Outside Television
Outside Television (formerly RSN Television) is a Direct-broadcast satellite network operated by Mariah Media which publishes Outside Magazine that creates and distributes outdoor lifestyle and resort-based sports programs to a network of stations across the United States like TV Aspen in Aspen, Colorado.
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History [edit]
The network was founded in partnership by Mariah Media Inc, publisher of Outside magazine, and Resort Sports Network (RSN) to bring Outside's award-winning coverage to life. The joint venture united two prominent leaders with large bases of both active and affluent consumers in the active-lifestyle categories.
Outside Television was the result of a complete rebranding of the existing Resort Sports Network, the national television network that specialized in creating and distributing outdoor-lifestyle content to premier vacation destinations throughout the country.
As of June 2010 Outside Television was in 110 resort markets representing 61 million potential viewers.[1]
Outside Television has a corporate office in Westport, CT and a main office in Portland, ME. Its sales office is in the Graybar Building at 420 Lexington in New York City.[2]
Outside Television was founded by publisher Lawrence Burke and founding executive producer and executive vice president Les Guthman in 1994. Over the next ten years, it produced the long-running Outside Television Presents TV series, whose production Farther Than the Eye Can See,[3] the first high-definition film to summit Mt. Everest, by director and cameraman Michael Brown, earned two Emmy Nominations in 2004,[4] the Emmys for Best Sports Documentary and Best Sports Cinematography. Into the Tsangpo Gorge,[5] by director and expedition leader Scott Lindgren, achieved the epic first whitewater descent of the “Everest of rivers," through the 18,000-ft.-deep Tsangpo Gorge (Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon) in Tibet and was recognized by the Explorers Club as one of the most accomplished expeditions of modern times.[6] Into the Tsangpo Gorge aired on NBC Sports in May 2002 and was Outside Magazine's cover story in July 2002.[7] In addition to airing on television, Outside Television's documentaries produced between 1995 and 2004 appeared in 177 international film festivals and won 29 film festival awards.
Programming [edit]
- Outside Today (co-hosted by David LaHuta, Julia Dimon and Ethan Zohn)
- Dispatches (formerly known as The Buzz)
- Outside Film Festival: Mountainfilm in Telluride (co-hosted by David LaHuta and Lynsey Dyer)
- Epic Conditions (originally produced by Weather Channel)
- Focused
- Around the World for Free
- Nomads
- Ride Guide
- North Face Expeditions
- Untracked
- Primal Quest
- Perfect Days
- Outside Television Presents
References [edit]
- ^ http://rsn.com/node/7203
- ^ http://www.outsidetelevision.com/contact-us
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471697/
- ^ "25th Annual Sports Emmy Awards Nominations - PART B". Emmyonline.org. Retrieved 2010-11-25.
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0471760/
- ^ [http://www.explorers.org/index.php/about/history/the_lowell_thomas_award
- ^ http://outsideonline.com/tsangpo/liquid_thunder_1.html
