I too am gutted at the news.

I remember a similar outcry when Henry Ayrton's folk and roots show (which served the north) was summarily axed by the bbc as a further sacrifice to the Great God Sport (all hail! - the planners misguidedly assume we are all sport nuts or else love to hear presenters babble mindlessly on peripheral and trivial so-called-political issues for hours on end). I am sick to death of sport dominating the airwaves (there are sports channels after all), and sick of being dictated to by these brainless idiots to whom the concepts of informed broadcasting, quality and integrity are anathema.
Rant over for the moment. Nurse...!