{"id":15241,"date":"2017-02-03T12:53:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T12:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=15241"},"modified":"2017-02-03T13:01:10","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T13:01:10","slug":"itv-wales-say-assembly-committees-criticism-of-them-is-unfair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/itv-wales-say-assembly-committees-criticism-of-them-is-unfair\/","title":{"rendered":"ITV Wales say Assembly Committee&#8217;s criticism of them is &#8220;unfair&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ITV Wales have defended their approach to broadcasting after a\u00a0Welsh Assembly report says they&#8217;re not doing enough to represent life in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>A report produced by the Culture, Welsh Language and Communication Committee was published on Wednesday and scrutinises broadcasters in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>The report says ITV have a\u00a0&#8220;laissez-faire approach&#8221; which &#8220;has not led to Welsh voices being adequately represented&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>ITV Wales&#8217; Public Affairs Manager, Huw Rossiter, says they &#8220;were surprised by the use of that language. We think it&#8217;s unfair, that gives the impression that ITV Wales has not been pro-active in their dealings.\u00a0Nothing could be further from the truth&#8230;There&#8217;s a tendency to forget what ITV have contributed to the plurality of broadcasting in Wales.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;We welcome the work of the Committee and we will continue to engage constructively with them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15334\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15334\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-15334 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/File_000-1-16-525x394.jpeg\" alt=\"Huw Rossiter, Public Relations Manager at ITV Wales\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15334\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Huw Rossiter, Public Relations Manager at ITV Wales, says the report&#8217;s criticism is &#8220;unfair&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>AM Lee Waters, who sits on the Culture committee, \u00a0says &#8220;ITV have reacted remarkably thin-skinnedly&#8221; to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to CJS News in his first broadcast interview since the report, he says &#8220;they&#8217;re not used to having criticism and they&#8217;re feeling a little bit sorry for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But they need to get used to it, they&#8217;re a public service broadcaster. They get the licence to broadcast and charge advertising from the public, they&#8217;ve made significant profits in recent years&#8230;and there needs to be a bigger payback from that because they&#8217;re not serving Wales well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Broadcasting is not devolved in Wales but the Committee report says &#8220;the role of broadcasters and the media in Wales is of enormous cultural and political importance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other recommendations made by the report include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Asking the BBC Director General to provide an extra \u00a330 million annually for English language drama and broadcasting in Wales<\/li>\n<li>The BBC should fund a Wales news &#8216;opt-out&#8217; &#8211; that means including Welsh as well as national news &#8211; for Radio 1 and Radio 2<\/li>\n<li>No further cuts should be made to Welsh language broadcaster&#8217;s S4C&#8217;s funding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Culture committee&#8217;s recommendations\u00a0will be sent to Welsh Government to consider.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITV Wales have defended their approach to broadcasting after a\u00a0Welsh Assembly report says they&#8217;re not doing enough to represent life in Wales. A report produced by the Culture, Welsh Language and Communication Committee was published on Wednesday and scrutinises broadcasters in Wales. The report says ITV have a\u00a0&#8220;laissez-faire approach&#8221; which &#8220;has not led to Welsh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[741,1077,332,1075,1076,114],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15241"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15337,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15241\/revisions\/15337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}