Outdoor Channel to air coverage of six PRCA rodeos in 2008

By Courtesy PRCA
Posted Friday, March 28, 2008

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – All of the drama from last week’s wrap-up of the Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo in Pocatello, Idaho, presented by U.S. Smokeless Tobacco, and the $1.3 million Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo will be aired nationally during the next three months on the Outdoor Channel, along with four other PRCA rodeos.

The Outdoor Channel, in the second year of an agreement with the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association, will air rodeo coverage twice weekly through June 28. Each hour-long show will debut at 11 p.m. Eastern Time (8 p.m. PST) on Wednesday nights and repeat at 2:30 p.m. ET (11:30 a.m. PST) on Saturdays, although viewers are advised to check their local listings for changes to the schedule.

The Dixie National Rodeo in Jackson, Miss., will air on March 29, followed by a second show from Jackson on April 2 and 5 and then the Arkansas-Louisiana-Mississippi Stampede Days Rodeo in Monroe, La., which will be shown on April 9 and 12.

Coverage of the Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo begins April 16 and 19 in a four-week arc that ends May 10. RodeoHouston will be broadcast in three segments over the last three weeks in May (see complete schedule below) before the series concludes with rodeos in Bandera, Texas, and Cañon City, Colo.

PRCA announcer Andy Stewart and Terry Holland, a PRCA judge and former ProRodeo bull rider, will serve as the voices of the Outdoor Channel's coverage, which is available in 30 million households in the United States in high-definition format.

March 29 – Dixie National Rodeo, Jackson, Miss.

April 2 – Dixie National Rodeo, Jackson, Miss.
April 5 - Repeat

April 9 – Ark.-La.-Miss. Stampede, Monroe, La.
April 12 – Repeat

April 16 – Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo, Pocatello, Idaho I
April 19 – Repeat

April 23 – Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo, Pocatello, Idaho II
April 26 – Repeat

April 30 – Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo, Pocatello, Idaho III
May 3 – Repeat

May 7 – Dodge National Circuit Finals Rodeo, Pocatello, Idaho IV
May 10 – Repeat

May 14 – RodeoHouston I
May 17 – Repeat

May 21 – RodeoHouston II
May 24 – Repeat

May 28 – RodeoHouston III
May 31 – Repeat

June 4 – Cowboy Capital Pro Rodeo, Bandera, Texas I
June 7 – Repeat

June 11 – Cowboy Capital Pro Rodeo, Bandera, Texas II
June 14 – Repeat

June 18 – Royal Gorge Rodeo, Cañon City, Colo. I
June 21 – Repeat

June 25 – Royal Gorge Rodeo, Cañon City, Colo. II
June 28 – Repeat