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3 unusual facts about Media of Wales


Media of Wales

BBC Wales produces the most-watched Welsh news programme BBC Wales Today, current affairs programme Week In Week Out, sports coverage in Scrum V and Sport Wales, science-fiction programmes including Doctor Who and Torchwood, and factual programmes such as X-Ray.

Since the 1970s, there has been a decline in the number of Fleet Street newspaper journalists based in Wales; now all national UK newspapers rely on the Press Association reporter in Wales.

A Welsh-language daily newspaper, Y Byd ("The World"), was planned to launch in Spring 2007, but it failed to publish due to a lack of funding.



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