Layla Kayleigh leaves the World Poker Tour, but does anyone hear?

The beautiful co-hostess of the WPT showed herself to the door (story as broken by Wicked Chops Poker) after just one season with the declining poker tour who's very own existence is in jeopardy as we'll get to in a second.

Her quote about the move:

"Also you should know that as much fun as I had on season 6 of the World Poker Tour, I will not be returning for a 2nd season.
WPT were kind enough to ask me back for a 2nd season, however after much thought and deliberation I decided that I really want to minimize traveling in my schedule this year, focus more on my health and personal relationships, and they were very understanding to where I was coming from.
Might I add, that I had the most adventurous time on the road, learned so much about life and poker! and most importantly gained the most amazing friendship with my dear friend Kim Lansing (who I really hope lands the hosting position for Season 7)"

In her quote Layla mentioned co-hostess Kim Lansing, she is currently trying out for the hostess position while very existence of the WPT could be in limbo. Pokerati has the report about how some executive changes at the Game Show Network may affect the tour's viability after switch over to GSN from The Travel Channel which hosted every other season and has already affected another very popular High Stakes Poker show.
Gabe and AJ are possibly hanging it up after four seasons after the show's renewal is at stake was not renewed and the new CEO may have a anti-gambling hand in the future decision according to noted poker authority Oliver Tse:

1. HSP *** WAS *** GSN's #1 show until WPT managed to draw over TWICE as many viewers compared to HSP, on the same day of the week in the same time slot (Mondays at 9pm Eastern/Pacific).
Once WPT posted its ratings numbers (which were good enough for WPT to collect the first tier of ratings bonus, but is certainly not good enough for WPT to continue to sell itself as a "sport" due to the older audience skew), I suspected immediately that HSP would NOT be renewed.
The big question: will GSN renew WPT by the June 1, 2008 deadline?
The old President/CEO who was in charge of GSN when GSN signed WPT, Rich Cronin, "resigned" in July 2007. (I suspected that Cronin was ousted.)
Liberty Media, which owns 50% of GSN, installed one of its men, David Goldhill, as the new President/CEO of GSN in August 2007.
Mr. Goldhill was brought in by Liberty Media to "fix" GSN, which has developed a major demographics problem under Mr. Cronin's watch. GSN's median prime time viewer was a lady in her mid-to-high-50's who plays bingo at church on weekends.
Given that GSN paid WPTE at least 3 times as much money per hour ($150,000 per hour, excluding the ratings bonus) for the WPT as GSN had paid for every other program in its history, GSN obviously wanted results, i.e. a predominately young, male audience.
However, WPT has lost a lot of momentum from its heydays in 2004 and 2005.
Even though WPT's audience is younger than the typical audience of GSN during prime time, the WPT on GSN audience is NOT young enough to attract advertisers that normally sponsors "sports" TV programming (beer, soft drinks/energy drinks, mobile telephone services, sports cars and pickup trucks, etc.)
Even one particular play-for-free online poker room, PokerStars.net, cut its player sponsorship program at WPT TV final tables immediately after the first week's TV ratings became available.
The next 3 weeks will be interesting, as WPTE now has to convince Mr. Goldhill to continue to pay WPTE a rights fee for WPT on GSN. The "sales job" is never easy.

The loser in this possible loss of two very popular poker shows, are the poker fans. With the possibility of non-WSOP poker excitement on TV vanishing, will the resurgence of live and online poker be enough to get a different station to carry the flags of these shows?