I was always led to believe that the great innovation Sky had brought to the world was displaying the score in the top left hand corner of the telly during football matches. Which is good and very useful, especially if you turn the TV on in the middle of a game.
So why, dear listeners, do the BBC not do this for Wimbledon? It's especially annoying as a game of tennis has a lot more scoring than a game of football. The score changes every minute or so and therefore when I come in from the terrace with a glass of Pimms I like to know what the score is.
The BBC only seems to show the score when the camera is on this view below:
but not any other view. Maybe that's the only camera that has the little graphic on it.
It's because if they did show the score it'd be set in Optima (you know that), so they're actually doing you a favour.
Posted by: davidthedesigner | Jul 02, 2009 at 11:59
More to the point, when they do show the score, is it just me or is it absolutely f-cking tiny? Spent half the tournament crouched in front of the telly trying to decipher a 40 from a 30. Lord alone knows what the nice tennis-watching pensioners make of it. Think I'll write to the Daily Mail about this.
Posted by: Nick Asbury | Jul 02, 2009 at 12:43
It's just a thought, but perhaps they only show it with that specific camera angle to reinforce the fact that the game is currently in play (i.e. actual shots being hit, right there, right now), whereas with the other shots, the game is not in play.
Posted by: Neil Martin | Jul 02, 2009 at 13:50
Yeah, I thought that Neil, even though that still makes no sense.
But, no, when they have another angle and the game is in play, there's still no score.
Posted by: Ben | Jul 02, 2009 at 17:36
is that taken during that match? : http://ffffound.com/image/c3a1556b2541e4f3ed48a94e222b2b38ada903c9
(^_^)
Posted by: celinecelines | Jul 02, 2009 at 21:24
Showing the score is a great idea. However, just one thing -
there are those of us who have yet to move out of the TV dark-ages, and are still using small, fat TVs which, like seal-clubbing, should've been thrown out during the 1900's. Our telly is going green in one corner, and fails to show any text which is templated for wide-screen, or low & behold TVs of more than 37cms in diameter.
Writing this has now proved to me that we need a new telly. thanks ben.
Posted by: diana | Jul 03, 2009 at 11:17
You're welcome.
Posted by: Ben | Jul 03, 2009 at 17:41