[Lil' Lavery]

I'd rather not see FIRST on ESPN again. They had to blur logoes off of robots, and other stuff like that, and it was barely watchable, much less entertaining.
Plus, it can't really be broadcast live anyway. No time for commercials, so a big network like ESPN, CBS, or Discovery would lose all the commercial money, which is alot more than a FIRST competition would draw. Unless you want to drop 1 commercial between each and every match, which would make the broadcast horribly choppy and barely watchable.
You could tape the event and play it later, as they used to do. Add interviews, and other things to spice it up a bit. But then, there's absolutely no way you could fit even close to the entire event in a single episode, it would take an entire season's worth of shows for each regional. You could go elimination rounds only, but then you lose half the fun.