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BBIQ doesn't pay for TV time....

BattleBots nor BattleBots IQ pay to be broadcast on TV; on the contrary that's where they get almost all of their funding. They produce a product (the competition) and Comedy Central--maybe Fox Kids for BBIQ--pays them to film and broadcast it.

The reason BBIQ is on TV so quickly is because BattleBots has a proven television success. The first BattleBots was webcast by ZDtv, the second was pay-per-view, the following seasons were broadcast on tv and the most recent season had it's show length doubled to a full hour.

I'm with Joe and I really hope that this year Dean and Woodie create an exciting tv-worthy show. They will have to compromise some facet of their goals; but these guys are brilliant engineers and very familiar with trade-offs.

Dan
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