Pursuit Channel Announces Dozens of New Series for 2013, Internet Protocol TV
OutdoorHub 12.13.12
Now at the conclusion of the most remarkable growth year in Pursuit Channel history, America’s largest, audited outdoors network officially announces the market’s only hunt/fish/shoot Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) platform — live, continuous, online transmission of the network’s broadcast at www.pursuit channel.com— as well as a new network interstitial campaign beginning in January, all to complement record expansion of enthusiast content.
Great hunting and fishing television content is the top priority for Pursuit Channel. And there are hundreds of new and exciting episodes from blue-ribbon producers in the queue for 2013; an impressive new-series list that, together with prominent television brands expanding to 52-week schedules, includes: Anglin’ Edge with legendary fisherman Al Lindner and company, Turkey Man – The Series with Eddie Salter, Hobie Outdoors, Uncut Angling, Hunting with HECS, Timmy Horton Outdoors, Bob Redfern Outdoor Magazine, Addicted to the Bone, World Wide Adventures, Gulf South Outdoors, World Series of Bass, Woodhaven Game Calls, Sweet Addiction, Big Johnson Outfitters, Simply Outdoors, In the Woods with Ron and Jerry, Trigger Time, Americana Outdoors, Birding Adventures, Uncharted Waters with Bobby Wilson, TomBob Outdoors, Team Cross Canyon Arm’s Hunting North America & Beyond with Colorado Buck and Sportsmen of North America.
At press time eight new series were slated to join with the network’s bedrock of nearly three dozen branded favorites –including the likes of Scent Blocker & Drury’s Natural Born Killers, The Honey Brake Experience, Avian-X, Struttin’ Bucks and Mossy Oak’s Inside the Obsession – for runs from July through December 2013. These new shows include: Pulse Factor, The Bear Whisper, Flyway Highway, Bucket List, North American Safari, Spartan Outdoors and Overtime Outdoors.
“This near overtop of traditional outdoors television on Pursuit Channel speaks to the vibrancy of an expanding category, the importance of affordable, impactful time-buy alternatives and the desires of millions of viewers,” said Rusty Faulk, CEO. “Two-thousand thirteen starts a next phase, a period of improved and optimized content where the network’s identity crystallizes through world-class investments and executions designed to complement the very best pricing to reach the outdoors demographic,” he said. “We are accepting all content in full high definition, which improves quality now and gives us a head-start on the 2013 announcement of a Pursuit HD launch. Today, urbanized cable-TV subscribers can participate in the evolution of Pursuit Channel online, through their desktops and shortly across all wireless platforms, all part and parcel to a spectacular future for Pursuit.”