The Ski Channel will be launched on December 25th and will reach 15 Million households in US. The channel also reached a carriage deal with DirecTV and Verizon Communications. The Ski Channel will broadcast mountain activities such as hiking, biking, backpacking, climbing, skiing, snowboarding, etc., and also with many off-slope activities. The channels also plans to bring magazine shows, movies, events, news and weather.
The network will be available on DIRECTV on Demand service for DirecTV subscribers and Verizon FiOS TV’s video-on-demand (VOD) service will serve the channel to its subscribers.
The Ski Channel has rights to broadcast over 250 hours of content and also to acquire more original programming and has a deal with Mountain Sports Media to broadcast some of the most famous films in skiing, from the Warren Miller Entertainment library, as well as their television series Thrills and Spills.
Steve Bellamy, Chairman and CEO of The Ski Channel said “It has been an incredible month for us; we closed a significant capital raise. If we close all the ad deals on the table – we will hit our first year’s number before we launch, we have added a ton of incredible programming, we will be announcing more distribution shortly and we are launching on Christmas Day! The Farmers Almanac is predicting the next decade to have great snow and resorts are already opening early across the country this season.”
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