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15/11/2011

Outdoor Sport Channel Adds AccuWeather Reports

An international outdoor sports television company, Outdoor Sport Channel Ltd, has announced a comprehensive deal with AccuWeather, the world's weather authority, and their Barcelona-based sales management company Eurontoit to bring AccuWeather’' worldwide, studio-presented, weather reports and programming to the 24/7 linear broadcast channel, Outdoor Sport Channel-Globalwide.
"With AccuWeather, we get tremendous flexibility to leverage up-to-date worldwide weather, snow skiing and other related outdoor sport activity reports," said Henk van Meer, founder & CEO of Outdoor Sport Channel Ltd.
"AccuWeather makes it easy for us to provide all relevant outdoor weather content across our worldwide network. In order to further successfully offer and launch our brand to worldwide affiliate operators, we teamed up with AccuWeather for its excellent television market reputation. AccuWeather will bring an excellent and unique value to our programming, as we've once again found a fantastic content partner for the Outdoor Sport Channel."
Dr. Joel N. Myers, Founder and President of AccuWeather said: "AccuWeather is pleased to deliver our international weather reports to the Outdoor Sports Channel and its viewers."
"There is no greater factor in planning outdoor sports activities, either as a spectator or competitor, than the current weather conditions.
"That makes the partnership between AccuWeather and Outdoor Sport Channel a perfect fit. We look forward to delivering our nearly 50 years of experience, global expertise and thorough reporting to more viewers worldwide."
Outdoor Sport Channel is said to be a family-friendly sports channel that features a range of quality outdoor sports programming designed to inform and entertain sportsmen across the world.
Traditional outdoor activities are broadcast alongside daily sport news programming about world cup skiing, car racing, paragliding, mountain climbing, horse riding, hot air ballooning, motor sports, cycling, wake board sports, beach volleyball cup, marathons, air flight days, drag racing, kart racing, surfing competitions, golf and all football leagues.
All programming is a combination of Outdoor Sport Channel's own content production team and productions from many well-known independent sports producers across the world including: SKY, Red Bull, Swatch, O'Neil, Adidas, Dunlop, Stimorol, Columbia, Nissan, WMRT, Cap Sports Group, Quattro Media, Wright productions, and Raceline Nascar Magazine among many others.
AccuWeather international weather reports will be available throughout the day, integrated into the sports news programming, beginning this month via all Outdoor Sport Channel platforms.
(BMcC/GK)
VMI.TV Ltd

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