Owen Edwards (broadcaster)

Owen Edwards (26 December 1933 – 30 August 2010) was a Welsh broadcaster, and the first chief executive of the Welsh-language television channel S4C, the fourth television channel in Wales, a post he held from 1981-89.[1]

He was a presenter on the early Welsh-language television programme Dewch i Mewn during the 1950s. From 1961 to 1966 he presented Heddiw, the BBC's early evening Welsh-language news magazine programme.[2]

  1. ^ BBC Wales News
  2. ^ "Owen Edwards: Pioneering television executive and architect of S4C". The Independent. 7 September 2010. Archived from the original on 24 May 2022. Retrieved 5 April 2019.