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I'm the Â鶹Éç'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Éç 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Éç spokesman saying:

"These are commercial arrangements with contractors who offer specific skills not available in the Â鶹Éç at a salary cost we can afford."

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

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

The Â鶹Éç 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Éç and said he was lucky and grateful to have worked at the Corporation, reports the Â鶹Éç.

The Â鶹Éç 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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• Â鶹Éç | Â鶹Éç spending on new TV shows has fallen, says Ofcom
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• Â鶹Éç | Jonathan Ross 'honoured' to have worked at Â鶹Éç
• Â鶹Éç | Newspaper Review