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Exclamation How can we get FIRST on TV?

Battle Bot is on TV because they can afford to pay for the TV contract... So what can FIRST do to get itself on TV?

Well, I don't think FIRST have a whole lot of money to pay any major channel to put a show on... The registration fee of teams don't even pay for all the cost of running competitions. Running 17 regional and 1 championship event is not cheat!

So, I guess the other way to do it is to convince the channels that there's an audience out there dying to watch the FIRST robotics competition. If we can get every high school across the country to have a robotics team, I bet those TV channels will see a demand for robotics shows, and decide it will be profitable for them to start producing something...

NASA have been nice enough to broadcast the competition on their channel, but how many family across the country have NASA TV in their area? If we want FIRST to be on TV, we have to show that there will be a lot of students wanting to watch the shows, and their family wanting to see their kids robot, and their family friends who heard about this wanting to see the show and decide if they want to send their kids to the robotics team in high school... etc.

How else can we get FIRST on TV? I don't think we can hope ESPN will be nice enough to give up showing Football or the x-game, or any other contract that give them millions of profit and donate part of their time for a small group of audience...
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