Duck Dynasty Looking to Dump A&E!

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Duck Commander business was making millions selling duck calls before the A&E show, you can bet your bottom dollar they have good lawyers.

Now they are coming out with a line of guns under their Duck Commander business that A&E gets no part of which means more millions of more dollars.....

There are millions of hunters out there, in fact many times more hunters than America's standing army total. lots of potential income to be made in their own gun line for hunters..



Duck Dynasty Looking to Dump A&E!

After being hung out to dry by network executives,Duck Dynasty*patriarch Phil Robertson is thinking of dumping A&E and looking for another cable network to air his show.

(See also:*Duck Dynasty Set To Come Out With Its Own Gun Line)

Robertson is reportedly quite unhappy with how network executives handled the whole situation after an interview the Duck Commander gave to*GQ magazine erupted in controversy in December.

The Robertson family feels that executives abandoned them when gay advocacy groups began attacking Phil Robertson over his comments about homosexuality and only relented when it became clear that the network would take a financial hit because of executives’ actions.


“A&E messed with the wrong redneck,” a source close to the show*told the media. “Phil has agreed to return, but he’s already working on getting out their contracts.”

By some reports, Robertson thinks he can get the family out of the contracts they signed only last August–contracts that were supposed to keep them on A&E for at least two more seasons.

According to the source, Robertson is “confident lawyers can find a loophole and get them out of any long-term commitments.”


“Phil wants to use his company name Duck Commander as the title for an entirely new show that they can produce themselves and be in control of what goes on,” the source said.

The Robertson family made millions with their own duck call manufacturing business which brought them to the attention of reality show producers in the first place.

After Robertson’s comments on homosexuality, left-wingers and their media lapdogs began a systematic effort to destroy the family by constantly misreporting and misquoting what theDuck Dynasty*chief said about homosexuality.


Robertson merely paraphrased the Bible’s listing of sins, one of which was homosexuality. But despite what the Old Media establishment claims, Robertson did not attack gays, disparage them as human beings, or claim to pass judgment upon them.

?Duck Dynasty? Family Looking to Dump A&E! // Mr. Conservative








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“Phil wants to use his company name Duck Commander as the title for an entirely new show that they can produce themselves and be in control of what goes on,” the source said.

Hope that the Robertson clan is able to get this done.
Maybe when the new gun line comes out, they will be kind enough to send an appropriate number to the A&E hierarchy to use to shoot themselves in the other foot...
 

Hope that the Robertson clan is able to get this done.
Maybe when the new gun line comes out, they will be kind enough to send an appropriate number to the A&E hierarchy to use to shoot themselves in the other foot...

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When the people that you work with hand you out to the wolves it's time to find a different working environment. As Flex68 said, they pretty much shot themselves in their own foot.
 

Good for them, I hope they DO move, and I hope their new network makes a fortune because of it. A&E can go back to having no interesting shows and viewers counted in the thousands instead of millions.
 

"Duck Commander business was making millions selling duck calls before the A&E show..."

I'm more than a bit skeptical about that. "Millions?" selling duck calls? Say there are 3 million duck hunters in the US of A. Did every one of them purchase a duck call from these folks? I know there are bird watchers, etc., who may buy a call who don't hunt.

Still..."Millions?"

I continue to believe A&E's battalion of entertainment attorneys have the show locked up. Many greenhorns have tangled with Hollywood in the past. With the exception of Art Buchwald, they have all pretty much lost.

Good luck to all,

~ The Old Bookaroo
 

"Duck Commander business was making millions selling duck calls before the A&E show..."

I'm more than a bit skeptical about that. "Millions?" selling duck calls? Say there are 3 million duck hunters in the US of A. Did every one of them purchase a duck call from these folks? I know there are bird watchers, etc., who may buy a call who don't hunt.

Still..."Millions?"


Yes, millions.
They were a successful business before A&E came along. Seems I recall hearing when they sold their 'one millionth' call, and ---- considering the cheapest one that a quick search shows is about $15, and the most expensive ones well over $100, with specialized calls nearly $300---- it is easy to recognize that they were already well into the millions of dollars valuation pre-Duck Dynasty.

