Is your company investment-ready? Mark Browning CEO of Zinc Media Group tells us what you need to do to get investment in a media business.

Also on the programme: as the BBC publishes its annual report, things get spicy as Auntie takes on the streamers... media writer Manori Ravindran picks apart the commentary.

All that plus: has Michael Sheen got some explaining to do? One indie thinks so... and, in the Media Quiz, we open up the Media Transfer Window.

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What The Media Club has been reading this week:

BBC fights back in its annual report

Disney identifies 4 audience types in streaming landscape

Michael Sheen and Channel 4 questioned over ‘originality’ of debt documentary

The Sun stems losses as The Times bags £60m profit

Radio 4 saves the 90min audio drama slot

Bauer completes Clear Channel Europe-North acquisition

Dish From Waitrose team launch indie

Rachel Sylvester named Observer political editor

Reach CEO Jim Mullen steps down with immediate effect

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