Kroenke Sports & Entertainment acquires InterMedia Outdoors

Kroenke Sports & Entertainment (KSE), a company that owns and operates live sports events, has completed the acquisition of InterMedia Outdoors Holdings, a US media group and channel operator dedicated to outdoor sports.

The deal includes InterMedia Outdoors assets such as US national cable-television broadcaster Sportsman Channel, 17 websites, 15 magazines and various television production operations.

KSE will continue to operate the Sportsman Channel as a separate channel.

KSE already owns and operates 50 per cent of the World Fishing Network, the only television channel in North America dedicated to fishing.

KSE was founded by US tycoon Stan Kroenke, owner of the Kroenke Sports Enterprise, which includes major North American sports teams such as NBA basketball franchise the Denver Nuggets, Major League Soccer club

Colorado Rapids and NFL American football franchise the St. Louis Rams.

The terms of the deal were not disclosed.