S4C row gets louder

Tempers are running high in Welsh media circles in the aftermath of S4C chief executive Iona Jones's abrupt departure, it would seem. Alun Davies, Labour Welsh Assembly member, had a lively encounter with S4C's acting chief executive, Arwel Ellis Owen, at the National Eisteddfod last week. "Arwel stormed across, bellowed at me, saying they needed unconditional support, he was shouting at me that I was living in the past. He was about a centimetre away from my nose," Davies tells Monkey. Davies responded by writing to Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, asking him to shed light on the "curious and somewhat chaotic events" at S4C in recent weeks and the "collapse of the whole regulatory and management structure at the channel". Unconditional support, be damned.