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Friday's Media Briefing

THE GUARDIAN

BT to target one million potential users in broadband drive. P26
Google challenges Coke and Microsoft in bid to become world's number one brand. P27
Warner and EMI agree to remain apart after court ruling. P28
Online music sharing service Kazaa to go legitimate by paying 61m pounds compensation for illegal downloads. P28
EC looks into licensing of new DVD formats. P28
Actor Tori Spelling's battle for a share of father Aaron's fortune. G2 P12-13
Nancy Banks-Smith reviews Execution of a Teenage Girl (BBC2) and Natural World - Satoyama: Japan's Secret Water Garden (BBC2). G2 P28

FINANCIAL TIMES

BBC to scale down licence fee bid after Ofcom announces later date for spectrum payments. P3
Music groups settle with Kazaa peer-to-peer filesharing network. P7
EMI and Warner to remain apart after court ruling. P15, P17
BT predicts new wave of broadband growth. P16
Bill Gates' successor Ray Ozzie predicts the end of the PC era. P22
Online books retailer Amazon strikes first ever book deal with Hollywood. P22
World Cup helps Sony sell flat-panel TVs. P22
Revenues rise at Paris-based marketing groups Publicis and Havas. P24
Revenues of US cable operator Comcast rises. P24

THE TIMES

Music pirate Kazaa pays 100m pounds to go legal. P11
Cyber feud between The Who's Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend. P11
US epic documentary The War threatened with censorship as Bush administration's crackdown on on-air "indecency" takes hold. P37
Former AOL chief executive Steve Case apologises over Time Warner merger. P49
BT set for push into internet phone calls. P49
BBC's licence fee hit by 300m pound cut after Ofcom ruling. P49
Dan Sabbagh on ITV chief Charles Allen's future. P55
Profile of IPC Media chief executive Sylvia Auton. P55
Obituary: Professor John Raeburn, brains behind wartme "Dig for Victory" campaign. P62
Goodwood race meeting prepares to go to Channel 4. Sport, Goodwood supplement P3

THE INDEPENDENT

Paul Daniels' wife Debbie McGee launches model agency. P10
Noel Edmonds snubbed by Top of the Pops. P10
BT broadband ambitions. P36
EMI and Warner scrap merger plans. P40

DAILY TELEGRAPH

Interview with Baywatch actor David Hasselhoff. P23
Google to pay 90m dollars to click fraud victims. Business P3
EMI Warner bid fails. Business P3

DAILY MAIL

Former BBC royal correspondent Michael Cole addresses why BBC reporters don't wear ties. P12
Broadband providers are making it deliberately difficult for customers wishing to switch providers. P41

DAILY EXPRESS

A look at Top of the Pops ahead of the final show. P21, 21
EMI and Warner have scrapped plans to buy each other. P68

DAILY MIRROR

More on Simon Cowell's "affair" with another woman. P4-5
Channel Five commissions more dramas based on Perfect Day story. P23

THE SUN

Challenge TV launches celebrity darts. P29

DAILY STAR

Geri Halliwell is set to star in EastEnders, according to sources. P3
Simon Cowell denies affair rumours. P7
A new family - supposedly based on Oasis' Gallagher brothers - is to join Coronation Street. P10-11
Channel 4 is reportedly planning a Big Brother: All Stars that would feature the most loved and loathed housemates such as "nasty" Nick and Jade Goody. P12-13
Love Island coverage. P37

AND FINALLY ...

There's still life in old Who rockers Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend, who have embarked on what the paper calls a "cyber feud", according to today's Times. Townshend, who got into trouble with child protection officers three years ago with his online habits, has publicly attacked Daltrey for what he claims is his refusal to allow concerts from the band's forthcoming tour to be streamed over the web. He sarcastically ponders "some way to pay Roger for exhibiting (or should I say exploiting) his magnificent image and vocals". Boys, boys, put your toys back in the pram.

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