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Statements of Programme Policy

BBC One Programme Policy 2008/2009

BBC One television

Service remit

The remit of BBC One in Wales is to complement the networked BBC One schedule by providing mixed-genre programmes appealing to mainstream audiences in Wales which displace or replace content otherwise available on BBC One.

The service should provide viewers in Wales with programmes that reflect and support local culture, identity and heritage, and it should be the BBC's primary outlet for coverage of major events in Wales.

Key developments

BBC One Wales will continue to contribute towards the delivery of the BBC's public purposes through BBC One in the range of ways set out in its service licence. Key developments for BBC One Wales this year are as follows.

1 Promoting education and learning

  • Priority: A key contribution to promoting education and learning to a broad audience will be a series building on the success of Coal House in 2007. Coal House 2 will promote education and learning through a new partnership with schools and colleges in Wales that will fully exploit the content produced by the innovative multi-platform history format and appeal to younger, harder-to-reach audiences.

2 Stimulating creativity and cultural excellence

  • BBC One Wales intends to commission landmark documentaries in the arts, including a major one-hour piece on Dylan Thomas.

3 Sustaining citizenship and civil society

  • BBC One Wales will continue to provide in-depth coverage of and investigation into public policy issues through our news and current affairs programming.

4 Representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities

  • BBC One Wales will reflect Wales through contemporary programming across a wide range of genres: drama, comedy and new factual initiatives such as Go Wild With Iolo Williams, a new formatted approach to encourage engagement with the Welsh environment.

5 Delivering the benefit of emerging communications technologies

  • A range of our content will be delivered on different platforms, including content from Wales Today and Coal House 2.

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Conditions: BBC purposes and BBC One Wales commitments

Unless otherwise stated, all commitments are minimum hours and include originations, repeats and acquisitions.
All conditions are annual unless otherwise stated.

Sustaining citizenship and civil society

  • 250 hours of television news and current affairs

Stimulating creativity and cultural excellence

  • 60 hours of other (non-news) programming

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Statutory commitments

In addition to the conditions and commitments outlined in this annex, BBC One Wales will contribute as appropriate to the fulfilment of a number of statutory commitments for the networked BBC One service as described in the master Statement of Programme Policy for BBC One.

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