Offices of the South Wales Echo and Western Mail

Cardiff's daily tabloid newspaper is the South Wales Echo, founded in 1884 and based in Thomson House 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.[2] 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.[3]

The Cardiff edition of Metro is available daily on public transport in the city and around South Wales.[4] Both the South Wales Echo and Metro publish daily information for the city such as the weather and entertainment listings.

Gair rhydd is the award winning weekly tabloid published by the students of Cardiff University and is available free in the Cardiff University Students' Union.[5]

Cardiff County Council publishes the monthly Capital Times, and the Cardiff Post 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.[6][7]

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

Television

All of Wales' national broadcasters are based in Cardiff. BBC Wales has its studios in Llandaff, ITV Wales has its studios in Culverhouse Cross and S4C has its headquarters in Llanishen.

The city also has its own Ofcom-licensed local television channel, Capital TV which is based on Penarth Road and broadcasts 24/7 across Cardiff on analogue Channel 49. [8]

Radio

The Red Dragon Centre contains the studios of Red Dragon FM and Xfm

Likewise the national radio broadcaster, BBC Wales, is based in the capital. It broadcasts BBC Radio Wales and Radio Cymru across Wales. However Cardiff's local radio stations are Red Dragon FM (103.2 MHz) and Xfm South Wales (106.8MHz), both based in the Red Dragon Centre in Cardiff Bay and play contemporary music. Xfm plays mainly forms of rock music. The regional station, Real Radio (105.4 MHz), also broadcasts from north west Cardiff.

Radio Cardiff (98.7 MHz) is based the Butetown area and plays music of black origin. Additionally, Radio Glamorgan is based in Heath and Xpress Radio is broadcast from Cardiff University Students' Union.[9][10][11]

Institutions

The Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies is based at Cardiff University.[12]

Use in media

Roald Dahl Plass, outside the Millennium Centre, acts as the exterior of the hub in the series Torchwood

Cardiff is the filming location and/or setting for many mainstream television programmes such as Torchwood, Doctor Who, Gavin and Stacey and Caerdydd, and for films such as Human Traffic, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain and 28 Weeks Later.[13][14][15][16].

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "The Film, TV and Multimedia Sector in Cardiff" (PDF). Economic Development Division, Cardiff County Council. 2003-12-01. Retrieved 2008-01-17.
  2. ^ ""Wikipedia - South Wales Echo"". Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  3. ^ ""Wikipedia - Western Mail"". Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  4. ^ ""Metro - Britain's first urban national newspaper"". Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  5. ^ ""About Gair Rhydd"". Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  6. ^ ""Capital Times"". Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  7. ^ ""Y Dinesydd"". Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  8. ^ ""Capital TV"". Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  9. ^ ""Radio Cardiff"". Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  10. ^ ""Radio Glamorgan - About Us"". Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  11. ^ ""Xpress Radio"". Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  12. ^ ""Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies"". Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  13. ^ ""Times - Why Wales is suddenly cool"". Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  14. ^ ""BBC - Golden prize for Human Traffic"". Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  15. ^ ""Wikipedia - The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain"". Retrieved 2008-04-23.
  16. ^ ""This is London - 28 Weeks Later"". Retrieved 2008-04-23.
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