A new Welsh language television channel will go live at the Urdd Eisteddfod today (Monday, 30th May) to raise awareness of the threat to S4C's future.The volunteer-run channel, called "Sianel '62", will be launched by broadcaster Angharad Mair at the Welsh Language Society (Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg) tent and will be online during the festival week. Since the start of the language group's campaign last year, the group have been calling for a new S4C, and this is one of their initiatives to highlight the need for changes to the broadcaster.According to Bethan Williams, Chair of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg, there are a number of reasons for launching the channel:"In the face of the threats to S4C, we've set-up a new channel, Sianel '62. The channel demonstrates the problems broadcasting will face with fewer resources. S4C faces enormous cuts which threaten its very existence. But also, there will be a way for people to come to our stand and film clips so they can contribute to the channel themselves."There's no budget for Sianel '62, so it'll only be broadcasting for the week. In the same way, there's no financial certainty for S4C beyond 2015. There's no way to run a channel without long-term funding, it can't plan for the future. So, we're calling for two things - ensuring independence for S4C and sufficient funding is earmarked for it. Without those two things, there won't be certain future for the channel, so we are asking people to refuse to pay their TV licence until there's a certain future for the channel."The channel will broadcast some of the highlights of the S4C campaign over the last year, clips which have been sent from members of the society over the last year.A number of school pupils appear in the video explaining why the channel is important to them.Ffred Ffransis is one of the people who was active in the campaign to establish the channel in the 1970s, in the broadcast on Sianel 62 he says:"How many of you were part of the campaign to establish BBC3? No, no-one? Maybe you were part of the campaign to establish the E4+1 channel? ... To tell the truth there were no campaigns to set-up those channels. But, there was a campaign to create a Welsh language TV channel. Something which is considered one of the cornerstones of our culture."