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href="special-offers-rts-wales-members">Read More</a><br clear="left"/> <br/> <span style="color: #000000; font-size: 1.2em;">Ofcom Sceptical about Local TV</span><br/><img src="/web/20141008235538im_/http://www.rts.org.uk/sites/default/files/Wales/MadeInCardiff.jpg" width="200" height="91" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 12px;"/>With Made in Cardiff due to launch on October 15th, media regulator Ofcom has admitted it is "very unlikely" that all local TV stations it is licensing will succeed, following the pre-launch collapse of Birmingham's TV venture, and the travails of London Live.<br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141008235538/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/sep/15/unlikely-local-tv-stations-succeed-ofcom-london-live">Read More</a> from The Guardian<br/> </p> <p><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 1.2em;">Help Financing your Project</span><br/>For our September event, Elin Morris and Huw Marshall explained how <strong>S4C's Digital Fund</strong> is operated.  The Fund supports the creation or development of digital content, products and services primarily in the Welsh language, which have the potential to generate a commercial return.<br/>Download the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141008235538/http://www.s4c.co.uk/production/downloads/e_digital_fund_guidelines.doc">Investment Guidelines</a> from S4C (Word doc, 67.5kB)<br/>That was on September 25th at Tiger Tiger, Cardiff.<br/> </p> <p><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 1.2em;"></span></p> <p><img src="/web/20141008235538im_/http://www.rts.org.uk/sites/default/files/Wales/RonJones3.jpg" alt="Ron Jones, Tinopolis" title="Ron Jones, Tinopolis" style="width: 225px; height: 180px; float: right; margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 0px;"/><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 1.2em;">Eisteddfod Event - Tinopolis</span><br/> Our annual Welsh-language event this year was a conversation between Ron Jones, Executive Chairman of Tinopolis (right), and RTS Wales Chair, Tim Hartley.<br/> It was a joint event with Cardiff University, on their stand on the Maes in Llanelli on the afternoon of August 5th.<br/><a href="cyfweliad-ron-jones-tinopolis-wales">Darllenwch Mwy</a> yn Events<br/><a href="ron-jones-tinopolis-wales">Read More</a> in Reports</p> <p><strong>News:</strong>  Tinopolis could the be the next UK independent producer to be sold.  The Welsh company is understood to have held talks with MSD Capital, the venture capital firm chaired by computer entrepreneur Michael Dell, and Entertainment One, the Canadian film and TV company that is listed on the London Stock Exchange.<br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141008235538/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/aug/28/question-time-producer-tinopolis-michael-dell-entertainment-one">Read More</a> from The Guardian</p> <p> <br/><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 1.2em;">BBC Wales's New HQ Announced</span><br/> It will be built, subject to planning permission, in front of Cardiff Central Station, to be ready by 2018.<br/> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141008235538/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-27781784">Read More</a> from BBC Wales<br/> "What we need though is for the BBC to see that we don't want some kind of ivory tower, we don't want an iconic building for its own sake.  It's got to deliver better programming and more programming for the people of Wales, because that has actually been in  decline for the last ten years."<br/> RTS Wales Chair, Tim Hartley<br/>  </p> <p><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 1.2em;"><img src="/web/20141008235538im_/http://www.rts.org.uk/sites/default/files/Wales/Comux1S.jpg" alt="Comux UK" title="Comux UK" style="width: 260px; height: 195px; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 0px 8px;"/>Visit to Comux UK  (Local TV)</span><br/> We arranged a visit to the Comux Operations Centre in Birmingham on Thursday, 26th June.  This is the central transmission hub for the new  digital terrestrial television multiplex, that will bring local TV services to over 12 million households across the UK.