RFD-TV

RFD-TV (Rural Free Delivery Television) was launched in 1988 by Patrick Gottsch. The channel was not picked up by any carriers.{{cite news |last1=Stevens |first1=Siri |title=Patrick Gottsch |url=https://rodeonews.com/patrick-gottsch/ |access-date=July 28, 2020 |work=The Rodeo News |date=December 2, 2019}} This attempt ended in bankruptcy. Another attempt was made in the 1990s, but could not get funding.{{cite news |last1=Blitstein |first1=Ryan |title=RFD-TV: How an Ex-Farmer Built a $25 Million Media Empire for Rural America |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/1400900/rfd-tv-how-ex-farmer-built-25-million-media-empire-rural-america |access-date=July 28, 2020 |work=Fast Company |date=November 1, 2009}} Gottsch continued to look for programming. Beginning in 2000, the channel was a non-profit.{{cite news |last1=Littleton |first1=Cynthia |title=Cablers Mine Gold With Sticks Mix |url=https://variety.com/2013/tv/columns/cablers-mine-gold-with-sticks-mix-1200002781/ |access-date=July 28, 2020 |work=Variety |date=March 5, 2013 |language=en}} RFD-TV was picked up by Dish Network in December 2000{{cite news |last1=Steinberg |first1=Brian |title=Sony Pictures TV To Handle Ad Sales For Rural Media Group |url=https://variety.com/2013/tv/news/sony-pictures-tv-to-handle-ad-sales-for-rural-media-group-1200604697/ |access-date=July 28, 2020 |work=Variety |date=September 9, 2013 |language=en}} then DirecTV in 2002. It was initially launched as a nonprofit channel, using a loophole in federal regulations to encourage the two satellite providers to pick up the channel by carrying educational and informational content, an idea originally suggested by Dish Network.{{Cite web |last=Haring |first=Bruce |date=2024-05-23 |title=Patrick Gottsch Dies: Founder Of The Cowboy Channel And RFD-TV Was 70 |url=https://deadline.com/2024/05/patrick-gottsch-dead-founder-the-cowboy-channel-and-rfd-tv-was-70-obituary-1235929085/ |access-date=2024-07-02 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}} The Federal Communications Commission struck down this effort in 2007 due to the channel's reliance on commercial television content.Farm Journal Inc., Order and Declaratory Ruling, FCC 06-172, adopted, November 28, 2006. The channel was then restructured as a for-profit enterprise, for which it rented a Nashville studio and hired experienced TV executives including Ed Frazier, former Liberty Sports CEO.

RFD-TV was initially conceived as effectively four channels in one space: an agriculture channel, a horse channel, a rural music and entertainment channel, and a rural lifestyle channel, relying mainly on existing programming from the syndicated market to fill its broadcast day. The acquisition of Imus in the Morning in 2007 after over a decade on MSNBC was designed to retain its satellite carriage after the FCC ruling as well as convince additional cable providers to add RFD-TV to its channel lineups.{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/14/arts/television/14imus.html | title=Rural Channel Will Carry Imus Show |author=Jacques Steinberg |newspaper=The New York Times | date=2007-10-14}}{{cite news | url=http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071105/BUSINESS01/711050328 | title=Source: RFD-TV hopes Imus opens urban markets |author=Beverly Keel |newspaper=The Tennessean | date=2007-11-05}} Imus left for Fox Business Network in 2009.{{cite news| url=http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2009/09/03/2009-09-03_shock_jock_don_imus_signs_deal_with_fox_business_network.html | location=New York | work=Daily News | title=Shock jock Don Imus signs television deal with Fox Business Network | first=David | last=Hinckley | date=September 3, 2009}}

RFD-HD, a high definition feed of RFD-TV that broadcasts in the 1080i resolution format, first began broadcasting in high definition in the fall of 2007.{{cite news |last1=Moss |first1= Linda |title=RFD-TV Goes HD |url=https://www.multichannel.com/news/rfd-tv-goes-hd-331143 |access-date=July 28, 2020 |work=Multichannel |date=July 26, 2007 |language=en-us |archive-date=December 4, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071204124018/http://www.multichannel.com/article/CA6463271.html |url-status=dead }}

In mid-2009, the channel gained carriage on Cox Cable. RFD began a rural news department in late 2009 with bureaus in London and Washington, DC.

