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Re: FIRST Championship: Made for TV?

The only type of coverage that, in my opinion, that would do any FIRST event the proper justice that it deserves is what Cable channel 4 ran in Rochester for this year's FLR. Which is basically what you see on the screen at the event. Uninterrupted and commercial free.
Therefore there is no way nay major network would even think of touching this with a ten foot pole. They can't provide the amount of coverage to do the event justice and they wouldn't get the return on the event in ad revenue to satisfy them. Outside of public access or public television or one of the science channels FIRST won't work on the major networks or any of the sport channels (yes ESPN did the championship for a bit but they won't cover hundreds of matches commercial free no matter how good it is for the American public. They're one the reasons sports have become the bloated overexosed monster that Dean keeps railing against).
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