Sport on Friday

Sport on Friday was a BBC television sports programme that ran from 1987 until 1997. It was broadcast during the winter months - October until April - and was a companion show to both Sportsnight and Grandstand.

The programme began the previous year as Sports Afternoon and was part of the BBC's newly launched daytime service. Sports Afternoon was broadcast on Wednesday afternoons between 2.35pm and 3.50pm.^[1] and from 10 December there was a three-minute newsbreak at 3pm.

For the following year, the programme was renamed as Sport on Friday and moved to a Friday afternoon slot, with a slightly extended running time, beginning at either 2.15pm or 2.20pm and running until 3.50pm with a three-minute newsbreak at 3pm, although the programme was sometimes extended until as late as 5.30pm when it was showing extensive live coverage.

Its main live coverage was of snooker, bowls and horse racing and when not showing live sport the programme would often include features on the forthcoming weekend's sporting action.

The programme was initially presented by David Icke until he was replaced by Helen Rollason in 1990.

Regular hosts[]

• David Icke (1986-1990)
• Helen Rollason (1990–1997)

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