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It's all about money. I work at an abc affiliate and I know that any local station or network won't put anything on the air unless it will either make them money from ratings (because they have to buy programing) or it is paid programing. Paid programming is not only expensive it is on a station by station or provider by provider basis thus it would not be on everywhere.
The best bet for FIRST would be to get Disney to put it on ABC as an affiliate swap. An affiliate swap is when the affiliate gets the show via satellite, tapes it, and then shows it in place of network specified reruns or during local programing.
If this was the case FIRST would have to let teams know about this before the show is sent to the stations so the teams can put pressure the pressure on to air it. A station will air it if they think that they will get viewers for it instead of a rerun.
And then you have the other side of the story... It costs A TON of money to produce any type of good show. I know FIRST tapes the events, but to make it a good show they would have to follow some teams around and hope that they would go on to win. FIRST used to show a previous years compeition in mid-December on ESPN.
Teams can help out by getting local tv media involved with there season to help the local FIRST community grow.
It would be great to see FIRST on TV again in itr's whole nature rather than in a news program.
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Jay
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