BBC Cymru Wales Management Review 2012/13 MANAGEMENT REVIEW 2012/13 – WALES
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BBC Cymru Wales Management Review 2012/13 MANAGEMENT REVIEW 2012/13 – WALES Our sense of mission is clear: we’re here to help audiences discover and make sense of Wales – and to champion the best talent and boldest ideas for national and UK audiences. If you wish to find out more about the BBC’s year – including full financial statements and performance against other public commitments – then please visit www.bbc.co.uk/annualreport CONTENTS 01 DIRECTOR’S INTRODUCTION Front cover 02 TWO MINUTE SUMMARY Wales’ Jade Jones winning 04 SERVICE PERFORMANCE Britain’s first ever Olympic 11 LOOKING AHEAD taekwondo gold medal at the 13 KEY PRIORITIES FOR NEXT YEAR London 2012 Olympic Games. 14 CONTACTS 15 WALES MANAGEMENT Sourced from: Getty Allsport Management Review 2012/13 – Wales MANAGEMENT REVIEW 2012/13 – WALES DIRECTOR’S INTRODUCTION So was it Super Saturday or the moment a young woman ‘‘ In our 50th anniversary year, from Flint discovered she was the finest taekwondo competitor we’ll tackle all the challenges in the world? Perhaps picking a highlight from that summer of Olympic and we face with ambition and Paralympic sport rather misses the point. Everything seemed to click for a few magical weeks – and BBC Cymru Wales was rigour. And I’d once again like privileged to be at the heart of the action. to thank the brilliant teams There has been much to celebrate over the past year. Our interactive services are now accessed on almost three million both inside and outside BBC devices each and every week; our English language programmes on BBC One Wales and BBC Two Wales have attracted their Wales who continue to deliver biggest audiences in a decade; we’ve strengthened our journalism across all services; and we’ve made another record contribution outstanding output both for to BBC network drama from our new studios at Roath Lock. We’ve also been busy laying the foundations for future success Wales and the world.’’ – BBC One Wales HD has launched and both our national radio stations are now available on smartphones and tablets right across the UK via the BBC iPlayer Radio app. But the broadcast landscape is fast-changing and the challenges continue to come thick and fast. The latest census revealed the challenges of serving a rapidly evolving Welsh language audience; the restricted geographical coverage of both our national stations continues to frustrate listeners; the music dispute that disrupted our services in January needs to be resolved; and we want to ensure contemporary Wales is better reflected in our contribution to network programming. In our 50th anniversary year, we’ll tackle all the challenges we face with ambition and rigour. And I’d once again like to thank the brilliant teams both inside and outside BBC Wales who continue to deliver outstanding output both for Wales and the world. Rhodri Talfan Davies Director, BBC Cymru Wales Management Review 2012/13 – Wales 01 MANAGEMENT REVIEW 2012/13 – WALES TWO MINUTE SUMMARY Facts and figures about the performance and output of BBC Cymru Wales. Six Nations Audience appreciation 1.175 million people in Wales watching the final 90 (out of 100) Audience appreciation index minutes of the Wales v England Six Nations match for Iolo’s Great Welsh Parks. (across both BBC One and S4C). 1.175m 90 people in Wales watching Audience the Six Nations match appreciation index BBC Cymru Wales online Audience 2.71 million unique browsers access 5.375 million BBC One average audience BBC Cymru Wales’ websites each week. for Casualty. 5.375m 2.71m BBC One average unique browsers access audience for Casualty BBC Cymru Wales Approval of the BBC in Wales Television weekly reach (mean score out of 10) (based on 15-minute consecutive reach) (000s) Source: ART/Kantar Source: BARB General impression Value for money BBC Cymru Wales BBC Cymru Wales of the BBC of the licence fee English language television on S4C Management Review 2012/13 – Wales 02 MANAGEMENT REVIEW 2012/13 – WALES TWO MINUTE SUMMARY BBC Cymru Wales English language television BBC Cymru Wales on S4C Top Ten Series and Top Five Individual Programmes 2012/13 Top Ten Series and Top Five Individual Programmes 2012/13 BBC Cymru Wales English language series BBC Cymru Wales series on S4C Wales Today at 6.30pm 295,000 Y Clwb Rygbi (Pro12) 87,000 Police 24/7 280,000 Pobol y Cwm (Fri) 86,000 Iolo’s Great Welsh Parks 263,000 Pobol y Cwm (Tue) 83,000 Wales in a Year 238,000 Pobol y Cwm (Thu) 81,000 Weatherman Walking 231,000 Pobol y Cwm (Wed) 80,000 Coming Home 213,000 Pobol y Cwm (Mon) 75,000 X-Ray 209,000 Taro Naw 29,000 Rhod Gilbert’s Work Experience 205,000 Eisteddfod Genedlaethol: Mwy o’r Maes 24,000 A Summer in