{"id":3401,"date":"2026-09-01T22:38:45","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/?p=3401"},"modified":"2026-10-14T03:57:05","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T01:57:05","slug":"ski-sunday-is-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/uncategorized\/ski-sunday-is-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Ski Sunday is no more"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/976\/cpsprodpb\/640f\/live\/16a777f0-a604-11f1-83fc-0df57e6b3866.jpg.webp\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The BBC announced today that Ski Sunday, the BBC&#8217;s winter sports programme, is to end after nearly 50 years.<br><br>First broadcast in 1978, it featured the best of winter sports action, but changing audience behaviours and the tough financial decisions needed to meet savings requirements mean BBC Sport has sacrificed its flagship ski program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Winter Sundays will never be the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">Timing has always been part of alpine sport, from race results to the routines that shape a day on the mountain. Readers who also follow watches may find this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globenewswire.com\/news-release\/2026\/08\/11\/3343112\/0\/en\/superluxuryreps-is-expands-super-clone-watches-collection-with-greater-focus-on-qc-and-precision.html\">super clone watches<\/a> feature an interesting look at how different models are compared beyond appearance alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BBC announced today that Ski Sunday, the BBC&#8217;s winter sports programme, is to end after nearly 50 years. First broadcast in 1978, it featured the best of winter sports action, but changing audience behaviours and the tough financial decisions needed to meet savings requirements mean BBC Sport has sacrificed its flagship ski program. Winter &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/uncategorized\/ski-sunday-is-no-more\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ski Sunday is no more&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[292,331,158],"class_list":["post-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-audi","tag-sion","tag-winter-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3401"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3513,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions\/3513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oatridge.co.uk\/nic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}