[Dan Richardson]

Well First off covering FIRST would be cool but you have to go First how would you like to cover it.

So far I've heard MTV, ESPN, Discovery, and TLC mentioned a bunch and heres what I see from them.

First you need a type of show you want to have, for instance, you want MTV, well somehow you have to make your series dramatic, not dramatic as drink mountain dew to you pass out and get rushed to the hospital, but it has to be generally fun to watch. But what would you watch, nationals, regionals, build season? I would kinda forsee something like " What happens when 5 single nerds males meet up with 5 single girls nerd meet up and try to build a robot.. but theres a twist!! 3 of them have to go before the end of build season," you would have a hard time to keep it interesting in the view of the general public and keep a fair view on FIRST. In this case you have bad press.. a distorted view of FIRST. ( mayb I'm more thinking of fox tho )

ESPN sounds like we've been there done that, and relations were not strong.

Discovery Channel, everyone keeps talking about there series but remember they run a lot of specials, ie ( all their dinosaur animations.. look what I can do on the computer now! shows )

If you could get an hour special on FIRST this would prob. be the ideal place to do it. But you really need to consider what kind of show they do. Do you do it AMERICAN chopper style. Do you Monster Garage it? Monster garage seems a it? Or would you do a documentory on FIRST in general and concentrate on a few teams.

In this Monster Garage style would seem to be the best offer.. but you'd also have to cover 42 days ( or whatever it is ) and competition ( nationals and regionals ) in an hour show. It could be done as a mini series, mayb. This is prob. our best bet at any type of show however 1 team would get all the press, and it would need to be stressed that FIRST is a real program and everyone can get involved.

I just like the idea because everytime the team gets something for free I wana hear " FREEBee " heh..

if you want TLC.. well you've gotta do like trading robots where you have 2 days to redesign the robot

but see this is the challenge I could go on forever about this.. You first have to spin an Idea ( unless you just want plain and simple documentory ) then you decide on which station it would best flow with.. and you present them to mayb the top 3 choices.

Obviously this could not really be done without going through the powers that be.

But instead of arguin about which stations we would look good on.. spin a tv show or an idea to flow with.

Dan

Ohh and Ps. nobodies mentioned Comedy Central yet.. in this case the whole passing out on mountain dew is a good idea