Cyw


Cyw is the name of a Welsh-language children's television block from S4C, which launched on 23 June 2008.
Primarily aimed at children in the 3 to 6 age group, Cyw operates from Monday to Friday from 7am to 1:30 pm, and includes programmes which have been previously broadcast by S4C in the Planed Plant Bach slot, such as "Bla Bla Blewog Sam Tân Tomos a Ffrindiau and Bob y Bildar as well as shows being transmitted for the first time in Welsh such as Dafydd a Bitw ac Owain a Henri, Heini, Y Brodyr Coala, Y Teulu Mawr, Rapsgaliwn, Dona Direidi and Caio and Ben a Mali a'u byd bach hud.

Channel presentation

Idents and graphics

The channel has a logo built of the word Cyw in the Elementary SF Sans font, the C being in red, the y in yellow and the w in blue. The channel also features 6 characters, created as part of the channel's global identity, which are used as short animated bumpers into programmes.
The network mascots were a lion named Llew, an elephant named Plwmp, a small fuchsia-coloured bird named Deryn, a giraffe named Jangl, a bulldog named Bolgi, and Cyw, a small female chick. But the last mascot is still a Cyw mascot due to the logo.
Cyw is a non-commercial channel, in a different format as its parent, S4C.
Presenters currently are Huw Owen and Elin Haf.

The future

In a press release, S4C announced that the plan would be eventually for Cyw to launch as a standalone channel. This was believed likely to occur during the switchover to DVB and DTT in the UK, which took place between 2007 and 2012. However, the launch never took place, and Cyw still remains as a block on S4C
Stwnsh has since replaced Planed Plant, providing two hours' worth of programmes, every weekday evening.