Helen Rollason Helen Rollason Helen Frances Rollason, MBE ("née" Grindley: 11 March 1956 – 9 August 1999) was a British sports journalist and television presenter, who in 1990 became the first female presenter of the BBC's sports programme "Grandstand". She was also a regular presenter of "Sport on Friday", and of the children's programme "Newsround" during the 1980s. Born in London, Rollason studied to become a PE teacher before entering radio broadcasting in 1980. After directing sport related content for Channel 4, where she helped to bring American football to British television, she anchored coverage of the 1987 World Student Games and
Grandstand (game manufacturer) Pinball Wizard, an electric wall-plug based pinball machine. The black & white T.V. Game 2000 and the colour capable T.V. Game 3000 were fully integrated Pong-derived consoles sold under the Grandstand label in the mid-to-late 1970s. Subsequently, the primitive cartridge-based Grandstand Colour Programmable video game console (sold in New Zealand as the "Mark III Video Game") and several compatible Grandstand programmable video game cartridges were introduced. These consoles were still essentially "Pong" type affairs, but had a limited selection of cartridges available, each housing a different General Instruments processor chip. This arrangement allowed for some variation in gameplay including the