She also appeared on the Welsh-language channel S4C's 'Diva's' Concert conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes.

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The UK Government is handing over part of the responsibility for funding the Welsh-language channel to the BBC.

BBC: S4C headquarters in Cardiff

There's an unusual joint session of the Welsh Affairs and Culture, Media and Sport Committees for a joint pre-appointment hearing with Huw Jones, the preferred candidate for new Chair of S4C, the Welsh language TV channel which was brought under the BBC's organisational umbrella after running into financial difficulties.

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After Gwynfor Evans threatened to starve himself to death, the government agreed to create a Welsh-language television channel.

BBC: Wales politics

Brittany has switched on to its own television channel, thanks to Welsh helping hands.

BBC: Brittany joins Celtic TV first

Channel bosses took advice from Welsh broadcaster S4C on catering for an audience which speaks a minority language.

BBC: Brittany joins Celtic TV first

The letter also urged the UK government to channel funding through a "new and accountable multi-media Welsh media commission" that could "sustain a national culture and help steer media development in Wales flexibly in a period of vital change across traditional and new media".

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But ex- Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Lord German said the scheme came with enormous costs to the environment and was a Bristol Channel barrage than a Severn estuary one.

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