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sports channel<div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Sportsman Channel</b> is a television <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speciality_channel" title="Speciality channel" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">speciality channel</a> dedicated to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting" title="Hunting" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hunting</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting" title="Shooting" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">shooting</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing" title="Fishing" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">fishing</a> programming. It launched in 2003.</p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As of August 2013, approximately 31,822,000 American households (27.87% of households with television) receive the Sportsman Channel.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsman_Channel#cite_note-1" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[1]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); padding: 7px; font-size: 12px; display: table; zoom: 1; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><h2 style="background-image: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; font-size: 12px; display: inline;">Contents</h2> <span class="toctoggle" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: 11px;"> [<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsman_Channel#" class="internal" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">hide</a>] </span></div><ul style="line-height: 1.5em; list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsman_Channel#History" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">History</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsman_Channel#Programming" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Programming</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsman_Channel#Sportsman_Channel_HD" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Sportsman Channel HD</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsman_Channel#Carriage" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Carriage</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsman_Channel#List_of_former_affiliates" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">List of former affiliates</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsman_Channel#Competitors" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Competitors</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsman_Channel#References" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsman_Channel#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sportsman_Channel&action=edit§ion=1" title="Edit section: History" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sportsman Channel was started in 2003 by C. Michael Cooley and Todd D. Hansen of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskego,Wisconsin" title="Muskego, Wisconsin" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Muskego, Wisconsin</a>. In June 2007, the channel was purchased by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterMedia_Outdoors" title="InterMedia Outdoors" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">InterMedia Outdoors</a> Holdings group, a division of private equity group <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterMedia_Partners" title="InterMedia Partners" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">InterMedia Partners</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsman_Channel#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[2]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In August 2008, InterMedia Outdoors acquired Barrett Productions, one of the preeminent producers of outdoors, adventure and sports television programming, which extended the company's depth and breadth of programming assets targeted toward American sportsmen.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsman_Channel#cite_note-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[3]</a></sup></p><div class="thumb tright" style="clear: right; float: right; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; width: auto; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 13px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><div class="thumbinner" style="min-width: 100px; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249); font-size: 12px; text-align: center; overflow: hidden; padding: 3px !important; width: 177px;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SC_Logo_5_5_09_Final.png" class="image" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><img alt="" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/07/SC_Logo_5_5_09_Final.png/175px-SC_Logo_5_5_09_Final.png" width="175" height="55" class="thumbimage" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/07/SC_Logo_5_5_09_Final.png/263px-SC_Logo_5_5_09_Final.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/07/SC_Logo_5_5_09_Final.png/350px-SC_Logo_5_5_09_Final.png 2x" style="border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></a><div class="thumbcaption" style="border: none; line-height: 1.4em; font-size: 11px; padding: 3px !important; text-align: left;"><div class="magnify" style="margin-left: 3px; border: none !important; background-image: none !important; float: right; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SC_Logo_5_5_09_Final.png" class="internal" title="Enlarge" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none !important; display: block; border: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important;"><img src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.23wmf17/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" width="15" height="11" alt="" style="border: none !important; vertical-align: middle; display: block; background-image: none !important; background-position: initial initial !important; background-repeat: initial initial !important;" /></a></div>Sportsman Channel logo 2009-2011</div></div></div><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In March 2009, Sportsman Channel brought on board InterMedia Outdoors Executive Vice President, Willy Burkhardt, as the new President for the network.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsman_Channel#cite_note-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[4]</a></sup> The appointment brings the company's full range of television content resources under the direction of one person, further integrating IMO and Sportsman Channel.</p><h2 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Programming">Programming</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sportsman_Channel&action=edit§ion=2" title="Edit section: Programming" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The channel has announced it will have up to 100 original shows starting in the fourth quarter of 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsman_Channel#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[5]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As of 2013, programming on Sportsman Channel includes various programming pertaining to hunting (both by archery and through firearms), fishing, and firearms. A one-hour condensed version of <i>Cam & Co.</i>, a news magazine/<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_radio" title="Talk radio" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">talk radio</a> program produced by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rifle_Association" title="National Rifle Association" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">National Rifle Association</a> for <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiriusXM_Patriot" title="SiriusXM Patriot" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">SiriusXM Patriot</a>, airs each weekday evening. Most other shows air in half-hour time slots. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infomercial" title="Infomercial" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Infomercials</a> air only during the overnight <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graveyard_slot" title="Graveyard slot" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">graveyard slots</a>.</p><h2 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Sportsman_Channel_HD">Sportsman Channel HD</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sportsman_Channel&action=edit§ion=3" title="Edit section: Sportsman Channel HD" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On January 19, 2010, the Channel announced it would launch a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1080i" title="1080i" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">1080i</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDTV" title="HDTV" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">high definition</a> feed in the first quarter of 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsman_Channel#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[6]</a></sup> In February 2010, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dish_Network" title="Dish Network" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Dish Network</a> became the first provider to launch the channel in HD.<sup id="cite_ref-dish_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sportsman_Channel#cite_note-dish-7" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; white-space: nowrap; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">[7]</a></sup> The HD feed is now available on various providers including <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cablevision" title="Cablevision" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Cablevision</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comcast" title="Comcast" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Comcast</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Warner_Cable" title="Time Warner Cable" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Time Warner Cable</a>.</p><div>
</div><div><h2 style="background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; margin: 0px 0px 0.6em; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0.17em; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); font-size: 19px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Competitors">Competitors</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select: none; font-size: small; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; padding-right: 0.25em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sportsman_Channel&action=edit§ion=6" title="Edit section: Competitors" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Channels/Networks with content similar to "The Sportsman Channel" include <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pursuit_Channel" title="Pursuit Channel" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Pursuit Channel</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Sports_Network" title="NBC Sports Network" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">NBC Sports Network</a>, (formerly "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versus(TV_channel)" title="Versus (TV channel)" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Versus</a>" channel, and previously "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outdoor_Life_Network" title="Outdoor Life Network" class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Outdoor Life Network</a>" (OLN) network - associated with <i>"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outdoor_Life" title="Outdoor Life" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Outdoor Life</a>"</i>magazine), and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outdoor_Channel" title="Outdoor Channel" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(11, 0, 128); background-image: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Outdoor Channel</a>.</p></div></div>