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=== Media === In 1983 [[BBC Radio Cornwall]] started broadcasting around two minutes of Cornish every week. In 1987, however, they gave over 15 minutes of airtime on Sunday mornings for a programme called {{lang|kw|Kroeder Kroghen}} ('[[Holdall]]'), presented by John King, running until the early 1990s.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25205141 |title=The Celtic languages |date=1993 |last=Ball |first=Martin |publisher=[[Routledge]] |location=New York / London |isbn=0415010357 |pages=652 |oclc=25205141}}</ref> It was eventually replaced with a five-minute news bulletin called {{lang|kw|An Nowodhow}} ('The News'). The bulletin was presented every Sunday evening for many years by [[Rod Lyon]], then Elizabeth Stewart, and currently a team presents in rotation.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/connected/stories/cornish_news.shtml |title=Cornwall β Connected β Hear the news read in Cornish |work=[[BBC]] |access-date=28 May 2013}}</ref> [[Pirate FM]] ran short bulletins on Saturday lunchtimes from 1998 to 1999. In 2006, Matthew Clarke who had presented the Pirate FM bulletin, launched a web-streamed news bulletin called {{lang|kw|Nowodhow an Seythen}} ('Weekly News'), which in 2008 was merged into a new weekly magazine podcast {{lang|kw|[[Radyo an Gernewegva]]}} (RanG). Cornish television shows have included a 1982 series by [[Westward Television]] with each episode containing a three-minute lesson in Cornish.{{sfn|Ball|1993|p=652}} {{lang|kw|An Canker-Seth}}, an eight-episode series produced by [[Television South West]] and broadcast between June and July 1984, later on [[S4C]] from May to July 1985, and as a schools programme in 1986.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.broadcastforschools.co.uk/site/An_Canker-Seth |title=An Canker-Seth |work=BroadcastForSchools.co.uk |date=31 December 2011 |access-date=28 May 2013}}</ref> Also by Television South West were two bilingual programmes on Cornish Culture called {{lang|kw|Nosweyth Lowen}}.{{sfn|Ball|1993|p=652}} In 2016 Kelly's Ice Cream of [[Bodmin]] introduced a light hearted television commercial in the Cornish language and this was repeated in 2017.<ref>{{cite news |date=20 May 2016 |title=First Cornish TV ad to air weeks after language funding is axed |url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/20/first-cornish-tv-ad-to-air-weeks-after-language-funding-is-axed |access-date=18 September 2021 |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> The first episode from the third season of the US television program ''[[Deadwood (TV series)|Deadwood]]'' features a conversation between miners, purportedly in the Cornish language, but really in [[Irish language|Irish]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The other American Celts - the Cornish |url=http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/other-american-celts-cornwall |access-date=18 September 2021 |website=IrishCentral.com |date=23 February 2020}}</ref> One of the miners is then shot by thugs working for businessman [[George Hearst]] who justify the murder by saying, "He come at me with his foreign gibberish." A number of Cornish language films have been made, including ''[[Hwerow Hweg]]'', a 2002 drama film written and directed by Hungarian film-maker Antal Kovacs and ''[[Trengellick Rising]]'', a short film written and directed by [[Guy Potter]]. Screen Cornwall works with Cornwall Council to commission a short film in the Cornish language each year, with their FilmK competition. Their website states "FylmK is an annual contemporary Cornish language short film competition, producing an imaginative and engaging film, in any genre, from distinctive and exciting filmmakers".<ref>{{Cite web |title=FylmK |url=https://www.screencornwall.com/fylmk |access-date=21 April 2022 |website=Screen Cornwall}}</ref> A monthly half-hour online TV show began in 2017 called {{lang|kw|An Mis}} (The Month). It contained news items about cultural events and more mainstream news stories all through Cornish. It also ran a cookery segment called "{{lang|kw|italic=unset|Kegin Esther}}" ('Esther's Kitchen').<ref>{{Cite web |title=FylmK |url=https://anradyo.com/ |access-date=4 May 2024 |website=Radyo an Gernewegva}}</ref>
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