Outdoor Channel Honored With Eight Additional Telly Awards

Prestigious Recognition for Programming Demonstrates the Network's Extraordinary Originality and Creativity

16 Total Winning Entries for Programming and Promotional Spots

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Aug 17, 2010, 08:00 ET

TEMECULA, Calif., Aug. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Outdoor Channel, America's leader in outdoor TV, is the recipient of two silver (1st place) and six bronze (2nd place) Telly Awards in the Programming category for Documentary, Education, Nature/Wildlife and Information. The 31st Annual Telly Awards is the premier award honoring outstanding local, regional, and cable TV programs and commercials, as well as the finest video and film productions, and work created for the Web. The network recently received eight awards in the Promotional Spot - category for a total of 16 2010 Tellys.

"This latest acknowledgement adds to a growing list of accolades recognizing Outdoor Channel for its excellence in sales, marketing and, now, programming," said Jeff Wayne, Executive Vice President of Programming, Outdoor Channel. "It speaks volumes about the quality of the content we produce, which is resonating with our ever-expanding audience base of loyal, passionate outdoor enthusiasts."

The eight award-winning Outdoor Channel programs include:

2010 Film/Video Winners - Programming Awards
AWARD	CATEGORY	TITLE OF ENTRY
Silver	Nature/Wildlife	Trev Gowdy's Monster Fish – "Bluefin and Thresher"
Silver	Sports	Trev Gowdy's Monster Fish – "Bluefin and Thresher"
Bronze	Education	The Best Defense: Survival! – "Welcome to Disaster City"
Bronze	Information	The Best Defense: Survival! – "Welcome to Disaster City"
Bronze	Information	Savage Wild – "Where Danger Lurks"
Bronze	Nature/Wildlife	Savage Wild – "Where Danger Lurks"
Bronze	Documentary	Legends of Rod & Reel – "Cat Daddy"
Bronze	Nature/Wildlife	Legends of Rod & Reel – "Cat Daddy"

Since 1978, the Telly Awards' mission has been to strengthen the visual arts community by inspiring, promoting, and supporting creativity. The New York City-based organization receives over 13,000 entries from all 50 states and five continents. A panel of judges comprised of previous Silver Telly Award winners evaluated entries based on distinction in creative work. Entries do not compete against each other; instead, they are judged against a high standard of merit. Judges scored the 2010 entries on a performance scale and winning entries are recognized and awarded as Silver or Bronze winners derived from the combined scoring of the judges who evaluate each entry. For more information, please visit: www.tellyawards.com.

About Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc.

Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: OUTD) 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.

SOURCE Outdoor Channel