One of a gallery of BBC Cymru Wales idents available on the About the BBC website.
This weekend BBC Cymru Wales marks 50 years of TV broadcasting with special programmes documenting its history and highlighting some of the people who have made an appearance.
Today, Director of BBC Cymru Wales Rhodri Talfan Davies has written for Wales Online, celebrating the milestone. We've included an extract from the complete article below.
"It was on February 9, 1964 that a small team of engineers gathered below the new Wenvoe transmitter just outside Cardiff and switched on Wales’ first national TV channel. It was arguably the most important milestone in Welsh broadcasting since the very first radio broadcasts back in the 1920s.
At one level, the creation of BBC Wales simply answered a technical problem. Until that point, broadcasts on what we now know as BBC One Wales were shared between Wales and the west of England.
It meant viewers in Carmarthenshire were regularly treated to the latest local news from Shepton Mallet."
Read the rest of the article on Wales Online
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