Rural Media contracted with Sony Pictures Television in September 2013 to handle RFD-TV's and other properties' national ad sale. By August 2014, Rural Media Group began moving its Northstar Studio/RFD-TV staff and some of its Omaha, Nebraska staff into subleased office space at 49 Music Square West, Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee. The rest of the Omaha staff would follow in 2015 except Gottsch.{{cite news |last1=Gibbons |first1=Kent |title=RFD-TV Leaving Omaha For Nashville |url=https://www.multichannel.com/news/rfd-tv-leaving-omaha-nashville-383280 |access-date=July 28, 2020 |work=Multichannel |publisher=Future Publishing Limited |date=August 20, 2014 |language=en-us}}

In the 2016 presidential election, the Trump campaign purchased all possible advertising spots in the last two weeks before the election. By January 2017, the channel opened a bureau in Sao Paulo, Brazil, to cover Brazil's growing agriculture industry, which is heavily interconnected to the United States through companies like Brazil's JBS.{{cite news |last1=Littleton |first1=Cynthia |title=Network Aimed at Rural America Speaks for Population That Feels Underserved by the Media |url=https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/rfd-tv-rural-america-1201963217/ |access-date=July 28, 2020 |work=Variety |date=January 19, 2017 |language=en}}

A Canadian version of the channel was launched on February 1, 2020, on Shaw Direct television systems through a partnership with Rural Media.{{cite web|title=RFD-TV launches in Canada|url=https://rodeonews.com/rfd-tv-and-the-cowboy-channel-announce-canada-launch-as-well-as-launch-of-prorodeo-tonight/|website=Rodeo News|date=January 16, 2020 |access-date=May 20, 2024}}

When Don Imus returned to radio in late 2007, he had also struck a deal to simulcast Imus in the Morning on RFD-TV after moving to WABC for the rest of his career. The program was broadcast on the channel from 6 to 9 a.m. Eastern Time on weekdays, along with a primetime telecast of the program on its high definition simulcast channel RFD-HD. During much of the show's run, a news ticker was shown with the day's news, similar to that featuring when Imus in the Morning was simulcast on MSNBC. The video simulcast of the program ended its run on RFD-TV on August 28, 2009, and moved to Fox Business Network several weeks later.{{Cite web|url=http://www.multichannel.com/article/329082-Don_Imus_RFD_Part_Ways.php|title=Don Imus, RFD Part Ways - Move Pays Could Pave Way For Disc Jockey To Join Fox Business Network}}

After Imus's retirement, RFD-TV owner Patrick Gottsch purchased Imus's 3,000-acre ranch.

One of the first programs to be aired on RFD-TV was The Big Joe Polka Show, a polka and dance variety program hosted by Omaha resident Joseph "Big Joe" Siedlik, which continued to be popular among the network's estimated (approximately) 40 million+ available households until it ended its run on January 1, 2011. In 2010, litigation commenced between RFD-TV and The Big Joe Polka Show{{'}}s creators/producers of Polka Cassettes of Nebraska, involving several lawsuits and countersuits (mostly over a contractual dispute). RFD-TV contends that it had an option to air the program until December 31, 2010, while Polka Cassettes of Nebraska contends that the show was being aired against their wishes, and after cessation of the effectiveness of the previous contract, which expired on December 31, 2009. In August 2010, a multimillion-dollar "slander and defamation" suit was brought against Polka Cassettes of Nebraska by RFD-TV.Source: Public Record: The Fourth Judicial District Court of Nebraska Clerk of Courts, date of inquiry Monday, August 30, 2010, Douglas County, Nebraska In 2011, the court granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment and dismissed RFD-TV's lawsuit as being without merit.{{Cite web |url=http://www.fraserstryker.com/Resources/PDF-Files/Rural-Media-Group-v-Siedlik.pdf |title=Court document |access-date=2015-02-15 |archive-date=2015-02-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150215210416/http://www.fraserstryker.com/Resources/PDF-Files/Rural-Media-Group-v-Siedlik.pdf |url-status=dead }} In January 2015, Joseph "Big Joe" Siedlik died.{{Cite web|url=https://columbustelegram.com/news/local/polka-show-host-big-joe-dies-at-80/article_921733ba-69c3-58a2-9e87-94c4263c74ea.html|title=Polka show host 'Big Joe' dies at 80|first=Julie |last=Blum|website=Columbus Telegram|date=4 January 2015 }}{{Cite web|url=https://omaha.com/entertainment/big-joe-polka-show-host-dies-of-cancer-at-age-80/article_08cd5c5a-d7ea-52a7-8e52-5811a5aa7d92.html|title='Big Joe Polka Show' host dies of cancer at age 80|first=Julie Anderson / World-Herald staff|last=writer|website=Omaha.com|date=2 January 2015 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.rfdtv.com/story/27765895/polka-legend-big-joe-siedlik-passes|title=Polka Legend|website=www.rfdtv.com}}

