Recent reports that S4C is facing cuts to its future government grant of as much as 24% over a four year period are worrying but as yet unconfirmed.
While this is just speculation at the moment, if these cut have to be made, S4C must ensure that the quality and standard of Welsh language programming are not affected. S4C need to make efficiencies in backroom functions to limit cuts in what we, the viewers, see on the channel. S4C must look at cuts in management and senior staff salaries as some of the pay in the higher echelons are out of touch with people living in the real world.
Undoubtedly, Plaid Cymru will kick and scream calling this an attack on the Welsh language, however, people who do not live in ‘financial fantasy land’ will accept that cut will have to be made in every department given Labour’s shambolic mismanagement of our economy and finances over the last 13 years.
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How can the quality and standard not be effected by a 24% cut?
If this is going to be how you defend services (i.e. supporting massive cuts that haven’t even been announced) then I hope you get the kicking in the polls you deserve.
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Jobs for middle class welsh speakers, The time has come for them to go into the night along with tales of corruption they have been behind events if the truth be told which have shaped Welsh political landscape of wales, not for the better of the working class.
Cutting a quarter of the budget of a TV channel cannot be absorbed by just slimming down management and fees! It is bound to reduce both the quality and quantity of programming and to say otherwise shows a worrying level of lack of understanding, for a politician.
This will damage the coverrage of the Welsh language in Wales and no amount of blaming others will hide that fact.