Media Brief
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| 10:38 UK time, Thursday, 13 May 2010
I'm the BBC's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what you need to know.
Jeremy Hunt, the new Culture Olympics Media & Sport Secretary, says the Olympics is his top priority. He's also looking for £66m cuts. The Guardian and I analyse his in-tray.
The Guardian and BBC report that radio listening is booming, with Chris Evans' new Radio 2 Breakfast Show reaching a record 9.5m listeners a week, over a million more than Sir Terry Wogan. BBC 6 Music, threatened with closure, is up 50% to over 1m listeners.
BT has announced plans for the roll-out of super-fast broadband to around two-thirds of UK homes by 2015. Its profits have risen to £1 billion in the year to March. Its chief executive Ian Livingstone was on Radio 4's Today Programme.
The BBC paper review says Matt's cartoon in the Daily Telegraph depicts what some papers call the shotgun marriage of David Cameron and Nick Clegg. Others call it a love-in or a civil partnership.
