| Runtime: | 30 minutes (main bulletin) |
| Country: | United Kingdom (Wales) |
| Presenter: | Bethan Rhys Roberts Rhodri Llywelyn (Main anchors) |
| Channel: | BBC One Wales (1971–1982) S4C (1982–present) |
| Last Aired: | present |
| Location: | New Broadcasting House, Cardiff, Wales |
| Language: | Welsh |
| Related: | Wales Today Ffeil |
Newyddion S4C (S4C News) is a Welsh-language news programme broadcast on S4C and produced by BBC Cymru Wales, covering national and international news stories from a Welsh perspective.
Welsh-language television news on the BBC first aired on 6pm on 16 March 1956. Under the name Tele-Newyddion, this fifteen-minute bulletin was broadcast as an opt-out in the Wenvoe, Sutton Coldfield and Holme Moss transmitters, in the style of a newsreel, presenting news items from the past weeks at the time of broadcast.[1]
Before S4C started broadcasting in November 1982, Newyddion was seen as a five-minute regional opt-out programme on BBC One, usually broadcast around 7:00 pm,[2] where it replaced programmes in the schedule such as Tomorrow's World.[3] The first Newyddion on BBC One Wales was broadcast on 2 August 1971 at 18:55[4] with the last BBC One Wales bulletin seen on 29 October 1982 at 7:00pm, as S4C launched the following Monday.[5] In addition to the five-minute bulletin, there was a longer programme, Heddiw.
When S4C was being created, both BBC Cymru Wales and HTV Wales bid for the provision of a news service. In 1981 HTV withdrew from the bid, causing BBC Cymru Wales to win by default.[6]
In 2020, S4C launched a digital version of the Newyddion service, employing its own journalists and producing original stories, that would be repackaged for the television bulletin.[6]
The main evening programme (branded Welsh: Newyddion) is broadcast each weekday evening at 7:30pm with shorter editions airing throughout the day and at varying times on Saturday and Sunday evenings.
Five-minute updates are broadcast at midday, mid-afternoon (2pm, 3pm), and evenings (8:55pm)
Dewi Llwyd, who presented the programme for almost 30 years, was dropped from the presentation team in 2013.[7]
S4C weather forecasts are now broadcast in the news programme after BBC Cymru Wales moved into its new headquarters in Central Square, Cardiff.
Welsh: Newyddion won the 2012 BAFTA Cymru Award for News Coverage for a special programme broadcast from New York to mark the tenth anniversary of the 11 September 2001 attacks.[8]
At the 2013 BAFTA Welsh: Cymru|italic=no Awards ceremony Welsh: Newyddion was mistakenly awarded the News Coverage award. The award was later correctly presented to ITV Cymru Wales.[9]
At the 2015 BAFTA Welsh: Cymru|italic=no Awards Welsh: Newyddion 9 was awarded the News Coverage Award for a special programme on the Paris Attacks.
They also won the News Coverage Award at the 2016 BAFTA Welsh: Cymru|italic=no awards for a programme about the refugee crisis.
Viewing figures for Welsh: Newyddion ranged at one time from 180,000 to 250,000 according to S4C's weekly ratings report.[10]