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Growth of digital platforms reflected in audience fall
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‘We face difficult decisions around the licence fee’
Football Focus, once a mainstay of football fans’ match day, is being scrapped at the end of this season by the BBC after 52 years.
The Saturday lunchtime television programme, first broadcast in 1974, has been a staple of the BBC’s coverage for decades, but the UK’s national broadcaster says that viewers’ shift to other media means the appetite for the show has waned.
Continue reading…Growth of digital platforms reflected in audience fall‘We face difficult decisions around the licence fee’Football Focus, once a mainstay of football fans’ match day, is being scrapped at the end of this season by the BBC after 52 years.The Saturday lunchtime television programme, first broadcast in 1974, has been a staple of the BBC’s coverage for decades, but the UK’s national broadcaster says that viewers’ shift to other media means the appetite for the show has waned. Continue reading…