The show was replaced by The RFD-TV Polka Fest on January 5, 2011, and aired during the same timeslots. RFD-TV Polka Fest was later replaced by Mollie B Polka Party, hosted by Mollie Busta in July 2011. Wednesday afternoons, starting in September 2015 featured selected reruns of the Big Joe Polka Show under the name Big Joe Polka Classics.

Other programs added in Winter 2007-2008 included a revival of Crook & Chase (which returned to TNN [now Heartland] upon its relaunch in 2012) and Bluegrass & Backroads.{{cite news |url=http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071105/BUSINESS01/711050328 |title=Source: RFD-TV hopes Imus opens urban markets |author=Beverly Keel |newspaper=The Tennessean |date=2007-11-05}}

===Machinery Pete===

Greg Peterson "Machinery Pete" half-hour show averages 125,000+ {{Cite web|url=https://www.rfdtv.com/story/23808506/machinery-pete|title=Machinery Pete TV|website=www.rfdtv.com}} viewers weekly on RFD-TV. "Machinery Pete" is the brand name to the business of Greg Peterson{{Cite web|url=https://www.agriculture.com/author/greg-peterson|title=Greg Peterson|website=Successful Farming}}, who is an expert on data within researching and tracking {{Cite web|url=https://www.agriculture.com/farm-management/programs-and-policies/Machinery-Pete-Record-prices-on-Nebraska-auction_309-ar6433|title = Machinery Pete: Record prices on Nebraska auction|date = 16 June 2010}} machinery auction prices since 1989. Expertise within the farmers and dealers to look at and estimate the value on used farm equipment and the real value at auction.{{Cite web|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/wild-bidding-wars-erupt-used-141507973.html|title = Wild Bidding Wars Erupt at Used-Tractor Auctions Across the U.S.}} Greg Peterson was quoted in November 2021 in Bloomberg news regarding how much over the estimate a sale went.{{cite news | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-11-13/deere-strike-ignites-bidding-wars-for-used-tractors | title=Wild Bidding Wars Erupt at Used-Tractor Auctions Across the U.S. | newspaper=Bloomberg.com | date=13 November 2021 }} Crain's Chicago Business also {{Cite web|url=https://www.chicagobusiness.com/manufacturing/wild-bidding-wars-erupt-used-tractor-auctions-across-us|title = Wild bidding wars erupt at used-tractor auctions across the U.S.|date = 14 November 2021}} referenced "Machinery Pete" on the booming records in Farm Machinery Auction Pricing in 2021 as did the Watertown Daily Times{{Cite web|url=https://www.nny360.com/communitynews/business/wild-bidding-wars-erupting-at-used-tractor-auctions-across-the-u-s/article_d3b152cd-226b-55c6-82a1-32ceda12ded3.html|title=Wild bidding wars erupting at used-tractor auctions across the U.S.|first=Joe|last=DeauxBloomberg|website=NNY360|date=14 November 2021 }} and The Packer.{{cite web | url=https://www.thepacker.com/news/industry/john-deere-and-uaw-reach-new-6-year-deal-ending-month-long-strike | title=John Deere and UAW reach new 6-year deal, ending month-long strike | date=18 November 2021 }}{{Cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/world/the-great-reboot/desperate-tires-components-shortage-roils-us-harvest-2021-10-12/|title='Desperate for tires.' Components shortage roils U.S. Harvest|newspaper=Reuters|date=12 October 2021|last1=Huffstutter|first1=P. j.|last2=Weinraub|first2=Mark}} "As harvest ends, we will see farmers at equipment auctions, not for the machinery - but for parts," Peterson said. "We're already hearing from guys talking about buying a second planter or sprayer, just for parts."Machinery Pete" Greg Peterson as quoted by Reuters in October 2021. As of November 2021, Machinery Pete has 47,100 subscribers on YouTube.

