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Grandstand is a British television sport programme. Broadcast between 1958 and 2007, it is one of the BBC's longest running sports shows, alongside BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Its first presenter was Peter Dimmock. There were only four main presenters of the programme during its long history: David Coleman (who took over almost immediately from Dimmock), Frank Bough, Des Lynam, and Steve Rider. Changes in the structure of the programme during its last few years, however, meant it did not have a regular main presenter during this time. It was created by Paul Fox and Bryan Cowgill and launched on 11 October 1958. The show was one of the most recognisable on British television, dominating Saturday afternoons on BBC One (just called BBC Television before 1964) and covering nearly every major sporting event in Britain such as the FA Cup final, Wimbledon, the Grand National and the University Boat Race, as well as major international events like the Olympic Games, the Commonwealth Games and the FIFA World Cup. A Sunday edition, simply named Sunday Grandstand, launched in 1981 and ran on BBC Two, from time to time including the Ski Sunday section. Despite the impression given by a number of TV nostalgia websites, the show's iconic theme tune, composed especially for the programme by Keith Mansfield, was not the original theme tune, only being first heard on 11 October 1975. The original tune was "News Scoop" by Len Stevens, which was used until 1971 and can be heard in the Cult TV section of the BBC's own website. From 1971 to 1975, another, little-remembered tune was used. A re-recorded version of the theme was also introduced in 1999, but complaints caused it to be quickly reverted back to the original. [1] In the late afternoon, with many Football League and Scottish Football League matches approaching full-time, the famous Final Score section would come on. This covered not only the results from all the matches, but also gave the results of the football pools. Perhaps the section's most famous feature was the Teleprinter, a digital device at the bottom of the screen which printed out the results as they came through, with the characters in each result appearing one by one. In its final few years, the show was rarely hosted from a studio and as such there was no longer a main presenter. The show tended to be broadcast from wherever the main feature that day was taking place, and the host would be associated with that feature - for example, if it was snooker then Hazel Irvine would host, if it was racing or rugby legaue then it would be Clare Balding, and if it was rugby union it would be John Inverdale. On 24 April 2006, the BBC announced that Grandstand would be gradually phased out after nearly half a century, due to the increasing use of interactive services and the need to meet the challenges of the digital, on-demand world. This had been hinted by the dropping of the "Grandstand" title from the BBC's coverage of the major international sporting events, like the World Cup as well as that year's Winter Olympics and Commonwealth Games. It was originally intended that the show's cancellation would take place in 2009; however, with little or no notice, this was brought forward to 28 January 2007. The final Saturday edition of Grandstand was broadcast on 27 January 2007, and the last edition of all after 48 years was broadcast the following day, 28 January 2007, a short tribute to the history of the show forming its final feature. Sport still features prominently on the BBC's programme schedules on Saturday afternoon as well as on BBC Red Button, the interactive service available on digital television. This film footage is from the Archive Collection held and administered by the Alexandra Palace Television Society. http://www.apts.org.uk ~ APTS ~ Preserving the televisual past for the digital future
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