Ski Sunday
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Ski Sunday is the BBC Sports weekly magazine-style television show covering winter sports, broadcast in the United Kingdom on Sundays in an early evening time-slot.
Originally launched in the late 1970s on the back of the 1976 Winter Olympics, later forming part of Sunday Grandstand when it became an all year show in 1998 and presented and commentated by British broadcasting luminaries such as Ron Pickering and David Vine (who presented the show for 20 years until he took semi-retirement in 1996, He still did snooker and show-jumping until retiring for good in 2000), the show focused primarily on the blue riband events of downhill skiing and Super G.
As the British appetite for alpine skiing changed over time, the programme has experimented with different formats and time-slots. The current (2007) show is presented by, amongst others, Hazel Irvine, Matt Chilton, Graham Bell and Ed Leigh and is broadcast on BBC2 at 4.35pm, covering most forms of skiing and snowboarding.
Following the final edition of Grandstand in early 2007, Ski Sunday has become one of the longest-running BBC Sports television programmes still being broadcast.
The iconic theme music to the programme (called Pop Looks Bach by Sam Fonteyn) has changed very little over the years and is well-known to the British public. It has been re-mixed and sampled many times over. The music has also become the theme tune for the BBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics.
