Make the most of the Grandstand theme - it won't be around for much longer. Is the BBC right to put its flagship, 48 year old sports show out to grass, or is this another case of a key piece of British broadcasting heritage being needlessly cast aside?
The BBC's argument is broadly that with people increasingly consuming sport via pay-TV, and broadband and mobile services also becoming more popular, having a four hour block of sports programming under the Grandstand umbrella brand in a fixed spot every Saturday afternoon is an anachronism.
BBC1 will still showcase individual sports on a Saturday afternoon - the corporation has the rights to major events including Wimbledon, the Derby, the Grand National, Six Nations rugby union, Olympics and Commonwealth Games for several years.
The BBC wants the flexibility to schedule major events later in the afternoon and early evening, when people have finished their weekend shopping and DIY, and audiences will be larger. It also wants to rid itself of those Saturday afternoons when Grandstand played host to more minor sports.
However, Saturday afternoons will never be quite the same again - remember the fight in the Grandstand studio back in Des Lynam's day as anchor, which turned out to be an April Fools?
