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BBC blows final whistle on Football Focus as show scrapped after 52 years

by Maverick
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  • 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 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.

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