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Presented by Matt Wells and produced by Ben Green

Media Talk podcast: The AOL/HuffPo deal, Radio 4, and TalkSport

Matt Wells has Dan Sabbagh and Maggie Brown; in the pod for another edition of Media Talk.

We start by analysing AOL's $315m takeover of the Huffington Post. Dan belives the deal marks the future of news, but Jemima Kiss, who joins us on the phone, thinks it's going to be an unmitigated disaster. AOL, after all, has form here.

Elsewhere, we look at the week's radio news. TalkSport has signed disgraced former Sky Sports presenters Richard Keys and Andy Gray, while the bosses at BBC Radio 4 have been told to target new, younger listeners, especially those not living in London and the south-east.

Finally, we look at Big Brother's imminent trasfer to Channel 5; tweeting in court, Question Time's move to Glasgow; and the future of Shine Television.

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