Outdoor Channel Announces The Winners from their 10th Annual Golden Moose Awards (2010)

January 22, 2010 By by Lindsay Promack, OutdoorChannel.com

LAS VEGAS, Nevada - Outdoor Channel, America's Leader In Outdoor TV, held the 10th Annual Golden Moose Awards on Thursday, January 21, 2010, from The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Honoring the on-air talent, design and graphics personnel, and producers of Outdoor Channel's industry leading programming, the Golden Moose Awards were hosted by celebrated Outdoor Channel personality Michael Waddell, host of Outdoor Channel's popular Bone Collector and Realtree Road Trips series. Approximately 2,000 people from the outdoor industry were in attendance to watch the awards ceremony and to see legendary guitarist and Outdoor Channel personality Ted Nugent perform. Now onto the awards!

Best Blooper-Outtake
Nominees:

Realtree Road Trips
The Jackie Bushman Show
Limbsaver's Addicted to the Outdoors
Inside Outdoors TV
Jim Shockey's Hunting Adventures

Winner:Jim Shockey's Hunting Adventures

Best Commercial
Nominees:

"Brett Favre and Michael Waddell" - Remington
"Pack Rack Tease" - Knight & Hale
"Duck Commanders" - Carry-Lite Decoys
"Gunwerks LR-1000" - The Best of the West
"Vinci" - Benelli

Winner: "Vinci" - Benelli

Best Graphics
Nominees:

Full Frame
Bass Pro Shops Next Generation
She's Beyond The Lodge
Hunt Masters
Bone Collector

Winner: Tie - Bass Pro Shops Next Generation & Hunt Masters

Best Sound Design
Nominees:

The Crush With Lee & Tiffany
Hunt Masters
The Best of the West
Benelli's American Safari
Whitetail Freaks

Winner:Hunt Masters

Best Videography
Nominees:

Bone Collector
Benelli Presents Duck Commander
Hunt Masters
Tracks Across Africa
Destination Polaris
Limbsaver's Addicted to the Outdoors
Stihl Dogs N Logs World Championship
The Crush With Lee & Tiffany

Winner:Benelli Presents Duck Commander

Best Educational/Instructional
Nominees:

Fan Favorite Best Host: Lee and Tiffany Lakosky for The Crush
Fan Favorite Best Fishing: Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World Fishing
Fan Favorite Best Hunting: Benelli Presents Duck Commander
Fan Favorite Best New Series: (Tie for 1st) Benelli Presents Duck Commander & Bone Collector
Fan Favorite Best Overall: Benelli Presents Duck Commander

Also, Outdoor Channel introduced a new award, The Golden Moose Honorary Award, honoring excellent programs that do not completely fit into the traditional hunting and fishing genres. The winners of those awards were:

Shooting: Impossible Shots
Off Road: Destination Polaris
Adventure: Savage Wild

During the awards ceremony, Budweiser, who sponsored the Golden Moose Awards, along with the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation awarded the Budweiser 2010 Conservationist of the Year award. The award went to the late Jim Range, founder and conservationist of the Teddy Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, and was accepted by John Range, Jim's brother.

At the end of the Golden Moose Award ceremony, Ted Nugent - legendary guitarist and host of Outdoor Channel's Spirit of the Wild program brought The Joint down with a rousing, rocking, concert for all of the GMA attendees.

Stay tuned to OutdoorChannel.com for news, products, and videos from SHOT Show 2010.

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