Greg Peterson is from Benson, Minnesota, and attended Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. starting "Machinery Pete" back in 1989 out of his basement in Rochester, Minnesota buying a small company for $2,600 {{Cite web|url=https://www.postbulletin.com/agrinews/news/minnesota/years-later-machinery-pete-still-the-most-trusted-name-in/article_c97913da-e07b-11e9-807d-0bd82f515656.html|title = 30 years later, Machinery Pete still the most trusted name in farm equipment| date=3 October 2019 }} that had a subscription service for prices that followed auction prices. A traditional book was mailed out four times a year to a customer base before the age of the Internet. Later on "Machinery Pete" used computers to compile Used Values Index reports. These reports painted a larger and complete picture of the value of farm and construction equipment.

"Machinery Pete" launched his website over 20 years ago{{Cite web|url=https://www.machinerypete.com/|title=Used Farm Equipment for Sale | Machinery Pete|website=www.machinerypete.com}} machinerypete.com, followed by a Facebook page for a global audience since for the last 25 plus years "Machinery Pete" has been covering farm equipment auctions for various industry magazines and trade journals.

In 2021,{{Cite web|url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/machinery-pete-podcast/id1473619391|title = Machinery Pete Podcast on Apple Podcasts| date=28 July 2023 }} "Machinery Pete" had over 40 Apple Podcasts.{{Cite web|url=https://podcasts.apple.com/za/podcast/machinery-pete-podcast/id1473619391|title = Machinery Pete Podcast on Apple Podcasts| date=28 July 2023 }}{{Cite web|url=https://podcasts.apple.com/id/podcast/consolidation-in-farm-auction-industry/id1473619391?i=1000540517484|title=Machinery Pete Podcast: Consolidation in Farm Auction Industry on Apple Podcasts|website=Apple Podcasts}}

Greg Peterson has been covering farm equipment auctions for various industry magazines for more than 25 years and did the same during six seasons of RFD's Machinery Show. Now Peterson has his own show, which shares its title with his nickname: "Machinery Pete." Each episode features Peterson traveling to a farm machinery auction, where he meets some of the people who attend the sales where items like tractors and skid steers are sold. He also provides his analysis of current and historical trends in the used equipment market and answers viewers' questions about what their equipment is worth in the "Ask Machinery Pete" segment.

Peterson's show, Machinery Pete TV, is offered in syndication through Farm Journal (also syndicator of AgDay and U.S. Farm Report) in addition to its RFD run; he also contributes to those shows as an interviewee.

File:20171025-OSEC-PJK-267 TONED (37937429451).jpg being interviewed on RFD-TV in 2017.]]

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• Ag PhD
• AgDay
• The American Rancher
• America's Heartland
• The Bluegrass Trail
• Best of America by Horseback{{Cite web|url=https://www.rfdtv.com/story/22867625/best-of-america-by-horseback|title=Best of America by Horseback|website=www.rfdtv.com}}
• Big Joe Polka Show (entertainment)
• California Bountiful
• Classic Tractor Fever
• Corn Warriors{{Cite web|url=https://www.rfdtv.com/story/37627590/corn-warriors|title=Corn Warriors|website=www.rfdtv.com}}
• Country's Family Reunion (and its variants)
• Cow Guy Close (commodity markets news hosted by Scott Shellady, a.k.a. the "Cow Guy")
• Dailey & Vincent
• The Daniel O'Donnell Show
• Debbe Dunning's Dude Ranch Roundup
• The Duttons Through the Years
• Farm Report Georgia
• Gaither Gospel Hour
• Gentle Giants
• Heart to Heart Classics with Stan Hitchcock
• Hee Haw
• Hidden Heritage (hosted by Paul LaRoche)
• I Love Toy Trains
• In Touch
• The Jimmy Sturr Show
• Larry's Country Diner
• Little Britches on the Road
• Little Britches Rodeo
• Machinery Pete TV
• Market Day Report
• The Marty Stuart Show
• Mecum Auctions: Gone Farmin'
• The Merlin Gene Show
• Midwest Country
• Ms. Lucy’s Cajun Classroom (lifestyle)
• NTPA Tractor Pull
• Pathway to Victory with Robert Jeffress
• Positively Paula
• The Penny Gilley Show
• The Porter Wagoner Show
• PRCA National Finals Rodeo
• Presleys' County Jubilee
• Ray Stevens' Cabaray Nashville
• The Red Skelton Show
• Red Steagall Is Somewhere West of Wall Street
• Reno's Old-Time Country Music (hosted by Ronnie Reno, son of Don Reno)
• Rural Evening News
• Rural Heritage
• Rural Town Hall (public affairs/news)
• Small Town Big Deal
• Texas Country Reporter
• This Week in Agribusiness with Orion Samuelson and Max Armstrong
• This Week in Louisiana Agriculture
• Training Mules and Donkeys (equine)
• Trains & Locomotives
• Turning Point
• U.S. Farm Report
• Voices of Agriculture (Virginia)
• The Wilburn Brothers Show
• Wild Kingdom
• WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour

