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OVERVIEW The show, whose iconic theme tune, composed especially for the programme by Keith Mansfield , is one of the most recognisable on British television, dominates Saturday afternoons on BBC ONE (just called BBC Television before 1964), and has covered nearly every major sporting event such as the Boat Race , Wimbledon , FA Cup Final, the Olympics , the Commonwealth Games , the Grand National and the Football World Cup . There was a spin-off from the show launched in 1981 named ''Sunday Grandstand'' which runs on BBC Two. Towards the end of full time in the late afternoon, the Football results were once brought up on screen via a digital device dubbed the Teleprinter, with each character of the results displayed one by one. Although techonology has since improved, the modern-day graphics (the Videprinter) used by the programme still emulate the original typing system. One famous section of the programme called Final Score covers the main football results. It was introduced not only to update fans of the day's sporting results, but also to give the results of the (from the first programme until his death in 1995) and Tim Gudgin . Between 1965 and 1985 ''Grandstand'' faced competition from ITV 's '' World Of Sport '', but ITV eventually decided to drop Saturday afternoon sport in favour of other programmes. On 24th April 2006, after 48 years, the BBC announced the end of Grandstand on a Saturday afternoon, due to the increasing use of interactive services and the need to meet the challenges of the digital, on-demand world.1 This had been first hinted by the dropping of the "Grandstand" title from the BBC's coverage of the Commonwealth Games and Winter Olympics. HISTORIC, NOTEWORTHY OR BIZARRE LIVE EVENTS BROADCAST
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