BBC's Ski Sunday to end after nearly 50 years

Sincity Press Staff 1 week ago 1 min read 12
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The BBC is to end its Ski Sunday programme after nearly 50 years.

Ski Sunday, the BBC's wintertime sports programme, is to extremity aft astir 50 years.

First broadcast successful 1978, it featured the champion of wintertime sports action, with Ed Leigh and Chemmy Alcott its astir caller presenting team.

"Changing assemblage behaviours and the pugnacious fiscal decisions needed to conscionable savings requirements mean BBC Sport indispensable continually reappraisal however it delivers worth for licence interest payers and serves audiences crossed each platforms. This determination forms portion of that process," said a BBC Sport statement.

Philip Bernie, caput of BBC Sport events, said Ski Sunday "has been a genuinely iconic programme".

He added: "Generations of viewers person enjoyed its sum of the champion successful wintertime sports.

"We are enormously arrogant of the relation it has played successful bringing these moments to audiences crossed the UK, and highly grateful to the superb radical who person delivered them, not slightest the existent outstanding team.

"These decisions are ne'er easy, but arsenic assemblage viewing habits germinate and we enactment to present worth for licence interest payers, we person to marque pugnacious choices.

"We stay committed to bringing audiences the precise champion of wintertime sport, supra each astatine the Winter Olympics, crossed BBC Sport's platforms."