Outside TV emerged from a comprehensive rebranding initiative of the pre-existing Resort Sports Network, a national television network specializing in the creation and distribution of outdoor-lifestyle content tailored for prime vacation destinations across the country.

Over the next ten years, it produced the Outside Television Presents TV series, whose production Farther Than the Eye Can See,[3] captured blind climber Erick Weihenmayer's historic ascension to the summit of Mount Everest.

Into the Tsangpo Gorge aired on NBC Sports in May 2002 and was Outside Magazine's cover story in July 2002.

The addition of NCTC to Outside Television's other core distribution partners such as Comcast Xfinity makes the independent network available to more than 40 million homes.

[6] In 2021 Lawrence "Larry" Burke sold Outside TV to Robin Thurston who chose to rename the company Outside.