RFD-TV Launches New Political Series

Issues important to rural Americans, farmers, ranchers, and senior citizens will be the sole focus in a new series of live, one-hour, primetime programs featuring presidential candidates leading up to the primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. Produced by RFD-TV News, each program will offer individual candidates the opportunity to share their vision for rural America, while answering questions submitted by rural associations, organizations, and commodity groups. Veteran farm broadcaster Orion Samuelson will serve as host. RURAL TOWN HALL will premiere in June and air on Monday evenings at 8pm ET (7pm CT), with a repeat on Thursday evenings at 10pm ET (9pm CT). The program will be delivered to more than 65 million homes through RFD-TV, RURAL TV, and FamilyNet’s distribution on cable and satellite. In addition, RURAL RADIO on SiriusXM channel 80 will simulcast each town hall to SiriusXM’s 25+ million subscribers. Production will originate from the RFD-TV/RURAL RADIO studios on Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee, or remotely at town halls organized with the candidates in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. A complete schedule of each candidate’s appearance to follow. In addition, RFD-TV’s RURAL EVENING NEWS broadcast at 7:30pm ET (6:30pm CT) and repeated at 11:30pm ET (10:30pm CT), the only prime-time nightly news broadcast produced from a rural perspective, will cover political issues on a daily basis from RFD-TV’s dedicated news bureau located in Washington D.C. at the USDA and from reporters and mobile satellite trucks positioned around the countryside...more