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I'm the Â鶹Éç's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.

There will be no increase to the TV licence fee in 2011 after the Â鶹Éç Trust offered to freeze it at £145.50 for the next two years, the Â鶹Éç reports. But could the fee actually be cut in 2012?The Trust believes that would be a breach of the existing agreement but the DCMS has not ruled it out.

The [subscription required] "The Â鶹Éç was pitched into a battle over the future of the licence fee yesterday after government sources suggested that ministers might abandon the current deal with the corporation and cut the fee in 2012".

The the director general of the Â鶹Éç Mark Thompson warned that the corporation may not be able to bid for programme rights as a consequence.

The Press Complaints Commission has upheld a complaint by TV and radio presenter Clare Balding over an article in the Sunday Times that mocked her sexuality, reports the Â鶹Éç.

A new free-to-air, web-connected TV service, combining Freeview digital channels with on-demand content such as iPlayer will launch in the UK in 2011, reports the Â鶹Éç. YouView - formerly known as Project Canvas - is a partnership between BT, the Â鶹Éç, ITV, Five, Channel 4, Arqiva and TalkTalk.

The the News of the World will be the next News International paper to go behind a paywall.

The "Whinge Watch", monitoring "the Â鶹Éç's biased reporting of the battle to save Britain's economy".

Is the Â鶹Éç pension offer a good one? that the compromise deal offered by Mark Thompson will still make Â鶹Éç workers some of the richest pensioners the UK has known.

The Â鶹Éç Newspaper review says the papers reflect on the Pope's first day of the visit to the UK. With the child sex abuse scandal "overshadowing the Pope's every move", the Independent calls his visit to the UK "mission improbable". It asks whether the Pope's message is "doomed to fall on stony ground?"

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