Discovery Channel International!

Major News from Northwest Wild!
Issue: # 010
 November 30, 2011
NORTHWEST WILD SIGNS MAJOR DEAL!

Discovery International Logo Dear Steve,

Although it’s been a while since we’ve sent an update on Northwest Wild and SportsLife Media; Jeff and Steve have some major announcements to make.
First and foremost Season One of NORTHWEST WILD has been picked up by DISCOVERY CHANNEL INTERNATIONAL!
This news now slates NORTHWEST WILD as an International television series, featured in more than 100 countries world-wide and broadcast to 38.4 million households. Not too shabby for two dudes from Durango, Colorado!
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NORTHWEST WILD One-Sheet

NORTHWEST WILD MOVEMENT

Since we broadcast our series on Comcast SportsNet Northwest and Comcast SportsNet California last fall, we have partnered up with CABLEready to distribute our series to cable TV companies worldwide.   CABLEready is a leading distributor of independent television programming to a worldwide cable television marketplace.  CABLEready was able to secure a three year distribution deal with Discovery.

With this deal in the Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa region, our goal is to secure separate broadcast agreements with Discovery’s additional worldwide affiliates, including the USA market.

We are also in the process of beginning pre-production on Season Two of NORTHWEST WILD. While we work on Season Two, our first season is scheduled to premiere January 1, 2012 to the countries listed below.

Once we receive the broadcast dates and times, we will communicate them to all our friends who live in the broadcast areas.

Thank you for your continuing support!

- Jeff and Steve Engman
NORTHWEST WILD WILL BE BROADCAST IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTRIES:

Africa Territory consists of the following counties:  Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros Islands, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mascarenes Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Rwanda, San Tome & Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, St. Helena, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

European Territory consists of the following counties: Afghanistan, Albania, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Commonwealth of Independent States (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan) , Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Kingdom of Denmark, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, The Netherlands, Yugoslavia (also known as Serbia and Montenegro).
Middle East Territory consists of the following counties: Aramco, Bahrain, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Malta, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Yemen.
French Territory consists of the following counties/territories:  Metropolitan France, Monaco, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Andorra, Belgium, French Guyana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reunion, St. Pierre and Miquelon, French Polynesia, Mayotte, New Caledonia and Dependencies, Wallis & Futuna.

SPORTSLIFE AND UNCAGE THE SOUL TEAM UP
Starting in July of 2011 Steve Engman and SportsLife Media made the move to team up with John Waller and Uncage the Soul Productions.
For those of you who don’t know John Waller, he is the lead videographer on NORTHWEST WILD and a huge part of the shows success.  Since the teaming up, there have been some amazing projects completed and some huge early success.  The following is a list of some of the latest projects:
John Waller’s documentary film Treeverse was accepted and featured @ the 2011 Banff Mountain Film Festival.

Spearheaded by Uncage the Soul’s Ben Canales a timelapse road-trip that is blowing up online:

Finding Oregon
Finding Oregon

The first project we completed as a group at Uncage the Soul was for Portland Parks and Recreation. This video was their application to a National Award that Portland ended up winning for the best parks and recreation district in the United States!

Portland Parks & Recreation
Portland Parks & Recreation

For more information on what has been going on at Uncage the Soul Productions, stay tuned for a follow-up newsletter from us directly within the next week or so.  For now watch the FINDING OREGON piece and be inspired!
NORTHWEST WILD PARTY
Want to party with The Crew?!  We’re planning a huge party to celebrate the Discovery signing!   More details will be coming soon as plans formulate.  Either way there will be great food, drinks, music, prizes and people to share an EPIC evening with.  Keep an eye out for details.
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Thank for your support and reading this newsletter!  We look forward to entertaining you around with world with Northwest Wild!
Sincerely,

Jeff and Steve Engman
Northwest Wild

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Cable Ready Front Page!

