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Moderately shrewd about the broadcasting medium (6)

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fairly

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'moderately' is the definition.
('fairly' can be a synonym of 'moderately')

'about the broadcasting medium' is the wordplay.
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'the broadcasting' becomes 'fly' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'medium' becomes 'air' (air is a kind of medium).
'fly' placed around 'air' is 'FAIRLY'.

'shrewd' is the link.
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(Other definitions for fairly that I've seen before include "In an evenhanded manner - somewhat" , "pretty" , "Quite" , "Moderately" , "Evenhandedly" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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