Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Grandstand launched on 11 October 1958 from Lime Grove Studios with Dimmock as the presenter. Dimmock presented the first two editions and three weeks later, he was replaced by sports commentator David Coleman. [2] In the autumn of 1959, Grandstand was extended by fifteen minutes and would finish at 17:00 every Saturday. [1]
GrandStand premiered in 1975 [3] with hosts Jack Buck and Bryant Gumbel (who joined Buck sometime later in the season). Prior to 1975, NBC aired the political talk show Meet the Press in the NFL pre-game show's timeslot (12:30 p.m. Eastern) against The NFL Today, the pre-game show of CBS since 1967.
What links here; Related changes; Upload file; Special pages; Permanent link; Page information; Cite this page; Get shortened URL; Download QR code
Helen Frances Rollason MBE (née Grindley; 11 March 1956 – 9 August 1999) was a British sports journalist and television presenter, who in 1990 became the first female presenter of the BBC's sports programme Grandstand. She was also a regular presenter of Sport on Friday, and of the children's programme Newsround during the 1980s.
Keith Mansfield (born 1940 in Slough, England) [1] is a British composer and arranger known for his creation of prominent television theme tunes, including the Grandstand theme for the BBC. [ 2 ] Career
Grandstand (game manufacturer), a UK/New Zealand console and game manufacturer The Grandstand , a natural rock monolith in Death Valley National Park, California, U.S. Political grandstanding , also known as Political posturing , the use of speech or actions to gain political support through emotional or affective appeals.
Between 1968 and 1983, he was a regular host of the BBC's flagship Saturday afternoon sports programme, Grandstand. Bough was one of the BBC's football commentators for the 1966 World Cup in England and covered the match at Ayresome Park in Middlesbrough where North Korea defeated Italy 1–0, [ 9 ] in a game regarded as one of the biggest ...
World of Sport is a British television sport programme which ran on ITV between 2 January 1965 and 28 September 1985 in competition with the BBC's Grandstand.Like Grandstand, the programme ran throughout Saturday afternoon.