A CUTE children's TV character life will hang in the balance as the campaign to save S4C reaches the Urdd Eisteddfod today (Tuesday, 31st May).Cyw, a cartoon chick, and other children's cartoon characters will be chased around the festival field by the Tory Minister, Jeremy Hunt during a protest organised by Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg (Welsh Language Society). Among the speakers at the demonstration will be South West Wales AM Bethan Jenkins and Llanelli AM Keith Davies.An umbrella group, which includes a number of unions and the language campaigners, have been working together to oppose UK Government plans to cuts its grant to S4C by 94% and merge the channel with the BBC.Speaking ahead of the protest, Bethan Williams, Chair of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg warned that funding S4C via the license fee would cause tensions in Wales:"The Tories in Westminster are trying to kill off Cyw and his friends - really popular children's characters. Their reckless cuts have put Welsh broadcasting in a crisis, there's no doubt about that. We're on a path to a nightmare situation. The combination of enormous cuts, along with the merger of S4C and the BBC, would mean permanent linguistic tensions in our country. We've been warning about this since the start of the threat to S4C almost a year ago. It's the pain of the tensions in the seventies that secured the support of every one in Wales behind the idea that we needed a complete independent institution that became S4C."Bethan Williams added:"Our main message today is that we need to continue to campaign together, Welsh speakers or not, oif we are to see a future for our only Welsh language TV channel. If things don't change, we'll be left fighting over the crumbs left by the cutters in London, Welsh speakers pitted against non-Welsh speakers. No-one wants to see that, that's why we must win this campaign."