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Re: Regionals on TV?
I've been thinking about regionals on TV for a couple of days and I think I've come up with a model for TV stations to grab a hold of. Being that I'm a telecommunications student at Youngstown State University, I know a little about the subject and I know what we would have to do to get FIRST on TV Live. Problem is, you're probably not going to get all of what you want.
FIRST regionals are too long and not interesting enough to devote full coverage. I say that because this is 6 about hours of programming each day of competition. A producer would have to come up with content for between matches, and the station would have to devote a whole production crew for these two days to get the job done. That is why most stations wouldn't show the entire competition. I do believe that we could get partial coverage of a regional. I'm thinking that a production crew could shoot the full event, then edit together the best matches for a production on Saturday. The broadcast would start around 10 or 11 on Saturday morning and then go live once eliminations start. I think that many more stations would grab a hold of that idea. Discovery Canada did a great job with GTR last year and I think it was great that they did the entire weekend. I would love to see more stations do that, but perhaps we should start them off with a simple alternative to get them interested. Unfortunately, I'm a little to late for this to happen this year, but I'm hoping to get Fox Sports Ohio or SportsTime Ohio to shoot buckeye next year. Webcasts are a really great thing and I think that more teams could take over this responsibility in the future. CIA team 291 did in Pittsburgh and it turned out great from what I know. It wasn't cheap, but with a few sponsors on a wrapper page, this is definitely possible. |
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The Wisconsin Regional was covered locally by Channels 6 and 12 that I know of. Apparently, I was in both of the short stories they did
(One was the Friday morning driver meeting and one was our robot in action!). It certainly is a start, and I bet it was 1714's letter to the mayor that helped get us up there. |
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Don't know if you have been to any Michigan regionals but Dave is a pretty "lively" EMCee
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But some sponsors might take on to getting air time. GM and Ford probably would like to get their name out there more (though they don't need it.) |
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I have been talking with Discovery Channel for the GTR. I believe that they may try and do a high def feed. I have gotten them a second DSL so we shall see.
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Here is my solution
don't just do one regional, FIRST im pretty sure RECORDS these regionals and has private channels to veiw these stations through a secure network. It just doesn't seem like FIRST would just do the same video setup/layout for every regional and championship divisions. so here is what i suggest. do something like NASA TV does for Championships. Switch from Division to Division (or Regional to Regional) to broadcast all the action. for the most intriging matches/important last year at championships, i was up friday night looking at the scedule for all 4 divisions, i had the media badge for my team and i went through each divisions saturday scedule and i picked matches taht were going to be worth wathing. then i picked which alliance selection would be the most intresting, same witht he playoffs once i knew all the alliances, and i stayed there... it was the best idea i had come up with that whole week regaurding matches... my team was no where near getting picked... i think this would be the BEST idea for Friday and Saturday.... but a better idea would be by putting on limited airtime and broadcasting the local regionals across a national spectrum from 1pm-4:30pm on saturday showing important highlights for each team in the elimination matches. regional sponcers a buy ad spaces across teh regional covrage.... just my $0.02 |
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The Only way the FLR had Time Warner braodcast it the last year for the first time was due to the efforts of a few mentors from 1450 and RIT to match funding of the broadcast so $$$ is still a factor. I'm not sure what the deal was this year but it's broadcast ont he educational Channel 4 and not necessarily a main broadcast channel. Either way it's still better than nothing and gets alot of people to see it if they could not make it, especially this year through the snow.
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As for opinions: NASA does enough as far as TV coverage.
For getting new folks interested, the Championship brodacast is sufficient. Once that's being done, I think additional resources being used for x additional teams gets FIRST and NASA more bang for the buck Having the Kickoff sent via NASA TV is actually far more valuable, since the alteratives aren't as good or easy, and it's a critical need to have "all" teams view the Kickoff live. Should NASA devote even more resources to FIRST? Perhaps, but we all need to remember that NASA depends on the whims of Congress and has a hard time with some long-term planning because of the vagaries of funding. If everyone involved in FIRST in the USA was to write to their congressperson and express their desire to see greater funding for NASA, believe me FIRST would also benefit. Quote:
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up here in Ontario we have Rogers cable 10 community cable.....and I am not sure what you have down there but I wonder why community cable isn't covering FIRST live all the time here, it sure would be alot more entertaining and interesting than what they normally have on TV.
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I think everyone needs to realize that NASA isn't a television production company. They are around to explore the outer reaches of space. We as the FIRST community need to come up with some creative way to get the television media involved. We've already had some great successes in this realm. Tech TV, Discovery, many national news sources. We just need to keep up with what FIRST has already done and get local sources involved now. Do something with your teams that will catch their attention. FIRST can only do so much. That's why Dean gave us this assignment.
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Persistence is key. Be the squeaky door, but don't ruin your changes by becoming a pain. It's a fine line. Create value for your story. Show the media why they should cover your story. Tell them your FIRST stories. These are compelling and people need to know what FIRST is doing to changes the lives of many students. They also need to know how these kids are going to change the future. IN our town, they need to know how we can turn our economies around. Let's come up with some constructive answers to the question of how to get the media involved. No more blaming FIRST or NASA. |
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I agree frank.
Something we did different at team rush is that each student on the team, 33 students, wrote an individual personalized letter to 3 of our metro-detroit broadcasting stations. In this letter they explained what FIRST meant to them and how it would mean soooooooo much for them to come and make a news story about the great lakes regional. Hopefully what we are trying to do is the foundation for getting each regional broadcasted on ALL the news and sports channels. |
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You could maybe get news coverage with interestingly-worded press releases or pre-written articles.
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Note: I'm joking, don't actually submit this to anybody ever. We don't need uninformed people raging against FIRST. |
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