What's Up At Outdoor Channel?

[ExurbanKevin]

Oh, and Kevin and I are always available as "zeros" about African hunting to go on the next safari.

Oh hella yeah!

[ExurbanKevin]

As I have a tradition of giving Ruger good ideas for their marketing, how about this:

Ruger and MidwayUSA present "The Tenderfeet", sponsored by Hornady Ammunition¹. 13 week, half hour show. 6 contestants who are familiar with guns but have never hunted² compete each week in a series of challenges designed to hone their hunting skills. Winner goes to Derkaderkastan on the "hunt of a lifetime" with a big Outdoor Channel celeb³, and a minor Outdoor Channel celeb hosts the show. Shows alternate for twelve weeks between showing the contestants how to hunt and then the challenges themselves, with the series finale being the hunt itself.

Ok Michael, hire me to produce it, and let's get Ken Jorgeson and Larry Potterfield on the phone!

1. Suggested sponsors, but you get the idea.
2. Dunno how to check this. Maybe searching their state's fish and game records? If not that, a signed affidavit renouncing any prizes if you cheat.
3. Big as in the host of a primetime show. Minor celeb would be the sidekick on an existing show.

[Pathfinder]

3. Big as in the host of a primetime show. Minor celeb would be the sidekick on an existing show.

Like Scouten's kid?            

[BAC]

I'm also very disappointed with the Outdoor Channel channel on the Roku.  We got rid of cable a couple months ago to save money (lots of money), and have been using a Roku and Hulu + so as not to turn our 60" TV into a big dust-collecting paperweight.

I was happy to find an OC channel available for the Roku.  It is $4.99/month with a 7 day free trial.  Unfortunately the content on the channel is more than a little old.  The newest Gun Stories episodes are from season 2, and there are episodes of Shooting Gallery on there from 7 years ago.  Not all the episodes, either.  Just a couple seasons from long ago.

Well, I signed up for the free trial, watched a couple old SG episodes, and cancelled my subsription.  Sad that you have to pay that much for old content.  Luckily I have about 1000 videos from Hickok45 to go through on Youtube.   

The cable companies are really trying to put a squeeze on Roku owners and Hulu subscribers.  They must be scared.

[ExurbanKevin]

Honestly, I don't know why Outdoor Channel isn't snapping up Hickok, FPS Russia, MAC, et al to be hosts on their shows.

Heck, Freddie Wong's channel is in the top ten on youtube. It's mostly about video gaming, but and he has guns a-blazin' in every third video or so.

There is a vibrant and thriving online video gun community, and it's being ignored by the cable shows.

To their credit, Marshall and Michael understand this, which is why blogging schmucks like me get onto OC shows , but they are the exception, not the rule.

[Sponsor]

[alfsauve]

Heck, considering the variety of shows some of the other channels run, OC could opt for some fiction/drama.  If it's remotely about the outdoors or cowboys, then it would be appropriate.  I hear Longmire is available.