Final whistle blows on BBC's Football Focus after more than 50 years on air

BBC said that “changing audience behaviours” had prompted it to act.

Dion Dublin presents on Football Focus by BBC Sport (Photo by Matt McNulty/Getty Images)

The BBC says Football Focus will be taken off air at the end of the season after more than 50 years.

The Saturday lunchtime programme was first broadcast in 1974 but the corporation said in a press release that “changing audience behaviours” had prompted it to act.