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I'm the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.

The Sir Michael Lyons, the outgoing chairman of the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Trust, will today tell the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s competitors they will have the right to comment on how well they believe the public broadcaster is meeting its target of producing "high quality, distinctive" content. priorities and budgets for ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ radio and television should be published a year in advance to give commercial broadcasters the chance to plan their own on-air schedules and spending.

³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ Radio 3 today becomes the first in the UK to broadcast full time in so-called "high definition sound". The listeners will need a computer and speakers better than those that come with most laptops or standard PCs.

The Commons culture, media and sport select committee has criticised Channel 4 for the "unacceptably high" salary it paid to its former chief executive Andy Duncan. The MPs say it was "wrong" to pay Duncan a loyalty bonus of more than £220,000 for agreeing to stay with the company for two years, .

American-style local TV news for towns and cities - as opposed to the broader regional news bulletins currently provided by the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ and ITV - will be a reality by the summer of 2012, according to Government plans. The the yellow button on the TV remote control could be used to link straight to local news.

A satirical sketch which parodies the student gap year has been named as one of YouTube's biggest hits of 2010. 'Gap Yah', created by theatre group The Unexpected Items, was named best homegrown comedy, .

Episodes of The X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing helped attract the biggest Sunday night audience for nearly 20 years. An average total of 28 million people switched on their TV between 1800 and 2230 - the biggest on a Sunday since 1992, when current research methods began, the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ reports.

The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳'s newspaper review says the Daily Express takes one look at the suicide bombing in Sweden and concludes that "once again, all Islamist roads lead back to Britain". And not just Britain, as the Daily Telegraph points out, but Luton.

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