Ford Super Sunday
| Nissan Super Sunday | |
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| Presented by | David Jones |
| Opening theme | Honeyblood – "Ready for the Magic" |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Production | |
| Running time | Variable |
| Release | |
| Original network | Sky Sports |
| Picture format |
576i (PAL) (1992-2005) 1080i (HDTV) (2005-) |
| Original release | 16 August 1992 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
Super Sunday (known as Nissan Super Sunday for sponsorship reasons) is Sky Sports' flagship live association football programme, broadcasting live Premier League football on most Sundays over the course of a season. The main live game will typically kick off at 4:00pm, often following a 1:30pm game, on Sky Sports 1.
It had been presented since its debut in August 1992 by former TV-am host Richard Keys alongside a variety of guest match pundits until January 2011. From the 2005–06 season, former Liverpool player Jamie Redknapp joined Keys as a regular pundit. The commentary team of Martin Tyler and former Scotland striker Andy Gray became synonymous with Sky's football coverage until Gray was sacked in January 2011 although other commentators may be used. In April 2011, former Manchester United defender Gary Neville was confirmed as his replacement.
The first match shown on Super Sunday was between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool on 16 August 1992, a match Forest won 1-0. This first broadcast featured a digital on-screen graphic (DOG) throughout the game showing the score and match time. It was the first time a UK broadcaster had done such a thing and DOGs are now part of coverage of virtually all televised sports worldwide.
In the first four seasons of the programme, Ford Super Sunday – the title due to major sponsorship with the Ford Motor Company – used to start at 2:00pm, giving viewers two hours build-up before the slightly untraditional kick-off time of 4:00pm, as opposed to a Saturday kick-off at 3:00pm. Eventually, Sky decided this was a bit too much, and in 1996 decided to start the programme at 3:00pm instead. From the 2004–05 season, some Super Sunday coverage started as early as 1:00pm if two live games were shown that day. From the 2005–06, coverage began at 3:30pm if only one live game was shown.
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