<br/> (Photo by Fan Wang)<br/> There is a 7 min video available, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141008235538/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyrkbp7BgA4">Comux - This is local TV</a><br/> <a href="wales-visit-comux-uk">Read More</a> in Reports<br clear="right"/>  </p> <p><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 1.2em;">55 Years of the RTS in Wales!</span><br/> We were formed on the 10th April 1959 as RTS Cardiff and South Wales.  Our first Chairman was H.J. (Harry) Hockley, our Secretary D.M. (David) Thomas, and Treasurer P. (Peter) Fear.<br/> Here's to the next 55 years!<br/> (To tell the truth, we checked our archives too late to celebrate our 50th!)<br/>  </p> <p><span style="color: #000000; font-size: 1.2em;">Books and videos about Television in Wales</span><br/> We have added lists of relevant books and videos, including <a href="year-life-rts-wales"><em>A Year in the Life of the RTS in Wales</em></a>, to the site.<br/> Let us know if you can recommend any others.<br/> <a href="book-list-wales">Book List</a><br/> <a href="videos-wales-television">Video List</a><br/>  </p> <p><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Interested?  Take a look at our <a href="television-magazine">Television</a> magazine  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141008235538/http://www.rts.org.uk/membership">Join the RTS</a></span></p> <p> </p> </div> </div>  </div> </div></div>  <div class="region region-sidebar-first column sidebar"><div class="section"> <div id="block-taxinav-taxinav" class="block block-taxinav region-odd even region-count-1 count-4"> <h2 class="title"> </h2> <div class="content"> <ul><li class="0 first active"><a href="/web/20141008235538/http://www.rts.org.uk/latest-news-rts-wales" class="active">Latest News</a></li> <li class="1"><a href="/web/20141008235538/http://www.rts.org.uk/about-rts-wales-amdanom-ni">About</a></li> <li class="2"><a href="/web/20141008235538/http://www.rts.org.uk/awards-rts-wales-gwobrau">Awards</a></li> <li class="3"><a href="/web/20141008235538/http://www.rts.org.uk/events-rts-wales-digwyddiadau">Events</a></li> <li class="4"><a href="/web/20141008235538/http://www.rts.org.uk/reports-rts-wales-adroddiadau">Reports</a></li> <li class="5"><a href="/web/20141008235538/http://www.rts.org.uk/our-committee-rts-wales-ein-pwyllgor">Committee</a></li> <li class="6"><a href="/web/20141008235538/http://www.rts.org.uk/historic-dates-wales">Historic Dates</a></li> <li class="7 last"><a href="/web/20141008235538/http://www.rts.org.uk/links-wales-dolenni">Welsh Links</a></li> </ul> </div> </div>  </div></div>  </div></div>  <div id="footer"><div class="section"> <div class="region region-footer"> <div id="block-menu-menu-footer-block1" class="block block-menu region-odd even region-count-1 count-6"> <div class="content"> <ul class="menu"><li class="leaf first"><a href="/web/20141008235538/http://www.rts.org.uk/terms-use" title="">Terms of Use</a></li> <li class="leaf"><a href="/web/20141008235538/http://www.rts.org.uk/contact-details" title="">Contact Us</a></li> <li class="leaf"><a href="/web/20141008235538/http://www.rts.org.uk/privacy-policy-0" title="">Privacy Policy</a></li> <li class="leaf"><a href="/web/20141008235538/http://www.rts.org.uk/links-0" title="Links">Links</a></li> <li class="leaf last"><a href="/web/20141008235538/http://www.rts.org.uk/refund-policy" title="">Refund Policy</a></li> </ul> </div> </div>  <div id="block-follow-site" class="block block-follow region-even odd region-count-2 count-7"> <div class="content"> <div class="follow-links clear-block"><a class="follow-link follow-link-twitter follow-link-site" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141008235538/https://twitter.com/RTS_media" title="Follow Royal Television Society on Twitter">Twitter</a> <a class="follow-link follow-link-facebook follow-link-site" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141008235538/https://www.facebook.com/RoyalTelevisionSociety" title="Follow Royal Television Society on Facebook">Facebook</a> </div> </div> </div>  <div id="block-block-1" class="block block-block region-odd even region-count-3 count-8"> <div class="content"> <p>Registered charity 313728<br/> 漏 Royal Television Society, 2013. 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