[themagic8ball]

Guys CBS is great, but I think we need to get our national competition broadcast on ESPN. They broadcast the national spelling bee for newton's sake, I think people would love to see a bunch of competing robots and get excited about FIRST. I know NASA broadcast's the competition but nobody I know gets the NASA channel and people will only go on the web if they know about it. If we can get on ESPN, FIRST will be advertised on the TV Guide channel and everyone will see it and have a chance to get interested.

I think if we can get a lot of people (the CD members) to contact ESPN we may be able to get somewhere on this subject. So who's with me?

EDIT:
Upon further reveiw, it doesnt appear that ESPN will take ideas from anyone unless they are affiliated w/ ESPN. So either we need to get ESPN as a sponsor or lets try to get on as many channels as possible. I say we try to get FIRST to officially help us try to get on a Basic Cable channel or even a regular broadcast channel (NBC, CBS, etc..). The only thing we have to compete w/ at the end of april is basketball playoffs, so other channels need something to combat that.