Outdoor Channel Broadens Distribution In Seattle And Tacoma Through Comcast Agreement
Outdoor Channel HD Now Available.
Temecula, Calif. –-(AmmoLand.com)- Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: OUTD), America’s leader in Outdoor TV, today announced that Outdoor Channel has broadened its distribution through placement on the Digital Preferred tier on Comcast Digital Cable systems in the Seattle market. This is in addition to its existing position on the Sports and Entertainment tier. Local residents can now more easily access a robust spectrum of Outdoor Channel’s popular hunting, fishing, shooting and adventure programming.
Outdoor Channel also launched its high definition channel, Outdoor Channel HD, in Seattle and Tacoma.
“We are excited to deepen our affiliation with Comcast in Seattle and Tacoma,” said Tom Hornish, COO at Outdoor Channel. “These are key markets, and this is an important step in our distribution progress.”
“The mountains and waters throughout this region practically define the great outdoors, and many cable subscribers here are passionate outdoor enthusiasts who can now easily enjoy our high quality, category-leading hunting, fishing, shooting and other outdoor related programming,” said Randy Brown, Senior Vice President, Affiliate Sales & Marketing at Outdoor Channel. “They can also now view our popular programming and personalities through an enhanced HD picture resolution, which truly drives home the visual clarity of the great outdoors.”
“Our customers have a strong affinity for the outdoors, and we are pleased to make this top-ranked outdoor cable network more widely available,” said Tom Pierce, VP of Sales & Marketing for Comcast in Washington state. “Our customers are also now enjoying the clear, crisp broadcast of Outdoor Channel HD.”
Outdoor Channel takes viewers across the country and around the world, sharing unmatched thrills and experiences through the eyes of esteemed outdoor personalities. The network estimates the tier launch will result in an incremental 400,000 paying subscribers, but cannot predict the impact, if any, such additional paying subscribers may have on Outdoor Channel’s Nielsen Universe Estimate.
About Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc.
Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc. owns and operates Outdoor Channel, America’s leader in outdoor TV, and Winnercomm Inc., an Emmy Award winning production and interactive company. Outdoor Channel offers programming that captures the excitement of hunting, fishing, shooting, off-road motorsports, adventure and the Western lifestyle and can be viewed on multiple platforms including high definition, video-on-demand, as well as on a dynamic broadband website. Winnercomm Inc. is one of America’s largest and highest quality producers of live sporting events and sports series for cable and broadcast television. Winnercomm also owns and operates the patented Skycam and CableCam aerial camera systems which provide dramatic overhead camera angles for major sports events, including college and NFL football. For more information please visit www.outdoorchannel.com.
Nielsen Media Research Universe Estimates for Outdoor Channel
Nielsen Media Research is the leading provider of television audience measurement and advertising information services worldwide. Nielsen estimated that Outdoor Channel had approximately 31.4 million cable and satellite subscribers for October 2009. Please note that this estimate regarding Outdoor Channel’s subscriber base is made by Nielsen Media Research and is theirs alone and does not represent opinions, forecasts or predictions of Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc. or its management. Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc. does not by its reference above or distribution imply its endorsement of or concurrence with such information.
About Comcast Corporation
Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA, CMCSK) (www.comcast.com) is the nation’s leading provider of entertainment, information and communications products and services. With 24.6 million cable customers, 14.4 million high-speed Internet customers, and 5.6 million Comcast Digital Voice customers, Comcast is principally involved in the development, management and operation of broadband cable systems and in the delivery of programming content.
Comcast’s content networks and investments include E! Entertainment Television, Style Network, The Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, PBS KIDS Sprout, TV One, ten Comcast SportsNets networks and Comcast Interactive Media, which develops and operates Comcast’s Internet businesses, including Comcast.net (www.comcast.net). Comcast also has a majority ownership in Comcast-Spectacor, whose major holdings include the Philadelphia Flyers NHL hockey team, the Philadelphia 76ers NBA basketball team and two large multipurpose arenas in Philadelphia.