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) Grandstand (game manufacturer) Grandstand (also known as Grandstand Leisure Products) was a video game console and electronic game manufacturer and distributor. It was based in the United Kingdom and New Zealand and was active in the 1970s and 1980s. The company behind the "Grandstand" label was Adam Leisure Group PLC of Harrogate, UK. The company chiefly imported electronic products from other manufacturers such as Epoch, Tomy & Entex, selling them in the UK re-branded under the "Grandstand" name. Some imported products' names were changed for the UK market. For example, the Tomy tabletop electronic game sold in the US as