Northwest Wild recently signed with the powerhouse cable distributor CABLEready!  CABLEready is currently in Miami representing Northwest Wild at the NATPE show.  This show features the largest and most highly regarded gathering of Executive Producers, Buyers, Sellers and Content producers in the world.  This is looking to be a great week for Northwest Wild and we are excited for what the future holds!

http://www.cableready.net/

Season 1 Finale

Join us tonight at Rock Creek Country Club for a viewing of the final episode of season 1!  The episode airs at  7 p.m. It’s been a great journey and what better way to celebrate it then hanging with some of the crew and having a great dinner at RCCC.  Those who come will get 20% off their meal!  Hope to see you there!

Episode 6 Program Alert

Greetings all!  Episode 6 of Northwest Wild will be airing tonight @ 9 p.m. on Comcast SportsNet Northwest.  We will be at Laurelwood Public House and Brewpub enjoying a nice cold brew, so feel free to stop by and join us!

If you can’t make it, tune into channel 37 (SD) or channel 737 (HD) to view this epic episode of Northwest Wild.  Steve will be joining up Oregon Peak Adventures to try to climb up Mt. St. Helen’s.  See if he can make it or if the unpredictable Northwest weather will stop their attempt!

Ep. 4 Program Alert!

Hey all,

Episode 4 airs tonight at 9:30 pm, Wednesday Oct. 20 and CSN NW channel 37 (SD Feed) or 737 (HD Feed). This episode features paintball in the Northwest and a tournament put on by Splat Action Paintball in Mollala, OR.  Let us know what you think!!!!

Episode 3 Screening!

Hey Guys,

Just wanted to give you a quick update that we will be hosting a screening of our latest episode tonight (Wednesday October 6) at Laurelwood Public House and Brewpub.  This next episode follows Steve and he tackles the Rogue River in an attempt to become a river guide.  Come stop by and enjoy some great food and cold beer with us tonight!  Hope to see you all there at the following address:

5115 NE Sandy Blvd
Portland, OR 97213

Check out the latest trailer!

We’ve been hard at work editing together all of the video from each episode of Northwest Wild.  There is a new trailer on the About page as well at the Recent Video tab.  Please take a few minutes to enjoy some of the visuals we’ve put together.

Q2 2010 Newsletter Released

Our latest Production Status Newsletter has been released.  It has been a while since we have sent a Newsletter as we have been focused on episode filming.  Please take a few moments to read our Newsletter and get caught up on all the latest happenings.   If you want to be added to our mailing list, please add your email address to the Newsletter & Tune-In Reminder Subscription box.

Past Newsletters:

New Episode Status

We have made a lot of progress over the past couple months filming our latest episodes!  We filmed our Cat Skiing episode with Cascade Powder Cats near Skykomish WA.  It snowed a foot the night before we filmed, so the snow was great, but so was the avalanche danger.   We missed capturing Steve’s head-over heels crash on camera, but the 100-foot yard sale was evidence of a major wipe out.

We filmed our Go-Kart racing episode at the Mountain Highway Raceway near Spanaway, WA.  Steve raced with the Huggler Racing Engines team in an actual event.  Steve found out the hard way that high-speed competitive Go-Kart racing is a very tough sport.  A day of training was not nearly enough to prepare Steve for the actual race.

We filmed our Mount St. Helen’s ascent with Oregon Peak Adventures.  This Ski Mountaineering episode proved to be one of our most difficult adventures.  The weather proved to be more powerful than Steve’s will to reach the summit, but hey that’s the Northwest right?  Other than a couple ruined cameras, the whole crew made it off the mountain safely.

Our next episode is in the planning phase right now as we prepare to raft the Rogue River with Rogue Wilderness Adventures.  Our plan has our crew on the Rogue River the week of June 20th.  In this episode Steve takes on the role of a guide to show a behind the scenes look into a day in the life of a river guide.

Welcome New Featured Businesses

The Northwest Wild Team is pleased to welcome Cascade Powder Cats and Huggler Racing Engines to the list of companies partnering with us to produce an episode of Northwest Wild.  We will be filming our Snow Cat skiing episode this week with Cascade Powder Cats at their location near Skykomish WA.  We are in the planning stages with Huggler Racing Engines to film an episode on go-kart racing in the April/May timeframe.

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