Tune in Sunday, April 10, to âWal-Mart FLW Outdoorsâ on FSN for the conclusion of the $900,000 Wal-Mart FLW Tour event on the Ouachita River. Watch as co-hosts Charlie Evans and Keith Lebowitz take viewers through the final weigh-in and award the winning pro angler $100,000.
The one-hour show is the second of a two-part series covering the third event of the 2005 FLW Tour season. On-the-water cameras give viewers an intimate look at the 10 finalists who compete for a career-changing top prize. All anglers start day three at zero weight, with the winning pro determined on day four based on the heaviest two-day weight. Finalists are survivors of two days of qualifying competition that pitted them against a field of the worldâs best bass anglers.
The April 10 show presents a feature with Adam Isaac, a 13-year-old boy from Downsville, La., who was born with complications with his esophagus. Last year during the FLW Tour Atchafalaya Basin tournament, pro anglers Bobby Curtis and David Lauer visited the boy at a nearby hospital. Curtis and Lauer told Isaac that if he recovered, theyâd take him fishing and give him a boat ride when they were in Monroe for the FLW Tour Ouachita River event. When the anglers left the hospital, they figured there was little chance he would survive. Since that time, Isaac has completed an amazing recovery and made the trip to Monroe to take the anglers up on their offer.
FSN also speaks with a group of legendary FLW Tour pros including Rick Clunn, Guido Hibdon, Jimmy Houston, Larry Nixon and Tom Mann Jr. On March 13, FSN aired a feature with a group of young anglers known as the ânext generation.â Hear what the sportâs founding fathers have to say about this young group and how the evolution of the sport, including improved technology and increased money, has made it easier to be a professional angler.
The show also presents profiles with FLW Tour pros Toshinari Namiki and Matt Herren. Namiki, coming off an impressive performance on the Ouachita River, is currently in seventh place in the Wal-Mart FLW Tour standings. Herren, the Trussville, Ala., native also made the cutoff at the FLW Tour event on the Ouachita River and is in third place in the Wal-Mart FLW Tour standings.
FSN is the industry leader in providing the most up-to-date technology in television production. FSN puts viewers in the boats with the pros, shadowing them from sunrise until the final weigh-in using innovative camerawork that gives fishing fans the most intimate viewing experience available.
FSN broadcasts âWal-Mart FLW Outdoorsâ Sundays from 11 a.m. to noon EST. Check local listings for show times and channels in your area.
During each tournament show, âWal-Mart FLW Outdoorsâ hosts Evans and Lebowitz go on location to provide on-the-water coverage. While tournament weigh-ins are broadcast live at Wal-Mart stores throughout the country, âWal-Mart FLW Outdoorsâ is tape-delayed to bring audiences nationwide the best tournament footage possible throughout the season.
FSN reaches more than 82 million homes through its network of 20 regional sports channels. FSN, based in Los Angeles, serves as the cable TV home to 60 of the 81 MLB, NHL and NBA teams based in the United States and produces over 4,500 live events each year. In addition to home team games, FSN telecasts a wide variety of national sports events and programming, including the âBest Damn Sports Show Periodâ and âBeyond the Glory.â For the latest up-to-the-minute sports news and opinions, visit the FOX Sports/FSN Web site at FoxSports.com.
âWal-Mart FLW Outdoorsâ is also televised on the American Forces Network, which reaches over 800,000 service men and women stationed around the world in 177 countries and aboard naval ships.
Named after the legendary founder of Ranger Boats, Forrest L. Wood, FLW Outdoors administers eight national tournament circuits offering more than $30 million in awards through 214 events in 2005. The 27-year-old organization is the purveyor of Americaâs largest and most prestigious fishing tournaments, including the Wal-Mart FLW Tour, Wal-Mart EverStart Series, Wal-Mart Bass Fishing League, Wal-Mart Texas Tournament Trail, Wal-Mart FLW Walleye Tour, Wal-Mart FLW Walleye League, Wal-Mart FLW Kingfish Tour and Wal-Mart FLW Redfish Series.
Wal-Mart and more than 40 of Americaâs largest and most respected companies support FLW Outdoors and its tournament trails. Wal-Mart signed on as title sponsor of the FLW Tour in 1997 and today is the title sponsor of all FLW Outdoors events.By: Dave Washburn, vp comm / FLW Outdoors