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The following programs were aired on RFD-TV at one point, but are no longer listed on the official website.

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• Campfire Cafe
• Country Carnival
• Crook & Chase
• Cumberland Highlanders
• Imus in the Morning (2007 – August 2009; entertainment
• The Joey Canyon Show
• Live from Daryl's House (Music and entertainment)
• The Lone Ranger
• Lynn Palm (equine)
• Monty Roberts (equine)
• Out There with Baxter Black
• Ralph Emery
• RFD-TV the Theatre (Branson, Missouri)
• Richard Shrake (Equine)
• Richard Winters (Equine)
• The Roy Rogers Happy Trails Theatre/The Roy Rogers Show
• RV Today (Rural Lifestyle)
• The Shotgun Red Variety Show
• Showcase Jubilee
• Tim Farmer's Country Kitchen
• Turnin' to Country (Travel / Lifestyle)
• UK Extension (Agriculture){{Div col end}}

{{Infobox company

| name = Rural Media Group

| type = Private

| industry = Media

| founded = {{Start date and age|1988}}

| founder = Patrick Gottsch

| hq_location = 49 Music Square West, Music Row

| hq_location_city = Nashville, Tennessee

| hq_location_country = US

| subsid = {{ubl|RFD-TV|RFD-TV Magazine|Rural Radio|RMG Events LLC}}

}}

Rural Media Group is a media holding company.

RFD-TV (Rural Free Delivery Television) was launched in 1988 by Patrick Gottsch but was not picked up until 2000. The group expanded with the RFD-TV: The Magazine in 2003 then RFD HD in 2008.

Rural Media Group bought the Country Tonite/Ray Stevens Theater with 2000 seats in Branson, Missouri, and renamed it the RFD-TV Theatre on March 24, 2007.{{cite news |last1=Rutherford |first1=John |title=Here's what happened this week in Ozarks history |url=https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2018/03/19/heres-what-happened-week-ozarks-history/423978002/ |access-date=July 28, 2020 |work=Springfield News-Leader |date=March 19, 2018}}

A British version, Rural TV, was launched in 2008, followed by a US launch on February 15, 2012, on Dish Network. Rural focused on news and international programming.{{cite news |title=RFD TV spinoff Rural TV debuts |url=https://www.ocj.com/2012/03/rfd-tv-spinoff-rural-tv-debuts/ |access-date=July 28, 2020 |work=Ohio Ag Net |date=March 1, 2012}} In October 2012, Rural Media purchased from Interactive Television and Gaming Networks (formerly Comstar Media) FamilyNet. The two channels would combine on January 1, 2013.{{cite news |last1=Gibbons |first1=Kent |title=Rural TV Parent Buys FamilyNet |url=https://www.multichannel.com/news/rural-tv-parent-buys-familynet-359973 |access-date=July 28, 2020 |work=Multichannel |date=October 22, 2012 |language=en-us}}

Rural Media contracted with Sony Pictures Television in September 2013 to handle national ad sales for RFD-TV, Rural TV and Rural Radio. By August 2014, Rural Media Group began moving its Northstar Studio staff and some of its Omaha, Nebraska staff into subleased office space at 49 Music Square West, Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee. The rest of the Omaha staff would follow in 2015 except Gottsch. At the same time, RMG Events LLC was formed and headed by RMG CEO Randy Bernard to run RMG events such as The American Rodeo.

