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MyOutdoorTV
Company typePrivate
Industryconsumer websites
FoundedFranklin, Tennessee, U.S. (2007)
FounderDavid Hall
Chris Moise
Dave Barton
Headquarters
Key people
David Hall (Co-founder), Chris Moise (Co-founder), Dave Barton (Co-founder), Ryan McNeary (VP Marketing)
ProductsVideos about Hunting, fishing, wildlife and other outdoor activities
Number of employees
20 (2007)
Websitewww.myoutdoortv.com

MyOutdoorTV.com officially announced the launch of it's website in July of 2007[1]. MyOutdoorTV.com was created by three pioneers in outdoor television, the team that developed and launched outdoor programming for TNN(now known as Spike TV. David Hall was co-founder and President of TNN and CMT. Under his direction, TNN grew to be a top-10 cable network in the US and Canada. Chris Moise, CEO of MyOutdoorTV.com, was also a TNN executive with additional experience in radio, print, and online community development. Dave Barton, former Director of Outdoors Programming at TNN, presided over an outdoor block of 17 programs. There are over 2500 hours of outdoor shows available to view that run on many of the mainstream outdoor entertainment venues like Outdoor Channel, Versus and Sportsman Channel. A number of state organizations are also accessible through this site for either video or other general information.

For its video platform, MyOutdoorTV.com is utilizing thePlatform, a subsidiary of Comcast, and their best-in-class broadband video ASP for content providers, broadband media sites, and mobile businesses. thePlatform's customers include ABCNews, College Sports TV, Comcast Interactive, Vongo, Telstra, and Verizon Wireless V CAST. The video delivery network will be managed by Limelight Networks, a high-performance content delivery network for digital media. Limelight is the content delivery network of choice for more than 700 of the world's top media companies, including Akimbo, Amazon Unbox(TM), Belo Interactive, Brightcove, "BuyMusic" @ Buy.com, DreamWorks, LLC, Facebook, FOXNews.com, IFILM, ITV Play, Metacafe, MSNBC.com, MySpace, NC Interactive, Valve Software, Radio Free Virgin, and Xbox Live.