If I remember right NASA began webcasting in 1999 with the SV Regional, and has webcast every kickoff and every championship plus several regional events every year. This is before anyone else had even heard of webcasting and most connectivity was over 28kbaud dial ups. NASA provides this service to FIRST at no cost to FIRST - it would be many 100Ks to purchase this service commercially. I know Dave and others have to sweat blood to get these events to work. If It wasn't for the webcasting/broadcasting of the kickoff there is no way FIRST would have grown from 7 to 37 regional and from 300 to 1300 teams in 8 years. I happened to be able to get both the cable and webcast at my home, and other than the 45 second buffering delay, I though the webcast was peachy keen.

So if you were really serious about unsung heros, talk about the NASA Contractors and Civil servants that bust their chops making sure you get media.