Wales 199,000 Pawb a’i Farn 23,000 Wales Today at 10.25pm 194,000 Y Clwb Rygbi Rhyngwladol 22,000 BBC Cymru Wales English language programmes BBC Cymru Wales programmes on S4C Owen Money and Friends 263,000 Grav: ‘Sdim Cywilydd Mewn Llefain 66,000 Barry John: The King 232,000 Pobol y Cwm Nadolig 63,000 BBC Wales Today Olympic Torch Relay 224,000 Y Clwb Rygbi: Cymru v Barbariaid 33,000 Children in Need: The Best Bits 210,000 Degawdau Dewi Llwyd 25,000 Playing with Poverty 159,000 Y Clwb Rygbi: Prifysgolion Caerdydd v Abertawe 20,000 Source: BARB Figures include any repeats in the same week. BBC Cymru Wales website: Weekly unique browsers Radio weekly reach (adults) (million) (000s) Source: BBC Source: RAJAR/RSMB/Ipsos-MORI BBC Cymru Wales BBC Cymru Wales BBC Radio Wales BBC Radio Cymru English language sites Welsh language sites Management Review 2012/13 – Wales 03 MANAGEMENT REVIEW 2012/13 – WALES SERVICE PERFORMANCE English language programming – is to their writing. And The Exhibitionists series followed what BBC One Wales/BBC Two Wales happened when the National Museum Wales opened its stores This year our English Language Programmes on BBC One and of treasures to five members of the public and challenged them BBC Two Wales continued to reach nearly a million viewers to curate their own art exhibition. They were assisted by painter each week. Osi Rhys Osmond and lecturer Karen Mackinnon and two of them had their own exhibition in the new wing for modern We explored contemporary life in all parts of Wales in popular and contemporary art. We also profiled composer Karl Jenkins, peak time series like the varied and often moving portraits of the comedian Elis James and tenor Wynne Evans in single families who took part in Wales in a Year. Commissioned as the documentaries. We examined the year in the arts in the annual census gave us new facts about our country, we watched 2012 Arts Review. life unfold for a hill farming family in Snowdonia, a lingerie factory owner in the south Wales valleys and three generations of We had an exceptional year of sport with the achievements of the a Merthyr family living on the Gurnos Estate. Welsh Olympians, the Wales international rugby team, Swansea City’s Wembley victory and Cardiff City all captured in our news Police 24/7 gave unexpected and memorable insights into a week coverage, the weekly series Sport Wales and, of course, in Scrum V. in the life of South Wales Police. And in a special nine part series We also captured a magical sporting moment on BBC Wales Today our cameras captured the 2012 Summer in Wales – in all its wet when Jade Jones won Britain’s first ever taekwondo gold medal and windy unpredictability. live during the programme’s late evening bulletin. Anyone who met the twins Catherine and Kirstie in our series While new sporting heroes were born, a poignant documentary Beautiful Lives couldn’t fail to be moved by their courage and paid homage to one of our greatest ever rugby players and positivity. We caught up with them in an award winning perhaps the first real rugby super star – Barry John: The King. documentary as they celebrated their 18th birthdays. In politics and current affairs, we launched a new Sunday night The series Peace of Mind shed light on what day-to-day life is like flagship political showThe Wales Report with Huw Edwards, with an on-going and chronic mental illness. We heard about and broadcast a number of important documentaries including experiences of prejudice in finding employment and the daily Is Wales Working? with Steve Evans. Among the diverse challenges of maintaining well-being. David Williams presented investigations from the Week In Week Out team, an undercover a special programme, Playing with Poverty, in which he looked at report on sham marriages in Wales and scrutiny of the top public the reality behind the statistics that one in three children in service pay packets in Wales were of particular note. Wales now lives in poverty. Fighting our consumer battles regularly on Monday nights, A new arts series Great Welsh Writers took four famous literary X-Ray achieved its highest average audience for ten years. And names – Leslie Thomas, Phillip Pullman, Ken Follett and Elaine our landscape series continued to do well with Iolo’s Great Welsh Morgan – and illustrated how central and important Wales Parks attracting high audience appreciation figures. Catherine and Kirstie who featured in Beautiful Lives Wales in a Year Management Review 2012/13 – Wales 04 MANAGEMENT REVIEW 2012/13 – WALES SERVICE PERFORMANCE BBC Cymru Wales on the networks We produced over 100 films for The One Show, and a Welsh A year since its opening Roath Lock remained at the heart of children’s choir singing on a sun-drenched Gower beach was drama success in Wales.