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I'm the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on. Some content may need a subscription.

The [subscription required] the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú is spending nearly £10 million a year employing highly paid executives on "hidden" contracts that are not included in its £1 billion wage bill. It says they include the iPlayer boss Anthony Rose. It quotes a Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú spokesman saying:

"These are commercial arrangements with contractors who offer specific skills not available in the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú at a salary cost we can afford."

The Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's spending on new TV programmes has fallen by 13% in the past five years, according to an Ofcom report. The Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú says it's partly because of increased efficiency, and savings are put back into programmes. But the licence-payers will be angry.

Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú has confirmed the move of Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Breakfast to Salford, with 88 jobs expected to move north. Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú North director it's especially symbolic - the first Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú network news programme to come from outside London.

The Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Trust chairman Sir Michael Lyons has offered to meet Selina Scott to discuss her claims of sexism, .

Jonathan Ross has recorded his final TV chat show for the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú and said he was lucky and grateful to have worked at the Corporation, reports the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú.

The Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú newspaper review says the appointment of General Sir David Richards as the new Chief of the Defence Staff is greeted with universal acclaim in the papers.

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