Tuff TV
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| Type | digital broadcast television network |
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| Branding | TUFF TV |
| Country | United States |
| Availability | Nationwide via OTA digital television (covering 33%) |
| Slogan | Are You Tuff Enuff? |
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Broadcast area
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United States |
| Owner | TUFF TV Network, LLC (Seals Entertainment Company, LLC) |
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Key people
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Lou Seals John Bonner Paul Miller |
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Launch date
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June 30, 2009 |
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Official website
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www |
Tuff TV is an American digital broadcast television network targeted at men owned by the Tuff TV Network, LLC. Tuff TV launched on June 30, 2009. The network was founded by E. Lamar "Lou" Seals, III, chairman and chief executive officer of Seals Entertainment Company, LLC, parent company of Tuff TV Network. The Network Uses 480i.
Tuff TV carries a mixture of sports (combat, motor and some team sport), lifestyle (outdoors, cooking), automotive, dramas, movies and talk show programming geared mainly at a young male audience. The network carries 3 hours of weekly e/i children’s programming. Stations affiliating with Tuff get five advertising minutes per hour and arrange cable carriage.
Tuff TV was launched in 2009 as a joint venture between Luken Communications and TUFF TV Media Group LLC, owned by Tuff TV President Lou Seals. By July 2011, the network's main affiliates were Morris Family Broadcasting and NJR TV station groups. In Mid-July 2014, Tuff TV Network company started crowdfunding equity on SparkMarket.com attempt to raise $50,000, but was limited to those living in the state of Georgia.
Tuff agreed to carry some games from the first season of the Fall Experimental Football League in October and November 2014. Tuff relocated their offices to the GPB Media Building in Atlanta on June 8, 2016. Broadcasting On Friday, July 15, 2016, Tuff took over its distribution feed from Luken Communications earlier than planned.
The following TV stations is carried TUFF TV over digital terrestrial television:
Seals Entertainment Company, LLC, also Sealsco, is a TV media company which got its start in sports news production. The company also has a set of digital TV networks, Tuff TV, Go Channel, MotoWorld Network and Rocky TV.
Seals Entertainment started in October 1984 with the production of MotoWorld motorcycle sports TV news magazine, which ran for 20 years on multiple channels including ESPN, TNN/Spike TV and USA. That branded was expanded with a spinoff show, MotoWorld 2 Rev It Up!, on ESPN2 for racing, both motorcycles and autos.
MotoWorld was then next used for an online live streaming service started in 1999 which featured motorcycle races. Tuff TV was launched in 2009 as a joint venture between Luken Communications and TUFF TV Media Group LLC, owned by Tuff TV President Lou Seals. On January 11, 2017, Seals Entertainment announced MotoWorld Network would be launched as a digital TV network. Sealsco followed that announcement up with additional announcements of a slate of new digital networks, Go Channel, Rocky TV and Flicks TV, over the course of a week.
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