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BBC Darts evolution
Up to 1997, much like old snooker, the score flashed up on screen every so often. The design of the aston varied over the years, but it contained all the relevant info.
Then in 1998 the BBC started a permanent on-screen score with a rather garish colour scheme tucked into the bottom right of the screen, only on-show during split-screen shots. In 1999 that was toned down to a rather classy black/red/green effort, plus they had a separate full-width scoreboard when the leg came down to makeable outs. 2000 - 2003 saw the pastely silver, teal and salmon effort on screen, which also had a full-width version for checkout attempts. 2004 saw everything tidied up and standardised, with this stacked, neat red block version. It went "3D" in 2007 and then a year later, bizarrely, went full width for the whole match. This obviously wasn't popular as it reverted in 2009 (with a permanent BBC Sport slug sticking out the bottom) before getting its current design in 2011. I say current, as BDO darts aren't on the BBC any more, and probably won't be again, it may be its LAST design.
Proponents of the theory that television is dumbing down can point out the move from "Best of x sets" to "First to y sets" if they wish.
An interesting footnote about the last look is that, as the coverage was shared between BBC and BT, BT used their own scoreboard however this was "skinned" for BBC highlights shows. However because BT put their gfx in a slightly different place to BBC, due to placement of the BT Sport DOG, their box was hard right to the safe area while BBC's was flush left to the split screen.
Up to 1997, much like old snooker, the score flashed up on screen every so often. The design of the aston varied over the years, but it contained all the relevant info.
Then in 1998 the BBC started a permanent on-screen score with a rather garish colour scheme tucked into the bottom right of the screen, only on-show during split-screen shots. In 1999 that was toned down to a rather classy black/red/green effort, plus they had a separate full-width scoreboard when the leg came down to makeable outs. 2000 - 2003 saw the pastely silver, teal and salmon effort on screen, which also had a full-width version for checkout attempts. 2004 saw everything tidied up and standardised, with this stacked, neat red block version. It went "3D" in 2007 and then a year later, bizarrely, went full width for the whole match. This obviously wasn't popular as it reverted in 2009 (with a permanent BBC Sport slug sticking out the bottom) before getting its current design in 2011. I say current, as BDO darts aren't on the BBC any more, and probably won't be again, it may be its LAST design.
Proponents of the theory that television is dumbing down can point out the move from "Best of x sets" to "First to y sets" if they wish.
An interesting footnote about the last look is that, as the coverage was shared between BBC and BT, BT used their own scoreboard however this was "skinned" for BBC highlights shows. However because BT put their gfx in a slightly different place to BBC, due to placement of the BT Sport DOG, their box was hard right to the safe area while BBC's was flush left to the split screen.
