Episode #4 featuring Week 3 event coverage from Centerline, Escanaba and Midland aired yesterday and is up on the Robozonetv.com website.
Check it out fans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra9uu-wlRoU
Richard, to answer your question:
This is a very important topic for us.
We want the show to have an insider and outsider focus: it needs to have enough details about the sport and the events to be interesting for those who already compete or support FRC, while at the same time be general enough to attract outsiders without confusion. FRC is difficult to communicate as compared to most sports, we have many short matches and many teams at each event, as compared to just 2 teams at most mainstream sporting events. This poses challenges in clarity of communication to outsiders, but we are working through our second season and are improving. We do weekly feedback reviews and try to implement continuous improvement ideas each week.
In order to be a legitimate "sport" we need to work to grow a viewer base of non-participants, with the obvious hope that many of these people or their children will eventually want to become participants themselves. All of this will help to bring attention and support to our sport; despite 25 years of growth, FRC is still very much unknown to the general public.
FOXSportsDet collects viewership metrics on all of their programs.
At this point in the season, we do not have a summary of these results yet.
We will share as much of this as we are allowed once we have it.
All I can share at this point is that the FOX programming director appears to be happy with the Stronghold game dynamic, the Robozone program format, and with initial viewership levels. So far so good,
Input and feedback is welcome from anyone.
Jim Z