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BBC Cymru Fyw

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ24993594 ↗
Source-derived summary

BBC Cymru Fyw (BBC Wales Live) is the online Welsh-language service provided by BBC Cymru Wales. It was launched in 2014 in order to replace the BBC Cymru ar lein service. It provides news coverage, magazine-style information and video clips, all through the medium of Welsh.

Cymru Fyw received around 53,000 unique browser visits each week in 2016–2017, which was an increase of 11,000 visits compared to the previous year.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014, 2016, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Cymru, Open-knowledge and entry is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24993594. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2014, 2016 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “BBC Cymru Fyw” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.