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.
From 1961 to 1966 he presented Heddiw, the BBC's early evening Welsh-language news magazine programme.
He was educated at Ysgol Gymraeg Aberystwyth, and went on to Leighton Park School in Reading.
His seven years as Controller coincided with the rapid development of the BBC's output in Wales, in both Welsh and English, so that by the mid-1970s it was producing some 1,500 hours of radio a year and 650 hours of television, in both languages.
[3] He maintained an interest in broadcasting as Chairman of the Association for Film and Television in the Celtic Countries.