Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: MikeBjerum on December 14, 2011, 11:27:28 AM
Title: What is the Outdoor Channel Up To?
Post by: MikeBjerum on December 14, 2011, 11:27:28 AM
My appointments for today merged into yesterday and tomorrow, so I'm working on my list of gotta get dones at the desk. I remembered it is Wednesday, and that means Wednesday night at the range. A quick check of the schedule so that I can have guns blasting in the background revealed more hunting shows than every. I enjoy hunting and fishing, but I also want gun and shooting shows!
What is Outdoor Channel doing to their programming? Shooting Gallery is only on once, The Best Defense - Survival is only on once. The advantage of these channels we pay for is that they run their shows several times so you get a chance to catch and enjoy them. However, it appears that Mr. Bane pissed in someone's Cheerios up at the OC front office :-\
Title: Re: What is the Outdoor Channel Up To?
Post by: Marshal Halloway on December 14, 2011, 11:41:14 AM
There is no change in the programming.
As of now, the Wednesday night block is as follows:
Wednesdays Eastern time: 4:00 PM: Shooting USA 5:00 PM: Field & Stream Total Outdoorsman Challenge 5:30 PM: Dallas Safari Club's Tracks Across Africa 6:00 PM: Hunter's Specialties Outdoors 6:30 PM: American Rifleman Television 7:00 PM: MidwayUSA’s The Best Defense: Survival! 7:30 PM: MidwayUSA’s Gun Stories 8:00 PM: Field & Stream’s The Gun Nuts Presented by Smith & Wesson 8:30 PM: Shooting USA 9:30 PM: Shooting USA's Impossible Shots 10:00 PM: American Rifleman Television 10:30 PM: MidwayUSA’s Gun Stories 11:00 PM: Shooting Gallery presented by Crimson Trace 11:30 PM: Field & Stream’s The Gun Nuts Presented by Smith & Wesson 12:00 AM: Shooting USA 1:00 AM: MidwayUSA’s The Best Defense: Survival! 1:30 AM: MidwayUSA’s Gun Stories
When we go into the new quarter last week of December, there will be some adjustments on prime time scheduling with new episodes of Shooting Gallery (goes to an hour) and Best Defense.
MH
Title: Re: What is the Outdoor Channel Up To?
Post by: MikeBjerum on December 14, 2011, 01:15:45 PM
Last time I was at home on a Wednesday I had Shooting Gallery, Best Defense, and American Rifleman rather than so much hunting during the afternoon hours. Granted this is an exception in my day to be home on a Wednesday, but I remembered there being much more shooting in the past.
Now go back and get your sexitary's office finished ;)
Title: Re: What is the Outdoor Channel Up To?
Post by: Marshal Halloway on December 14, 2011, 11:33:25 PM
Here is the unofficial lineup from December 28:
ON TARGET TIME BLOCK 4-7PM 4:00 Shooting Gallery 5:00 Best of Jim Zumbo 5:30 American Rifleman 6:00 Hunter's Specialities Outdoors 6:30 Impossible Shots
AT THE RANGE TIME BLOCK 7:00 Border Battles 7:30 The Best Defense 8:00 Shooting USA 9:00 Shooting Gallery 10:30 American Rifleman 11:00 Border Battles 11:30 Impossible Shots 12:00 Best Defense 12:30 Shooting USA 1hr 1:30 American Rifleman 2:00 Shooting Gallery (1hr)
Title: Re: What is the Outdoor Channel Up To?
Post by: Pathfinder on December 15, 2011, 06:51:39 AM
Marshal -
To the OP, please take a look at the list below with my notes. I used to watch Wednesday night for a solid 3 hours or more, now . . .
In short, Outdoor Channel has mucked up the schedule and perhaps even the shows themselves that I no longer make a point to put my channel on it and instead I watch another channel while DVRing the shows I want. Maybe Outdoor Channel does really think that they cannot afford to dedicate one block of time one freakin' evening a week to shooting SPORTS or SD, and instead insist on being a hunting channel with a little of the shooting sports thrown in for good measure.
MB has riffed on this quite a bit. We are seeing huge gun sales since bho got elected, and especially right now "for the Holidays". And they ain't Savages and Remington 700's flying out the doors either.
Outdoor needs to get its collective head out of its collective posterior, or their only viewers will be the Fudds who only buy a couple cases of shotgun shells each year. And maybe a new choke. Not exactly a high-demand demographic for advertisers.
ON TARGET TIME BLOCK 4-7PM 4:00 Shooting Gallery - DVR 5:00 Best of Jim Zumbo - don't watch - Zumbo? Really? ? ? 5:30 American Rifleman - don't watch 6:00 Hunter's Specialities Outdoors - don't watch 6:30 Impossible Shots - don't watch - got repetitious the second episode, haven't been back much since then
AT THE RANGE TIME BLOCK 7:00 Border Battles - don't watch 7:30 The Best Defense - DVR 8:00 Shooting USA - don't watch - got lame a long time ago, esp. when Jr. joined the show 9:00 Shooting Gallery - DVR 10:30 American Rifleman - don't watch - a little Keefe goes a long looooong way 11:00 Border Battles - don't watch 11:30 Impossible Shots - don't watch 12:00 Best Defense - DVR 12:30 Shooting USA 1hr - don't watch 1:30 American Rifleman - don't watch 2:00 Shooting Gallery (1hr) - DVR
Title: Re: What is the Outdoor Channel Up To?
Post by: Magoo541 on December 15, 2011, 09:44:03 AM
We, my wife actually, cut our cable plan back to save a few bucks a year ago,and it didn't affect any of her shows and I haven't been able to watch any of it :'(
I figure with going back to school and a new position it would hurt to cut back on my TV time, but I just found other stuff to watch. Guess it's time to have that arguement, since I'm getting a raise the first of the year ;D