August 18, 2009 – Skinny Moose Media launched its weekly newsletter ‘The Skinny’ on Tuesday as a new medium to inform the public in regards to industry news, new products, and special deals. With a handful of informed bloggers, Skinny Moose Media will be turning to their writers for help. “Our writers are always posting about the latest news and the newsletter will not only keep people informed but will assist in promoting our individual bloggers in the Network,” Steve Remington, President of the media company, said.

The newsletter has a strong concentration in the outdoor and recreational industry, especially hunting, fishing, shooting, and conservative politics but the Network is expanding their Internet presence every day. Signing up is simple. Browse to skinnymoose.com and fill in your name and email address in the form.

The Maine Two-Fly Contest and Drift Boat Championships will be held this weekend, September 20 and 21 and Skinny Moose Media will sponsor a boat featuring to local Maine media people. The drift boat, supplied by Sun Valley Sports in Bethel, Maine, will have its oarsman, Nate Wight, a local guide. Fishing will be Steve Minich, sports anchor for the local ABC affiliate News Channel 8. The second angler will be Kevyn Fowler, a videographer from News Channel 8.

We are proud to be able to sponsor a boat for this event. I believe there is still time to enter a team if you haven’t already. I also encourage everyone to take in the event as well. Following the Two-Fly will be the Drift Boat competition which will be easily visible from several locations near town. Awards and a ceremony will also be held in conjunction with the local Harvest Fest.

The event is organized and run as a fund raising event by the Upper Andro Anglers Alliance. The UAAA is made up of a group of individuals and business owners interested in promoting the river as a valuable Maine natural resource and asset to the local economy as well as the state of Maine.

Visit the UAAA website for more information, maps and details of the event.

Tom Remington

My day will be consumed with getting to Kittery and setting up to stream live audio and video of the Maine Moose Lottery drawing to be held at the Kittery Trading Post.

If you are interested in viewing the events, click this link to the Skinny Moose Media broadcasting site where you can view and/or listen to a live broadcast beginning around 3 p.m. today. You’ll also find instructions on how to view pictures as we take them around the venue. All pictures will be taken by our chief photographer, Milt Inman.

Just a quick reminder. Once you get to the video/audio viewing page, if you want to leave there to look at some photos, make sure to open another browser window or tab if you are using tabbed browsing. In the new window, go to the Black Bear Blog. You can then switch back and forth.

Activities get underway in full force by 4 p.m. but many people will be there by 3 p.m., myself included. I have some interviews planned with some interesting people. Once the drawing of names begins at 6 p.m., I will be streaming live video and audio of that only so you can listen for your name to be drawn.

I hope you’ll join us for the event. Comments will be available on this page, the page where we post pictures and the broadcasting page. Depending on how busy I am, I’ll try to answer any comments or questions.

Tom Remington

Yesterday, I attempted my first ever live broadcast of Open Air With Tom Remington. I didn’t think it was going to happen for most of the morning as it seemed I was having one technical failure after another but I finally pulled it off……as it was.

The show is a bit different than other shows in that there are no breaks for commercials or station IDs during the one-hour plus broadcast. I talked with John Stabley, V.P. of Global Operations for Skinny Moose Media, who is attending the Archery Trade Associations trade show in Indianapolis now through Saturday. He gives us an update on the show and how things are going for him.

Other highlights of the show include discussion of some of the continued budget problems at the Michigan Department of Natural Resources and an introduction to Bill Moore’s radio broadcast on a local Upper Peninsula sports radio station.

I also spend some time discussing the economic impact hunting, fishing and recreation has on this country with its millions of participants, yet never any mention of these topics with presidential candidates.

Plus a couple of surprises.

Below is the audio player where you can click and stream audio right now as you read more of the Black Bear Blog or just browsing about the Internet. And for those of you who may not have the time now, visit the Open Air download page and find every show that has been done. You can stream audio of each show now or download it to your media player and listen at your leisure.

