I expected Hockey to be the focus, and the outdoors would suffer. But, I did not expect that with the remaining outdoors programming, fishing would replace much of the hunting shows. Now, I just have to hope my cable provider offers another sports channel that has some hunting shows. I know there are others.
I dont know what they have in store for the future, I am just looking at my future programming. On the web site they have links to most of the shows they previously carried, but they do not show up in the schedule. My laymans guess is that NBC would not make this change if they did not have larger hopes, and competing with ESPN is probably more in line with that.