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Torin Douglas Torin Douglas | 10:30 UK time, Monday, 2 August 2010

I'm the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.

An Adam Smith Institute report says the licence fee is 'obsolete and unfair' and should be scrapped. It says subscription and overseas sales could give the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ "the global presence of a Hollywood studio, but with a wider range of output" the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ reports.

The report's author David Graham set out his thinking in the [subscription required].

ITV's new leaders, Archie Norman and Adam Crozier, are expected to announce new programme investment and a possible return to pay-TV when they present its results this week and the [subscription required].


The the former Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Secretary Jacqui Smith has "sparked fury" by applying to be vice-chairman of the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Trust. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Trust and the Culture Department said they did not comment on recruitment matters.

The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ newspaper review says several papers anticipate the expected news that Britain's five biggest banks are back in the black.

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• Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ | TV licence fee should be scrapped, think tank says
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• Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ | Newspaper review

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