Wales Centre Committee 2010-11
Chairman: Tim Hartley Tim is Head of Corporate Affairs for S4C. He began his career in broadcasting at the BBC, where he spent 17 years, moving from local radio to Wales Today, the 6 o'clock News and Radio 5 Live. He later became Editor of the Welsh language television news service 'Newyddion'. In 2001 Tim was appointed Head of News for the Welsh Assembly Government. He is particularly interested in the media and the public sphere and media literacy. |
Retiring Secretary: Mari Griffith Ever since she taught Richard Dimbleby to play Three Blind Mice on the harp, Mari has been besotted with broadcasting and entirely employed within the industry. She made her first appearance on network television as a kid with ringlets singing to her sisters harp accompaniment, and singing was her first career, as a member of the BBC Northern Singers. Her guitar helped her broaden her scope as a soloist, and BBC schools producers were quick to realise that here were two performers for the price of one! Schools and children's radio and television became bread-and-butter broadcasting, with LPs, solo series and script-writing providing the jam. After a longish flirtation with television as promotions producer, Mari went back to her first love, radio, and has been the voice of Radio Wales News for many a year. She has been the Secretary of the RTS Wales Centre Committee since 1999. (Photo: BBC Wales. Used with permission.) |
Hywel Wiliam After graduating in Law at Cardiff University, and obtaining a post graduate media diploma at UWIC, Hywel Wiliam joined BBC Wales in 1984 as an Assistant Film Editor. In 1986 he moved to the facilities company Barcud in Caernarfon as a VT Editor, and later became a corporate affairs producer with the company, before founding Pow Wow in 1989, an independent television company specialising in commercials. In 1994, Hywel joined the Independent Television Commission, eventually becoming Manager, Wales and the West of England. In 2003, the ITC was merged with four other regulators to become Ofcom, and in 2004 Hywel became it’s Head of Broadcasting and Telecommunications, Wales. This is his second period in office as a member of the RTS Wales Centre Committee – he first served in that capacity in the late 90s. |
Arshad Rasul Arshad has been Director of Engineering and Technology at S4C since 1999, and has spent nearly 30 years in the field of Broadcast Engineering Technology. Graduating from U.M.I.S.T. in 1976, he started his broadcast career with the IBA, moving on to work for Yorkshire Television Engineering Projects, then Oman TV. For a time, Arshad was Head of Maintenance and Projects for TV AM, then joined Channel 4 Television as Engineering Projects Manager. Prior to his current job, he was Europe General Manager (Systems) for Panasonic Broadcast. |
Dr. Eurfron Gwynne Jones An RTS Vice President and Member of Council, Eurfron gained her PhD at University College, Cardiff, before joining the BBC as a graduate trainee. Eurfron worked initially in network radio as a producer in the Education Department, before making the move into television. Her passion has always been for the role of broadcasting in education, and Eurfron saw very clearly the opportunities which the medium afforded the Educationalist. Eventually she became Controller, Educational Broadcasting. Now in demand as a Consultant, in which capacity she was instrumental in the development of the Digital College in Wales, Eurfron has retired to her native Wales, where she and her husband have settled happily in Mumbles. |
John Mead A television professional for over 45 years, John's career has covered all aspects of broadcasting. For eight of those years he was Head of Outside Broadcasts and Special Projects at HTV in Cardiff, and has made programmes with or about people as diverse as Prince Charles and His Holiness Pope John Paul - the latter a 35-camera Outside Broadcast of the Pontiff's visit to Cardiff. One of his pet projects is the "Texaco Young Musician of the Year", which he has produced and directed since 1972. It was as he wound up the latest "Young Musician" shoot in July 2005 that he finally announced his retirement. |
Samantha Rosie
Samantha was born in Australia, and has lived in Wales since coming to work for the BBC on the Garden Festival daytime network show for BBC1, ‘Summer Scene’, from Ebbw Vale in 1992. She has also produced ‘The Curious House Guest’ for BBC 2. Samantha has recently spent the last 3 years running a large team on ‘Hospital 24/7’ – a series shot in real time - 7 days in the life of the University Hospital of Wales. She is currently working on developing new ‘24/7’ series and Executive Producing for BBC Wales.
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Samantha Rosie is a Series Producer with BBC Wales. She has been making observational documentaries for over 18 years. Samantha won the Royal Television Society Award for Best Documentary in 1997 for ‘The Doctors Story’, and the BAFTA CYMRU Award for Best Director of a Documentary for ‘Hospital’ in 2003. Samantha also shoots her own material, and her programmes reveal an intimacy with her contributors who are often in vulnerable situations.