Time quote from 1 day ago, "Duck Commander has grown into a $400 million company, according to Forbes..."
 

DD didn't need A&E anyway really and this whole debacle made them even more popular than ever,win win,win,happy,happy,happy.
 

I hope they put the show on where Nascar races are aired then I am set!!
 

Flex68:

I think the "$400 Million" is post-A&E. IF it's true. Such numbers seldom are - look at Donald Chump.

Good luck to all,

~ The Old Bookaroo
 

"Duck Commander business was making millions selling duck calls before the A&E show..."

I'm more than a bit skeptical about that. "Millions?" selling duck calls? Say there are 3 million duck hunters in the US of A. Did every one of them purchase a duck call from these folks? I know there are bird watchers, etc., who may buy a call who don't hunt.

Still..."Millions?"

I continue to believe A&E's battalion of entertainment attorneys have the show locked up. Many greenhorns have tangled with Hollywood in the past. With the exception of Art Buchwald, they have all pretty much lost.

Good luck to all,

~ The Old Bookaroo

Shows you do not know what your talking about, they sell for $20.00 to $179 each, last year they sold 60,000 duck calls at average price of $60,00. 60,000 x $60 = $3.6 million and that is just in duck calls alone, they sell hundreds of more items on their website and stores.... They are projected to sale 750,000 duck calls alone this year so that is estimated $45,000,000 in JUST DUCK CALLS......


They are coming out with a line of guns soon as well they are well on their way to being a mega company without the ediots at A&E....

They are on a 2 year contract, there are ways out if they want to do it..... Their audience is loyal to them not to A&E............
 

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I'm happy to see the network getting a spanking for bending over backwards to pander to the righteous few… Phil, right or wrong, has a right to express his opinion.

It's a great thing that the clan is not going to back down from their values to appease a handful of letter writers who don't respect others rights to have a differing opinion.

Look what happened to Chick-fil-A. They didn't back away from their views after 3% of the population didn't like their statements. The company profits shot up and you couldn't get a seat in the restaurant.

Same thing is going to happen with the Robertsons. They will just get bigger because of this.
 

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I happy to see the network getting a spanking for bending over backwards to pander to the righteous few… Phil, right or wrong, has a right to express his opinion.

It's a great thing that the clan is not going to back down from their values to appease a handful of letter writers who don't respect others rights to have a differing opinion.

Look what happened to Chick-fil-A. They didn't back away from their views after 3% of the population didn't like their statements. The company profits shot up and you couldn't get a seat in the restaurant.

Same thing is going to happen with the Robertsons. They will just get bigger because of this.

I couldn't agree more.
 

As soon as their guns become available I'm buying...and I don't think I will be the only one. Long live DD!
 

As soon as their guns become available I'm buying...and I don't think I will be the only one. Long live DD!

I'm always looking for my next firearm.....






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Never watched the show, though I support them 100% - I don't duck hunt, only pheasant. Hey, maybe I'll buy a duck call to support them. Think it would work for pheasants? :laughing7:
 

Flex68:

I think the "$400 Million" is post-A&E.

Considering that I posted it was a quote from TIME, published the day prior to my post, then, yes....definitely "post-A&E"

If you had read the rest of my post---- or TH's post, afterwards---- you should be able to recognize that the company was well into the millions of dollars profitability before A&E....so what's your point?

Ever watched the show? If one simply takes into account Willie and Korie's house, then that alone should verify, as this is a multi-million dollar home that didn't just 'go up' in the last few months.

But you seem to be the type of person who wishes to simply argue, and I am likely wasting my typing.
Have heard it said that book smarts usually isn't paired with common sense, anyway, if you smell the way that particular wind is wafting.....
 

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You won't be seeing that Italian gun maker on the show or the commercials, they're now using an American Classic "Mossberg", saw the ad the other day.
 

8M? that's about what my twitter following is, cool
 

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