Thread: What does FIRST need to be on TV?
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Re: What does FIRST need to be on TV?
Posted by Al Skierkiewicz at 04/30/2001 2:46 PM EST


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In Reply to: What does FIRST need to be on TV?
Posted by P.J. Baker on 04/29/2001 11:10 PM EST:



All,
I answered this to some extent in a previous post. (See Answers...Answers below) There is obviously some interesting factors in getting TV coverage. We here at Wildstang, even with a long time adult team member who is a broadcast engineer at a big time TV station(me, with WTTW in Chicago (PBS)) took three years and a new show to convince anyone to do coverage of FIRST. We were able to get 17 minutes on a show called "Chicago Tomorrow" and then only of our mini competition (training for the big show) and some CDI. You would think that PBS stations are trying to get corporate sponsorship and would jump at the chance to get a Xerox, Motorola, or Baxter exec looking at their station for an outlet but it doesn't happen that way. Money and investment is always an issue.
FIRST is commited to TV coverage and as I understand it , at least one of the PR people in NH has TV experience.
The tough part is to get audience interest and that we do whenever we get even a minute of news time, like Beatty recently on WGN. We need to get a campaign going for all those interested parties to contact their local stations, PBS in particular, and ask for coverage of the events.

Al

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