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I'm the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on. Some content may need a subscription.

More than 20 million people watched the World Cup final at its peak, 18 million on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ, according to unofficial overnight figures. The game averaged 15.1 million viewers on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ1 and 3.3 million on ITV1, report the and .

[subscription required] ITV's World Cup ITV Live website attracted more than 2 million unique users during the tournament. 800,000 downloaded its ad-funded iPhone app.

the about-turn on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 6 Music but fears that Tim Davie, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Director of Audio and Music, is going to ruin Radio 7:

"Oh no! He's about to do away with the very best thing to come out of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's digital venture. Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 7 has an identity all its own.... 4Xtra sounds as if it will offer yet another chance to hear A History of the World in 100 Objects."

Penthouse is bidding for Playboy. [subscription required] that while media brands such as Walt Disney have managed to update themselves for new times:

"Playboy - with its bunny girls and associations of the swinging sixties - is now archaic."

Katherine Jenkins and Sir Michael Gambon are to star in the Doctor Who Christmas special, and the .

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