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Media Talk: ITV in crisis

On this week's Media Talk, Matt Wells is joined by Emily Bell and James Robinson to discuss job cuts, shrinking budgets, and the crisis at ITV. Is this the end for free-to-air, advertiser-funded television?

Also in the podcast, Nick Logan, the most innovative magazine man of his generation, talks to us about the collapse of Arena, the title he founded 22 years ago. There's more from our exclusive interview with Logan as your Media Talk Extra podcast - where we talk about his time at the NME, setting up Smash Hits, and how he's fallen out of love with the industry.

Finally, Stephen Brook pops in to analyse the fiasco on University Challenge; muse on the return of Moving Wallpaper; and marvel at the wonder that is Dancing on Ice.

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