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Torin Douglas Torin Douglas | 15:20 UK time, Monday, 14 June 2010

I'm the BBC's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.
The Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said the Government intends to put the BBC licence fee under scrutiny as early as next year. He's given an interview to the editor of Media Guardian, Jane Martinson.

ITV has apologised after viewers watching its HD channel missed England's first World Cup goal because of a "transmission" error. Instead they saw a commercial for Hyundai cars. Technicolor, one of ITV's suppliers, have blamed human error reports the Telegraph and the BBC.

But the Daily Mail says there's speculation that it could have been a betting scam.

The BBC reports that the unofficial World Cup anthem by James Corden and Dizzee Rascal is top of the singles chart.

Sarah Brown has broken her own publisher's embargo by revealing on Twitter that she's to publish her memoirs about life at Number 10. The Independent says that as a former PR professional she should have known better.


The BBC's newspaper review says "Crunch Time for BP" runs one headline, as the White House turns up the heat on the company.


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