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

In considers the appointment of Danny Cohen as controller of Â鶹Éç1.

Martha Lane Fox is stepping up her campaign to get Britain online .

Former Â鶹Éç director-general Greg Dyke tells he thinks this government will be "genuinely supportive of the Â鶹Éç....which the Labour government wasn't in the later years". He believes salaries at the Â鶹Éç have got far too high.

The Felicity Kendall's splits on Strictly Come Dancing "brought a collective gasp from the nation's living rooms". It says the 64-year-old actress puts it down to yoga and pilates and that she and Pamela Stephenson have given the show "pensioner-power". But Paul Daniels was voted out.

The Â鶹Éç newspaper review says the papers consider George Osborne's likely strategy as he unveils what the Financial Times suggests could be "the mother of all negative stories".

Saturday's that Elisabeth Murdoch's Shine TV is to sue Richard Desmond over a so-far unpaid bill for a Channel 5 show, Don't Stop Believing. It says other independent producers have had their bills queried by the channel's new owner.

Saturday's says the Â鶹Éç has opened itself up to accusations of dumbing down after appointing Â鶹Éç Three controller Danny Cohen to run Â鶹Éç1. But Â鶹Éç Vision director Jana Bennett hailed Mr Cohen as "one of the most talented TV executives of his generation". She said Â鶹Éç Three, once heavily criticised, has been named channel of the year for the past three years.

The the Â鶹Éç has cut the amount it pays senior managers by more than 10%, the corporation confirmed on Friday. It published figures showing the number of senior managers has dropped from 639 to 592, while their pay bill has fallen by 12.2%

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