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People will watch mars tv because its new, its not reality tv at all, its so much different, its FUTURE TV! The exclusive TV rights would surely help towards the cost of a mission to mars but will not be the answer. The cost of TV rights will be enormous since you have to think about what the tv company actually gets for their money. They get 6 months of fly on the wall footage, mars approach, aerobraking, landing, the first footstep on mars, the first sunrise on mars, the first sunset, then however many days/weeks/months of footage until the public gets bored. Just thinking about watching any of the above that sends a shiver down my spine (and will glady pay $$ for the pleasure

But what about all the other commercial possibilities? If you have a weekly TV program for 6 months just to get there, there are surely adverising revenues to be had from product placement. Slap a coca cola logo on the spaceship if you have to, anything to get the $$ so we can go to mars!!!! and advertising space on the channel (I assume it would be more efficient to have a separate mars channel for this!) In the end when it comes to landing day the whole world will be watching, and if its exclusive on mars tv the project gets a healthy pay check.

I also think the commercal activities should extended further, if the mission can establish a good turnaround of missions then a futures market could be setup to trade for future land, property and minerals. The thing is the only way our socety is going to get to mars is to set up a martian economy to pay for it, TV will be a part of that economy, so will the land and the minerals. "The case for mars" has already been established, we just need to get the business plan on track.

MX