Like golf and hockey coverage, it's the little things that count in HD (like a tiny white ball and a black puck). For fishing, it's colorful hooks and flies and other accoutrements of the water-borne sport. The World Fishing Network, which it says is North America's only 24-hour "fishing lifestyle" network, began producing and airing some of its content in HD many months ago, but now says it plans to go totally HD in May. That will be a year after the debut of WFN's HD channel, which now includes four original HD series in HD.
Mark Rubenstein, president of WFN, said "as consumer demand for HD continues to grow…we're excited to bring the beauty of fishing home to viewers with the stunning picture quality that WFN HD delivers, so that HDTV owners can enjoy the world's most beautiful fishing locales in all of their grandeur."
WFN HD's older sister channel, WFN, continues to air a different schedule of fishing fare in SD—where it continues to reach a far larger audience than its HD counterpart for now, since securing HD channel assignments on cable and DBS is a slow and tedious process.
WFN HD's original programming includes "Charlie Moore TV," "Hookin' Up with Mariko Izumi," "Getting School'd with JP DeRose" and" WFN's Reel Road Trip."
