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A MAN OF CONVICTION?
He rose to prominence as a language campaigner gaoled for sabotaging a TV transmitter in 1978. He started his career in the media as a REBECCA reporter in the early 1980s. He was appointed chair of the Welsh Language Board in 1999 and became Ofcom’s Wales Director in 2004. This makes him one of the most powerful public figures in Wales. However, outside the public arena, there have been allegations that he tried to build another career as a media tycoon using questionable methods. In the late 1980s he was criticised for trying to take the Welsh language current affairs contract from HTV even though he was employed by the company. In 1989 he was one of the founders of the independent production company Agenda Television, now known as Tinopolis. In 2001 he suddenly left the Llanelli-based company — REBECCA will tell the inside story of what actually happened. He then went to work for another company called RMR but the job only lasted six months before he had to leave.
He was then offered work with the Avanti TV group in Pontypridd. Part of his role was to help deliver one of the most controversial contracts Wales has ever seen. Avanti, headed by Emyr Afan, had landed a £4 million grant from Elwa, the Welsh further education quango. But he was there only a short while when he landed the plum post of Welsh director of Ofcom in 2004. Anyone with any information can contact us, in confidence, on editorial@rebeccatelevision.com |
