Edited sentence: Although Hot Jazz Saturday Night has been a centerpiece of jazz programming in the Washington, DC, area for most of the show's 38 years on the air and shows no signs of flagging, WAMU station management in June 2018 announced that it was cancelling the program so that it could re-run NPR shows that were already represented elsewhere on the station's schedule, as well including additional redundant news programs.As a result, WAMU has signaled its intention to abandon locally-produced cultural programming entirely, relying instead on syndicated programming produced elsewhere that can be easily accessed without actually listening to WAMU.Hot Jazz Saturday Night, long considered one of the premiere jazz programs in the United States, is hosted by Rob Bamberger, a recognized expert on music from the 1920s through the 1940s.Listeners have called on the WAMU station management to reconsider its decision to abandon Hot Jazz Saturday Night and other cultural programming