No it's not official but it sounds good as a headline.

At the risk of sounding like Sir Humphrey Appleby:

Officially we still don't know anything.
Unofficially it's very likely that Ali will have a slot in another programme so it's not that far from the probable truth that the programme called Sounds of Folk will no longer exist.

To which Jim Hacker would reply "Why don't you speak English, Humpy!"