Mitch is right, the only source of income that the producers of these shows have is from their sponsors, in return, they advertise and plug their sponsors products. You shouldn't be whining about these ads and companies such as Mathews, you should be THANKING THEM! Without sponsors like Mathews, you wouldn't have these shows!

Mathews could also be a direct sponsor for TOC, and that is why you might see more advertisements than others. When buying air time, you are actually buying commercial time from the network. There are different packages that you can buy, and those packages are broken up by how many commercial minutes you are alloted in a half hour time period. It is cheaper to have fewer commercials, because that will give the rest of the commercial time to TOC to air their own commercials. This is why you might see a Ted Nugent or Roger Raglin promo in the middle of Secrets of the Hunt. If Mathews is a paying sponsor directly to TOC, then TOC will air their ads, even during shows that don't sponsor Mathews directly, because they are a channel subcriber, and not a show subscriber.

The air time and producing these shows aren't cheap, and if your only source of income is sponsors, it can be tough to find enough, or those couple of large sponsors, to afford your show and still pay the bills, let alone pay for all these hunts. With companies like Mathews that "spread the love" with sponsorship, I can only tip my hat to them.