Editing Channel 4 (section)

===Wales===
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At the time the fourth service was being considered, a movement in Wales lobbied for the creation of dedicated service that would air [[Welsh language]] programmes, then only catered for at off-peak times on [[BBC Wales]] and [[ITV Wales & West|HTV]]. The campaign was taken so seriously by [[Gwynfor Evans]], former president of [[Plaid Cymru]], that he threatened the government with a hunger strike were it not to honour the plans.<ref name="seefour_wales">{{cite web |url=http://www.transdiffusion.org/tv/seefour/wales |title=A Channel for Wales |author=Dafydd Hancock |publisher=seefour by Electromusications |website=Transdiffusion Broadcasting System |date=11 September 2005 |access-date=23 March 2007 |archive-date=2 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140502013117/http://www.transdiffusion.org/tv/seefour/wales |url-status=live }}</ref>

The result was that Channel 4 as seen by the rest of the United Kingdom would be replaced in Wales by [[S4C]] (Sianel Pedwar Cymru, meaning "Channel Four Wales" in Welsh). Operated by [[S4C Authority|a specially created authority]], S4C would air programmes in Welsh made by HTV, the BBC and independent companies. Initially, limited frequency space meant that Channel 4 could not be broadcast alongside S4C, though some Channel 4 programmes would be aired at less popular times on the Welsh variant; this practice continued until the closure of S4C's analogue transmissions in 2010, at which time S4C became a fully Welsh channel. With this conversion of the [[Wenvoe transmitting station|Wenvoe]] transmitter group in Wales to digital terrestrial broadcasting on 31 March 2010, Channel 4 became a nationwide television channel for the first time.

Since then, carriage on digital [[cable television|cable]], [[satellite television|satellite]] and [[digital terrestrial]] has introduced Channel 4 to Welsh homes where it is now universally available.