(28-06-2022, 02:08 PM)Steve Williams Wrote: Yes, and before that, the 2001 package got a sneak preview in June 2001 when they showed Greece vs England live. That was quite a high profile broadcast for BBC Sport, as it was a week after the last Premier League Match of the Day before they lost the rights, so they used this match as a signifier that they were still serious about football and a major player, and the start of a new era of live matches, even though it was the last match of the season. So they launched the new titles and graphics on that match, and then everything else, including Wimbledon and all the other summer sport, used the old set until they were officially launched at the start of the new football season in August.
Interesting, I was under the impression that the 2003 set were the first time they had introduced a standardised graphics style across all of BBC Sport, but clearly standardised packages are much older than I thought - though that does make sense given multi-sport programmes like Grandstand. The problem with Sports graphics is that they don't get the same coverage in terms of caps as News graphics do on presentation websites.