FamilyNet was changed over to a western lifestyle network on July 1, 2017, tapping RFD-TV programming to start. This was the original plan for FamilyNet, but seeming limited programming and interest, Gottsch held off. With RFD-TV drawing more viewers for its western programming and events like rodeos, the switch was made. Thus, The Cowboy Channel was launched.{{cite news |title=Rural Media Is Changing FamilyNet to The Cowboy Channel |url=https://www.multichannel.com/news/rural-media-changing-familynet-cowboy-channel-413640 |access-date=July 29, 2020 |work=Multichannel |date=June 22, 2017 |language=en-us}}

Rural Media Group in early 2018 purchased the Imus Ranch, near Santa Fe, as a television production base for its two TV channels' programs. Best of America by Horseback, Debbie Dunning’s Dude Ranch Round-Up, and Gentle Giants were programs selected to film there starting in March 2019.{{cite news |title=Rural Media Group to use New Mexico ranch as production base |url=https://apnews.com/7a1287b66652420b9fd8564c0fa031ca |access-date=July 28, 2020 |work=AP News|date=November 24, 2018}}

The Cowgirl Channel was launched on March 1, 2023. It specializes in programming about women in professional rodeo, western fashion, and rural lifestyles in general through the perspectives of women. Rodeos not televised on The Cowboy Channel are televised on The Cowgirl Channel.{{cite web|title=The Cowgirl Channel launches|url=https://www.thecowboychannel.com/the-cowgirl-channel-to-officially-launch-with-stockyards-kickoff-party-march-1|website=The Cowboy Channel|date=March 2023 |access-date=May 20, 2024}}

Patrick Gottsch, the founder and president of RFD-TV and Rural Media Group, died on May 18, 2024, at the age of 70.{{cite web|title=Rural Media Group president Patrick Gottsch passes away|url=https://www.thecowboychannel.com/patrick-gottsch-rural-media-groups-visionary-founder-and-president-has-passed-away-at-age-70|website=The Cowboy Channel|date=May 18, 2024 |access-date=May 20, 2024}} He was succeeded in leadership of Rural Media Group by his two eldest daughters, Raquel Gottsch Koehler and Gatsby Gottsch Solheim.{{cite web|title=Rural Media Group (RFD-TV) sells its Cowboy and Cowgirl Channels to Teton Ridge|url=https://www.agrimarketing.com/s/151867|website=AgriMarketing|access-date=December 5, 2024}}

On November 20, 2024, Teton Ridge announced it had acquired The Cowboy Channel, The Cowgirl Channel, and their companion streaming service, Cowboy Channel+, from Rural Media Group.{{Cite web |date=2024-11-20 |title=Teton Ridge Acquires The Cowboy Channel to Drive Future of Western Sports |url=https://www.thecowboychannel.com/teton-ridge-acquires-the-cowboy-channel-to-drive-future-of-western-sports |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=The Cowboy Channel |language=en}} RMG Co-Owner Raquel Gottsch Koehler addressed the sale of the two rodeo networks in a statement following the sale:{{Cite web |date=2024-11-20 |title=Today is a historic day for Rural Media Group and the Gottsch family! |url=https://www.rfdtv.com/today-is-a-historic-day-for-rural-media-group-and-the-gottsch-family |access-date=2024-11-21 |website=RFD-TV |language=en}}

"For Rural Media Group, this sale allows us to strategically refresh and focus on our flagship network, [https://www.rfdtv.com/ RFD-TV], as it approaches its 25th anniversary, with the goal to expand our presence across multiple platforms. We will now be able to strengthen our programming and dig deeper into our core mission to reconnect city with country, bringing stories of agriculture, rural life, conservation, and land stewardship to more people than ever before along with an expansion in music and entertainment, as Rural Media Group will continue operating the Auction Barn Studio in the historic Fort Worth Stockyards in addition to its studios on Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee. This sale is about growth and investing in RFD-TV, [https://www.watchrfdtv.com/ RFD-TV Now], Rural Radio Channel 147 on SiriusXM, and [https://www.farmher.com/ FarmHER] + [https://www/rfdtv.com/ranchher/ RanchHER], growing our presence in the rural media space to tell even more stories about America’s heartland and beyond."

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