Television
All of Wales' national broadcasters are based in Cardiff. BBC Wales has its headquarters in Broadcasting House Cardiff, Llandaff, ITV Cymru Wales has its studios in Culverhouse Cross and S4C has its headquarters in Llanishen.
Between 2002 and 2009 Capital TV served the city, a locally based free-to-air analogue terrestrial television station operating on a Restricted Service Licence. It broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on UHF channel 49. The signal has been independently verified to reach approximately 220,000 viewers across the city. It broadcast local news, local features and documentaries, movies, local band performances, productions made by local media colleges and programming made by young people under educational training at Media4Group – the majority shareholder.
Capital TV Cardiff was initially developed by the Cardiff-based production company Merlin Broadcast Ltd and won the contest for the Cardiff licence in 1998. It was allocated the lowest transmitter power and the lowest antenna height of any local station in the UK. Worse still, because of frequency clashes with an ITV relay mast, Capital TV was not allowed to broadcast a full service until 2005 – by which time digital terrestrial television had become commonplace. Unlike the BBC, ITV and S4C; Capital TV received no public funding. The company decided to relinquish its analogue Local TV broadcasting licence in 2009 as this was due to expire in October that year as part of the switchover to digital.
The city also has its own Ofcom-licensed local digital television spectrum, owned by Cube Interactive.
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—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)
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—Clive James (b. 1939)
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—Peter Ustinov (b. 1921)