S4C Viewing Figures
Top 20 Welsh Programmes - Week ending 23/09/2007 Programme Title Transmission Date and Time Company Thousands of Viewers POBOL Y CWM Monday (20:25), Wednesday (18:00) and Sunday (18:20) BBC Cymru 101 POBOL Y CWM Wednesday (20:00), Thursday (18:00) and Sunday (18:45) BBC Cymru 95 POBOL Y CWM Friday (19:15), Sunday (19:05) and Monday 24/09 (18:00) BBC Cymru 88 POBOL Y CWM Monday (20:00), Tuesday (18:00) and Sunday (18:00) BBC Cymru 72 CWPAN RYGBI'R BYD 2007 (Cymru v Japan) Thursday (19:25) Sunset & Vine 60 Y CLWB RYGBI (Munster v Sgarlets) Saturday (17:10) BBC Cymru 53 YSGOLORIAETH BRYN TERFEL Sunday (19:30), Monday 24/09 (21:30), Tuesday 25/09 (22:00) and Friday 28/09 (20:25) Hanner: Hanner 46 WEDI 7 Monday (19:00) and Tuesday (13:30) Tinopolis 42 WEDI 7 Thursday (19:00) and Friday (13:30) Tinopolis 41 CWPAN RYGBI'R BYD 2007 (Yr Alban v Romania) Tuesday (19:45) Sunset & Vine 40 JONATHAN Wednesday (21:00) BBC Cymru 39 Y TY CYMREIG Wednesday (20:25), Friday (14:25) and Saturday (13:30) Fflic 38 NEWYDDION Monday (19:30) BBC Cymru 34 PENAWDAU NEWYDDION Monday (20:55) BBC Cymru 33 WEDI 7 Wednesday (19:00) and Thursday (13:30) Tinopolis 33 PENAWDAU NEWYDDION Wednesday (20:55) BBC Cymru 30 NEWYDDION Wednesday (19:30) BBC Cymru 30 NEWYDDION Tuesday (19:30 BBC Cymru 29 WEDI 7 Tuesday (19:00) and Wednesday (13:30) Tinopolis 29 GWESTY CYMRU Friday (22:00) and Saturday (21:20) SMS 27
Source: BARB
From November 1st 2005 to the 22nd of January 2006 there was an incorrect application of a new S4C station code in the BARB viewing measurement system. This resulted in S4C's data being under-reported by an estimated 6% in peak hours and 3% across all hours for this period. These percentages should not be attributed to individual programmes as they are estimates over time and should not be assigned to specific programmes.
'''Friday, October 16, 2009'''
Welsh language television soap-opera Pobol y Cwm celebrated the 35th anniversary of broadcasting on Friday.

Pobol y Cwm — Welsh for "People of the Valley" — made its first broadcast on BBC One Wales on October 16, 1974.  It was transferred onto the Welsh channel S4C in 1982 and has been broadcast there ever since, but is still filmed in the BBC Cymru studios.  It is one of the most watched programmes on the Welsh channel and the longest-running television soap-opera produced by the BBC. The episode marking the 35th anniversary of the day the show was debuted was broadcast on Friday.

On the S4C website, the viewing figures state that the show is one of the most watched on the television channel, with viewing figures of around 70,000 on a regular basis. It is also the only soap-opera produced in the United Kingdom that is spoken in a language other than English and one of the two currently running regional soap-operas in the UK, the other being Scottish soap-opera River City. The television programme is the third-longest-running soap-opera overall, behind ITV soap-operas Emmerdale and Coronation Street.

BBC Radio Cymru are to broadcast a programme at 0900 BST on Saturday to celebrate 35 years of programming for the show. Welsh actor Emyr Wyn said about the show: "When PYC started it was the only Welsh language drama on television.

"It’s still an integral part of Welsh-language TV. It’s the only Welsh soap and in the last 10 years it’s become even more accessible. It has lots of non-Welsh speaking viewers too. PYC is on Sky+ and I remember getting a shock when I went to a skiing chalet in France years ago and switched on the television and PYC came on!"