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RFD-TV Parent Acquires FamilyNet

I hope this means we'll finally be getting Newhart (80's) reruns in my area. I also think this would be a great channel to have reruns of The Red Green Show and Corner Gas. :)
 
RFD-TV and Rural TV are two separate networks under the same ownership. RFD-TV will most likely keep its format of agricultural news, traditional country and polka music shows, and livestock auctions the way it is. Rural TV will add the G-rated entertainment programming (and possibly religious programs) of FamilyNet to its lineup.
 
I've lived in some rural areas, and I like RFD. Folksy, sometimes corny and kinda warm. You learn some things through their AG shows. Pretty good cattle auctions if you like to look at your future porterhouse too.....
 
RFD-TV is one the most entertaining channels we get on Direct TV.

Like a good bit of the content they carry.

It's very educational indeed.

Learn so much when I watch it.

Even enjoy watching some of their music shows too.

R.D.P. <><
 
As a city kid I agree with you about RFD being educational.

Reminds me of a training video I saw years ago for agricultural field sprayers.
That stuff they are putting down is very application specific. Too much or too little
and it will either be ineffective, or burn out your entire crop. And the nozzles you can
buy all spray at different rates and in different patterns, etc.

So they show this guy out in the field with his sprayer. He is wearing dirty Carhart
coveralls and a Mail Pouch hat. Kind of looks like Junior Samples. Then he pulls out a
scientific calculator and begins performing complex equations to calculate the specific
application dose (you have to factor in the flow rate and pattern of the spray nozzle,
the pressure in the tank, the speed at which the tractor is moving, etc.)

Totally blows away every "dumb hick" stereotype you may have ever heard.
 
I have no issues at all with RFDTV; they hit their target audience, and they hit it just right, and I assume the same of Rural TV. The other thing I love about them is their hardened stance against any infomercials or products designed to help males...ahem, 'perform'. It's the perfect background noise channel and their programming definitely is enlightening, especially their weekend travelogue programming that actually seems much better than anything the Travel Channel puts on today.

Glad that the deal too was made to give it guaranteed urban coverage finally in some places. It also gives Rural TV a good terrestrial audience with FN's over the air affiliates.
 
RFD-TV tried low-power TV coverage back in the late-'80s, but then shut down for ten years and was reborn under the same ownership as a satellite network. I wonder if they will be abandoning FN's broadcast affiliates, or just going full circle with Rural?

One thing I can say about RFD-TV is that Mollie B. makes watching midwesterners in their 70's and 80's dance the polkas easier to the eyes. How did they find someone fifty years younger than the average dancer in their audience to host something like that?
 
I apparently had RFD TV in mind when this thread started. Charter carries RFC, but not Rural TV, so I guess I won't be getting it for now anyway.
 
I know you meant that tounge in cheek, but considering Chicago is where agricultural commodity prices are set and the USDA is headquarted in Washington, DC, updates from those locations are ESSENTIAL to farmers.
 
I wonder what will happen to Your Health with Dr. Richard and Cindy Becker once the Rural TV programming makes its way to FamilyNet in full. Here in Oklahoma City, KSBI cherrypicked that program from FN and has aired it for a few years as a leftover from its former family-oriented format (prior to management changes and its current MyNetworkTV affiliation).
 
I hope they don't take away Mr. Belevedere that currently airs on Family Net. Although, they keep repeating the same 10 episodes so i guess I wouldn't miss it that much.
 
Does Family Net keep repeating the first 2 seasons of MTM and the Newhart shows like they were doing when it was on ALN, and does that mean that Rural TV will do that as well?
 
What will be the Channel new name and will it move to a different Package on Comcast because right know it's with the Church Channels?
 
anotherguy said:
Does Family Net keep repeating the first 2 seasons of MTM and the Newhart shows like they were doing when it was on ALN, and does that mean that Rural TV will do that as well?
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According to the listings, Mary Tyler Moore is in season 6 because they showed "Chuckles Bites The Dust" a couple of nights ago and Bob Newhart is in season 1 and Newhart is in season 2 right now.
 
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