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) implementation of simple racing games featuring "Pong"-era graphics. However, these systems lack the flexibility found in later ROM cartridge based consoles, and there were never more than a few such processor-based cartridges released. Later, the potentially more versatile ROM Cartridge based Fairchild Channel F was licensed, rebadged and released under the Adman Grandstand label as the "Video Entertainment Computer" in the UK (pictured). The company sold rebadged SG-1000s in New Zealand. Astro Wars, Munchman, Caveman and Scramble amongst others were popular VFD-based tabletop electronic games released by Grandstand in the early 1980s. Grandstand also produced LCD-based handheld electronic games such