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

the culture secretary Jeremy Hunt has interviewed candidates for the job of Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Trust chair. He is understood to have submitted the name of his preferred candidate to the prime minister, as rightwing Conservative backbenchers mount a rearguard action to stop Lord Patten from getting the job.

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3 has announced it will broadcast "live" concerts again after a four-year hiatus - every weekday evening for 46 weeks of the year. It's applauded by the concert pianist Stephen Hough, :

"This is an outrageous, audacious, astonishing move by Roger Wright."

The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ is to allow viewers to access programmes broadcast on rival television channels via its successful iPlayer website, . The corporation began listing shows from rivals including ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 on the iPlayer yesterday, claiming that the move was evidence of a new policy to try to support other channels' attempts to make money online.

UK advertisers and broadcasters including BSkyB, Discovery and MTV have railed against proposals by a Lords committee to cut back on TV advertising. the group is arguing that programme investment will come under threat as a result of a drop in ad revenue levels.

The Economist's circulation topped 200,000 in the UK for the first time in the title's 167-year history, according to the ABC magazine figures for the six months to December 2010. But sales of Richard Desmond's OK! fell by 23% to 450,946, .

The government's plans to reform welfare to "make work pay" are pored over in most of the papers. The Daily Express said it welcomed the sanctions against those who turned down jobs, the benefits cap and tax breaks. But the Guardian thinks the "new poor law" should step back from the blueprint for a universal credit. The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ newspaper review links to the front pages.

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