Something I noticed about sports scores in the morning

Master of Logic Joined: Oct 04, 2003 Posts: 9384

I just noticed something stupid on a local channel. The ticker at the bottem was displaying scores from a variety of sports. Mind you it is 7am. No pro sports on this contenent are played at 7am.

So why are they using the (F) graphic meaning "final". I can understand that for 11pm news because of injury delays or penalty delays or weather delays which can cause a game to run late. BUT wouldnt it be obvious if you are seeing an NHL score at 7am that it would be a "final". I dont think the veiwers if they didnt see that would go, "Hey the game is still on" at 7am.

Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:49 pm

Well, one reason is to simply be consistent with the rest of the day.

The other reason is that the "F" is likely coded into whatever software it is they use to update those graphics, where a game can be in one of two states: in progress or finished. Having options for in progress, finished, and "early enough in the day that we don't care" doesn't really make sense.


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