Very disturbed to read of this new threat. It's exactly what happened a few years ago with BBC Local Radio channels Leeds et al dropping Henry Ayrton's exceedingly well-regarded folk & roots show at a whim to concentrate on yet more talk, talk, chat, more chat and endless sport which the programme controllers decreed was what listeners really really want. Oh yeah??? I don't know of a single listener who wants more sport - we're all desperately sick of these mindless idiots in charge of the radio waves pandering to the Great God Sport (or the Lord Almighty Phone-in) and denying us folks our limited fix of the important stuff, the true folk culture of this fair land. Back on me soapbox....
MM