Do you think we could get a local channel to cover the VCU Reg? Maybe 35, 12, or 8 would do it. I personally would like channel 12.

A friend of mine's mom works at 12, mabey we can get a spot there. Spark 2 was on 6 once.

Last time i saw the competition on TV was in 2001, the ONE minute report of channel 1 news..... they showed an amaizing 5 to 8 seconds of it and then moved on....... We NeeD full brocast of atleast the Nationals, so people that can't attend ( like me ), could know whats going on down there....

How about public acess television.:)

Dean got money, he should buy all this channels off, :yikes:

FIRST Regional Competiton: $25,000
Segway R&D: $6,000,000
Owning ABC News to publicies FIRST: priceless

Tech TV is a TV station from Microsoft.

Are you sure? I thought it was owned by Ziff-Davis (it used to be ZDTV, but they thought the name was too cryptic).

Hey wait a minute... how bout Dean buys disney or some other big company that owns tv stations...

Down with Disney. Up with Dean. Down with Disney. Up with Dean. Down with Disney. Up with Dean. Down with Disney. Up with Dean. Down with Disney. Up with Dean. Down with Disney. Up with Dean.

:D

Sorry, I just had to try that.

But seriously, he should buy Disney.

No, not anymore. A few years ago it was purchased by the guy who helped to start Microsoft. His name is Paul Allen, I think.

'98 was the last year ESPN covered the Championship. I think the first year they ran it was '95. They put together a one hour program which was run at least once each on ESPN and ESPN2.

I don't know why they quit running FIRST on ESPN, but it could be that the ratings were not high enough. I'm sure quite a bit of money was spent putting together the very professionally done broadcasts those few years. Still, it would be nice to see it return, but it might return to ESPN only if the Championship returns to Disney.

Paul Allen is very far away from the "Microsoft philosophy". I think TechTV is a really awesome network, and like I think you might've been implying, they do not support Microsoft devoutly. If you watch the ScreenSavers a lot, they condemn Microsoft's actions...not to say they're anti-Microsoft, but I'm just saying they have a broad spectrum of support for many platforms, products, and companies.

I'll e-mail them to see if we can maybe atleast get a spot on there...

*jeremy

So, uh, where can we find your cult compound?

Dean can't afford Disney. Sorry.

Yeaht thats true, maybe... just maybe. If a group of us gets together and takes all our footage and makes a kind of documentary. We could give it to TECHTV or someone to air