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Championship Bull Riding bucks over to RFD HD this March
Hold onto your cattle, folks, as Championship Bull Riding is indeed making the move to RFD-TV and RFD HD in a month. Yep, the show reportedly voted as a "#1 fan favorite" on the Outdoor Channel for three consecutive years is moseying on over to another network in March -- the same one that finally landed a carriage agreement with Comcast just last week. Apparently, the move will enable the program's hours to expand, as new episodes will premiere on Wednesday nights with repeats airing just after the debut and on Saturday nights as well. Overall, the CBR will be able to produce 32 new episodes per year on RFD HD (up from 20), and you can wrangle up your pals on March 5th at 10:00PM EST to celebrate the occasion. Yeehaw![Image courtesy of Pictopia]
New device captures rodeo bull physics
As badass as most rodeo events seem -- except for barrel racing, that's just lame -- we're about as clueless when it comes to judging most bull rides as we are at judging figure skating. Luckily, rodeos are about to become privy to new technology advancements, similar in spirit to those yellow first-down lines and the much-maligned glowing hockey puck of yore. Winnercomm, largest independent provider of programming to ESPN, has developed a new gadget that can be glued to the back of a bull and provide a "master's thesis on physics" in data about each ride. This can allow the bumpkin or clueless hipster watching at home to know just how fast and hard the bull is buckin', and we're hoping cowboy hangtime and vertical ascent can be measured as well. We're sure there will be purists who will decry the distillation of rodeo action into simple numbers, but we say bring it on.
