Outdoor Channel Renews Distribution Agreement With the NCTC

Outdoor Channel Renews Distribution Agreement With the NCTC

- Leader in Outdoor TV Inks New Five-Year Deal Designed to Induce Broader Carriage -

TEMECULA, Calif., Oct. 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:OUTD) today announced the renewal of its carriage agreement with the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC). The company's new five-year distribution deal offers continued carriage for the current subscribers. The deal also contains strong incentives to induce broader carriage of Outdoor Channel, America's leader in outdoor TV, to NCTC's more than 1,100 independent cable operator members serving approximately 12 million subscribers nationwide.

"We are pleased to have concluded the renewal and restructuring of our affiliation agreement with one of our biggest and best customers, the NCTC," said Roger L. Werner, president and chief executive officer of Outdoor Channel Holdings. "While we expect the NCTC renewal will initially reduce our subscriber fee revenues, the subscriber fee rates under the agreement increase over time. In addition, we believe the incentives in the agreement will promote greater penetration throughout the membership and lead to an overall expansion in the number of cable subscribers through the organization. Over the past ten years, the NCTC has been an important partner to Outdoor Channel, and we look forward to continuing our successful association for many more years to come."

"Outdoor Channel has a strong track record of delivering programming that appeals to a broad spectrum of our members and their millions of customers," said Jeff Abbas, president and chief executive officer of NCTC. "This extension of our carriage agreement ensures that our members will continue to enjoy one of the cable industry's top networks that focuses on hunting, fishing, and the great outdoors."

NCTC is a not-for-profit programming and hardware purchasing cooperative. Founded in 1984, NCTC serves more than 1100 cable operators throughout the United States. NCTC member companies own and operate cable systems serving 12 million subscribers. NCTC is located in Lenexa, Kansas.

About Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc.

Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc. owns and operates Outdoor Channel, America's leader in outdoor TV. The national network offers programming that captures the excitement of hunting, fishing, Western lifestyle, off-road motorsports, adventure and other outdoor lifestyles. Outdoor Channel can be viewed on multiple platforms including high definition, video-on-demand, as well as on a dynamic new broadband web site (http://www.outdoorchannel.tv/). For more information about the company or Outdoor Channel, please visit http://www.outdoorchannel.com/.

Nielsen Media Research Universe Estimates for Outdoor Channel

Nielsen Media Research is the leading provider of television audience measurement and advertising information services worldwide. Nielsen estimated that Outdoor Channel had approximately 30.9 million cable and satellite subscribers as of October 2007. Please note that this estimate regarding Outdoor Channel's subscriber base is made by Nielsen Media Research and is theirs alone and does not represent opinions, forecasts or predictions of Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc. or its management. Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc. does not by its reference above or distribution imply its endorsement of or concurrence with such information.

Safe Harbor Statement

Statements in this news release that are not historical are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including statements, without limitation, about our expectations, beliefs, intentions, strategies regarding the future long-term value of the company resulting from the company's current actions or strategic initiatives and the future anticipated growth of subscribers, particularly with the members of the NCTC. The company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed in any forward-looking statements. The company intends that such forward-looking statements be subject to the safe-harbor provisions contained in those sections. Such statements involve significant risks and uncertainties and are qualified by important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected by the forward-looking statements. Such factors include but are not limited to: (1) the company's ability to grow the subscriber base of Outdoor Channel; (2) a decrease in operating results from offering launch support fees and other incentives to grow the subscriber base; (3) the triggering of a "most favored nations" clause with service providers from offering launch support fees and other incentives; (4) a decline in the number of viewers from having Outdoor Channel placed in unpopular cable or satellite packages, or increases in subscription fees, established by the service providers; (5) service providers discontinuing or refraining from carrying Outdoor Channel; and other factors which are discussed in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. For these forward-looking statements, the company claims the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

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Source: Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc.

CONTACT: Investors, Angie Yang of PondelWilkinson Inc., +1-310-279-5980,
ayang@pondel.com; or Media, Erica Chouinard of Bob Gold & Associates, Inc.,
+1-310-784-1040, erica@bobgoldpr.com, both for Outdoor Channel Holdings, Inc.

Web site:

http://www.outdoorchannel.com/
http://www.outdoorchannel.tv/

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