[AUDIO:http://www.skinnymoose.com/downloads/openairjan10show.mp3]

Tom Remington

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Yesterday aired the fourth Open Air broadcast and I had some fun. I played a bit of a DJ while spinning a few of Maine humorist Joe Perham’s CDs and telling a tale or two of my own. I had fun and I think you will enjoy the stories as well.

Here are your options. You can stream the audio right here by clicking on the player button below or you can go to this link and select the October 4, 2007 show date to either listen to on your own computer’s media player or you can right-click and save it to play at a later time.

[AUDIO:http://www.skinnymoose.com/downloads/openair10-4.mp3]

Tom Remington

If you missed the show on Skinny Moose Radio today at 3 p.m., you can now listen by streaming the audio right here or going to the Skinny Moose Radio website and downloading it as a podcast or saving it to your computer and listen at your leisure.

My guest today was Kristine Shreve, Director of Marketing for Gun Safety Innovations. We talked extensively about hunting safety and in particular tree stand safety. Gun Safety Innovations has developed a product that will not only allow you to safely raise and lower your weapon from your tree stand and to secure it and prevent it from falling out of your stand.

In addition to tree stand safety, we also discussed outdoor industry networking including bloggers and the impact this is having on hunting and the outdoor sports industry.

Click on the player below to listen to the show or go to the website to download.

[AUDIO:http://www.skinnymoose.com/downloads/openair9-27.mp3]

Tom Remington

I want to take a moment to remind readers that a brand new broadcast of “Open Air With Tom Remington” will air today at 3 p.m. on Skinny Moose Radio.

Today’s show features an in depth interview with Kristine Shreve, Director of Marketing for Gun Safety Innovations, maker of the new tree stand safety device the Gun Slinger. Kristine and I discuss hunter safety with a focus on tree stand safety.

Following that, we spend some time talking about the importance of the outdoor blogoshere and how this is becoming a rapidly growing resource for all outdoor sportsmen. I hope you tune in.

If you can’t listen to the show at 3 p.m., as always we will provide a link to our website so you can listen to the show and all the shows at your leisure. I hope you will join me today at 3.

Tom Remington

Yesterday’s broadcast on Skinny Moose Radio of “Open Air with Tom Remington”, went off pretty much without a hitch. With each successive broadcast, I get a little more comfortable and putting the show together becomes a bit more easy.

My guest yesterday was, once again, my son Steven, as we both work together to work the kinks out of the show but that doesn’t mean we didn’t have anything to talk about. We covered a little bit of baseball, in particular some Red Sox and Yankees coverage, football and the Patriots and Bill Belicheat, along with a host of other topics.

The focus of the show centered around the topic of wolves in the west and the title to a recent article about killing wolves, where the author of that article said that killing wolves violated the public trust. I spend ample time explaining why that is not true and that the fact is the when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, et. al. turned wolves loose in the Yellowstone area, that was a violation of the public trust. I share some history and information of how the U.S. was lied to about the reintroduction.

This topic will be expanded in future shows to show how much of what all hunters and outdoorsmen face today in battling the animal lovers, animal rights groups and anti-hunters is a direct relation to the reintroduction of wolves and continuing debate about their protection over the property rights of U.S. citizens.

I think you will enjoy the show. You can either click here and download or listen to the broadcast with your own media player, or click on the player below and listen now!. Thank you.

[AUDIO:http://www.skinnymoose.com/downloads/openair2.mp3]

Tom Remington

Hey! Don’t forget to tune in to the broadcast of “Open Air with Tom Remington” on Skinny Moose Radio starting at 3 p.m. today. Today my guest was again my son Steve and we talked about a variety of subjects but the main topic of conversation was about wolves in the west and my response to an article I read titled, “Killing Wolves Violates The Public Trust”. The basis of my rebuttal was clarification that the public trust was violated when we the citizens were lied to by our own government and others when wolves were forced upon the people from reintroduction.

I hope you’ll tune in. After the program has aired, we’ll list the show with a link for you to listen to at your leisure.

Tom Remington