Media Brief
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| 10:50 UK time, Tuesday, 30 November 2010
I'm the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.
Monday's Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's Panorama reported that three senior Fifa officials who will vote on the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids took bribes in the 1990s. The Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú has been criticised by those running England's bid to host the tournament for the programme's timing, three days before the vote.
the timing of the Panorama programme.
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The three of the Fifa executive committee members who will decide the fate of the 2018 World Cup were accused by Panorama of taking bribes in a corruption scandal involving around $100m (£64.2m) of secret payments.
The FM radio has been "thrown a lifeline" after Ministers privately accepted the digital switchover will not happen by 2015. It says insiders believe the switchover may not be achievable until 2017 at the earliest and, given the current take-up rate, 2020 is more realistic.
The culture minister, Ed Vaizey said the British Film Institute would assume the lion's share of the responsibilities of the defunct UK Film Council and announced a 60% increase in lottery funding for the UK industry, .
The that Sky News has revealed plans for an Arabic TV service, under a joint venture with Sheikh Mansour Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the owner of Manchester City Football Club.
"The world according to Andrew" is the lead for most tabloids and broadsheets, as the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Newspaper review shows. It follows the leaking of remarks made about Prince Andrew by Washington's ambassador to Kyrgyzstan in a document revealed by website Wikileaks.
