Media Brief
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| 09:05 UK time, Monday, 21 June 2010
I'm the BBC's media correspondent and this is my brief selection of what's going on.
BBC Worldwide, the corporation's commercial arm, says it will pay bonuses to senior managers, as it prepares to announce record profits. Its chief executive John Smith tells Media Guardian it is competing for expensive talent in America and Australia. It's in contrast to the publicly-funded BBC, where executives have had their pay and bonuses frozen.
The BBC reports that Christine Bleakley is leaving the One Show to join Adrian Chiles on ITV's new breakfast show, after the corporation withdrew its offer of a new contract.
Earlier, MPs had criticised the BBC for making her a reported offer of £450,000 a year, according to the Sun.
The Evening Standard is about to move into profit, a year after being turned into a free newspaper, says Roy Greenslade in the Guardian. It's about to increase its print run from 600,000 to 750,000.
TV audiences this week face 18-19 hours of sports coverage daily across BBC1, BBC2 and ITV1 as Wimbledon coincides with the World Cup. The Daily Mail spells it out.
ITV's former World Cup pundit Robbie Earle says the broadcaster supplied him with 400 tickets for the tournament. He told the Mail on Sunday that he was fired by ITV after some of the tickets were used as part of an ambush marketing stunt.
The Telegraph reports that the BSkyB board wants assurances that Sky News would not be turned into a partisan "Fox News-style" service if it accepts an offer from News Corporation to take full control.
Many newspapers put the Budget on their front pages, the day before the government reveals its plans.
Links in full
• James Robinson | Guardian | BBC Worldwide ignores ban on executive bonuses
• BBC | Bleakley to leave BBC for ITV
• Leigh Holmwood | The Sun | Bleakley given boot from Beeb
• Roy Greenslade | Guardian | Evening Standard on course for profit
• Liz Thomas | Daily Mail | Wimbledon and World Cup
• Jason Lewis | Mail on Sunday | Earle reveals how tickets came to be used
• Kamal Ahmed and Neil Midgley | Telegraph | BSkyB fears 'Foxisation' by Murdoch
• BBC | Newspaper review
