Is The BBC In Jeopardy? Plus: Zeteo UK soft launch

The BBC's annual report lands with a sharp rise in licence fee dodgers and a stark warning from new Director General Matt Brittin that the corporation is being held back by its own funding model. LBC's Iain Dale gives us his verdict on where Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy's plan to widen the licence fee to streamers goes next.

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Also on the show: a new name in British political journalism. Shehab Khan has left ITV News to become political editor of Zeteo UK, the British outpost of Mehdi Hasan's insurgent US operation. He tells us why.

All that plus: as AI learns to remix the news into whatever shape you fancy, we ask what's left for journalists to do... Banijay and All3Media complete their merger to create an £8billion giant, and Edinburgh says goodbye to its TV Festival... and in the Audio Network Media Quiz, an annual tradition returns, as we play Play Your BBC Salaries Right.

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What The Media Club has been reading this week:

BBC Annual Report: licence payers fall fastest in years

Nandy floats a streaming levy for BBC funding

Zeteo UK unveiled with Shehab Khan as political editor

Claude's 'liquid content' a serious challenge for news media

Banijay and All3Media complete $8bn merger

Edinburgh TV Festival's last schedule before Manchester move

BBC's highest paid journos

Iain Dale's memoir Have I Said Too Much? published