Because anyone with a large wallet from the FRA has either just bought the arena, or is spending it all on a robot? Its also not clear to me how you can own the TV rights without having a channel on which to show it. As for trying to get legal control over the Robot Wars name... oh no, not again.

There has been discussion about filming some FRA events; hopefully that will go somewhere. Failing that, if event organizers can sort out some decent lighting, keen people with modern camcorders could probably patch together something which a cable channel could be talked into showing for a small fee. If were holding the event anyway, every little helps. Maybe by doing it better than Mentorn someone on terrestrial will see what can really be done.

Heres hoping. (And fingers crossed for Battlebots.)

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Fluppet