Re: Ready For TV Yet?
 

this years game looked fun.....and amusing
plus the contact and the intensity of the teams.........yea i think it would pull in decent ratings

Re: Ready For TV Yet?
 

I think what would really help FIRST more than a TV show, is if there was a full blown documentary for the movies. I mean one guy goes to the majority of the regionals and does a documentary of teams and how they work.

Someone could easily do that in an area of many robotics teams and a regional. AKA Rochester, New York or some other place I can't think of at the moment. That person could start with the build season and watch different types of teams and how they build. A pro team, a Powerful outside of robotics team, and a rookie/basicly rookie team, and a medium team. You follow each of these teams through the build season, and than go the regional, where it goes to all the teams in the regional, shows lots of matches, and talks with everyone he can get the camera to.

Not only that...but I got the TV on Discovery Channel right now, and it's got that motorcycle show on, and I think if they could video just build seasons of about 50 teams and show one every so often, you got yourself a series. You get to see how exactly other teams build.

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FOX is the best fit in my opinion

here in orlando, our FOX station has a news, and they give intresting information to the community, about the community, im guessing alot of cites in the US have the same FOX afaliates with the same type of stories.

maybe every day or so, do a 3-4 min segment on what their local team(s) did that week for six weeks.

than FOX nationally can broadcast the competition in the markets which picked up these stories.... usually FOX plays random crap on weekdays and saturdays in the middle of march and april anyways.

the championship would be braodcasted on FOX, including those markets that did not participate in this "follow your local HS Robotics team as they build a robot" program. This would inspire them.

yes i know what all of you are going to say, how is Fox going to cover all four feilds and all that stuff at the same time. Well Local markets will pick which feilds to broadcast, considering where their local teams are playing. For regionals, local stations can have off the feild, in the pits interveiws, and all that nice stuff.

any ideas to add to this???

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I unfortunately have to disagree. 3-4 minutes is a good start but really not enough. There have been news reports on teams before but they really don't do FIRST or the teams they are about justice. additionally i would rather First not be among "random crap" and then possibly dismissed as such.

Just the other day I was watching local news and saw a minute or two segment on the Police Segway and to me the tone of it came off as a silly gadget for rich people that is unnecessary. Which is not how I or any of us feel. They quoted dean saying that the Segway would change the world, then they went on to say that that doesn't seem to have happened. This is a crazy comment because the Segway is still relatively new and expensive.

I am afraid that local news wont see us the way we and other technology enthusiasts see us. We need to work with people who like us and are like us. And unfortunately there are not many networks like that. Plus i think we would have a good shot at discovery and they would be the right place for us, not among gossip.

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But here is the question.... all local news stations arn't the same

over here, in Orlando, we have four

Channel 2 NBC, I personally don't watch this, but there pretty average

Channel 6 CBS, I don't really like them, yes they get into the community, but they are not really effective at it

Channel 9 ABC, they are the most detailed news broadcast, but i think they are starting to lose steam

Channel 35 FOX, really starting to shine here in Centreal FL, friendly news broadcast and they are into the community alot,

and 3-4 EVERY DAY, i think that is enough. if teams can show that they are really willing to do this, for example there are a bunch of teams in centreal fl

1402, 945, 1649, 233, 801, 386, 665, 1694, 1902, 1390, 1604, 1557, and many other teams in the area.

PS: for those of you in the centeal FL area, im thinking about doing this myself, any help would be greatly appreatiated, PM me.

thanks

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I could do that in the Toronto area and waterloo....actually I sent off a message to our news director suggesting just that....a series were we follow a team or two right from the planning to the build to the competition....a weekly series....who knows, they may tweak to it or they may not, then again next season I guess is a long way off. I am just still hyped like it was yesterday....I covered the GTR regionals for one Toronto station as a camera-operator and it was FUN!!! and interesting and intelligent and....the music was great.....especially the techno version of the chicken dance:)