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The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ issued a press statement at 4.00pm today (26 February 2010).

"Last summer, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Trust challenged the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ to develop a new strategy to meet the opportunities and the threats of the rapidly changing media landscape.

"Although the details have yet to be agreed – and today's press speculation is therefore premature – the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ expects to present its proposals to the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Trust in the near future.

"At the core of the strategy will be a renewed commitment to serving the British public with programmes and services of the highest quality. Audiences admire and value the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s digital services and the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ will remain fully committed to online and to digital television and radio.

"But the new strategy will lay out ways of focusing and concentrating licence fee investment on areas and services which are distinctive and best fulfil the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s public purposes, which meet the expectations of licence-payers but also leave plenty of space for commercial media providers."

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Press Office