BBC scraps Grandstand
 

Can this be true after 48 years the beeb are going to scraps Grandstand
:cry5:


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4940490.stm

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Absolute disgrace if true. What next? Scrapping Eastenders?
*Cues loads of posts asking what the license fee pays for these days*

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Grandstand is pretty crap though in comparison to Sky.

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Funny really, the more TV sport has been moved to subscription & advert funded channels, the less I watch, and the less I feel it is worth watching.

Grandstand, as I'll remember it, with things like motorcycle scrambling & amateur athletics, was about the sportsmanship, the taking part, not just winning at all costs.

So while I'll be sad to see it go, I feel I am also seeing the demise of an era where 'well played' was, at least, as satisfying as getting a boot sponsorship, if not more so ...

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I certainly hope so.

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Grandstand was on at a stupid time anyway.

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I'd be pretty happy with that idea :)

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Oh please. Please!

---------- Post added at 21:29 ---------- Previous post was at 21:26 ----------

As the BBC article says. Grandstand has been getting sidelined in recent years anyway. Once upon a time, everything sport on BBC1 on a Saturday afternoon was Grandstand. Now, increasingly large chunks of it have brands of their own. Football Focus went that way years ago.

Personally I have better things to do with my Saturday afternoons than sitting in front of the telly anyway, so it's no great loss to me ...

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:erm: a bit like saying putting a live football match on TV when its happening is a stupid time :rolleyes:

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Nahh.. we aint that lucky... ;)