Posted on 11/23/2017 9:31:50 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
In the Nashville offices of RFD-TV, a network focused on agriculture and the rural lifestyle, there are hundreds of thousands of letters from fans. The notes, stacked in thick binders, were sent to the Federal Communications Commission in 2016, when Verizon Fios decided to remove the channel from its lineup.
“My husband and I, being seniors, loved to watch the RFD-TV channel. The channel has good clean wholesome programs and we don’t have to feel embarrassed if company should stop by.”
“I am very angered with Verizon Fios TV for removing RFD TV from their lineup. Viewing farm and ranch-related programs are of great interest to me even though I don’t live in the country.”
“Verizon has dropped RFD TV, which had on it a program that was a high point of my week called Trains and Locomotives. No other source has similar information and I miss it.”
And so on. While founder Patrick Gottsch was disheartened when Verizon dropped the channel (still available in 52 million homes), he wasn’t surprised about the passionate response. He believes too many networks ignore senior citizens and the rural audience....
(Excerpt) Read more at vnews.com ...
Love RFD
I can’t get it here.
So there really is an “RFD” designation, as with
Mayberry RFD with Andy Griffith? I always wondered what the letters stood for, if anything.
Rural Free Delivery.
My grandparents had such an address in southeast Ohio.
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Rural free delivery
I watch it on Sling TV, with the Heartland package.
Rural Free Delivery.
“Rural Free Delivery”
I lived in such a small town in the White Mountains in Arizona at one time we didn’t even have RFD. We had to go to the Post Office and pick up our mail.
Verizon is the pits,
Used to dig the early am farm reports on Sat morning waiting on toons!
You are dating yourself my FRiend. That is how I learned about pork bellies and other commodities while suckng down chocolate frosted surgar bombs for breakfast (apologies to Bill Watterson).
The originator of RFD is Bob Phillips from Dallas. He has a show called Texas Country Reporter.
Had it in New York State.
Also one that remembers RFD has to (or should) remember phone #s like CR5 7872 or New York 28, NY as a ‘bigger’ city would have more than one PO and it would go to a ‘zone’ in that city.
My Grandfather carried mail in Goshen NY for 45 or so years, walked the route entirely with just a mailbag.
I do not ever recall him behind the wheel of a car and he was alert enough when I knew him to drive....Maybe by choice etc but would be amazing if he could have been a mail carrier for 45 years and not possess a drivers license.
Grandpas house was the dropping off of the kids - even though it wasn’t his house, it belonged to his eldest daughter and he lived there along with a smattering of kids.
I used to ‘share’ a room with my Grandfather - it was sort of L shaped, at the top of the stairs - with a bed as you walked in, a dresser in the ‘hook’ and another bed with a closet ‘over’ the stairs’. Think the ‘closet was a luxury in those days.
I didn’t mind but never thought it ‘fair’ that I had to ‘share’ a bedroom BUT as I got older I thought ‘What a pain for my GF - work all his life and end up stuck in a tiny room with a teen ager...
Oh well.... Oh yes, My Aunt was an RN and you know that the Government never paid them a ‘dime’ for taking care of her father and any stray nieces and nephews that were dropped off...It was always...we will find room somewhere.
My GF had 8 kids, the oldest worked for the RR, and the other 7 2 boys, 5 girls were registered nurses.
My Mother & Father were RN’s ...kind of strange for the 40s, stranger yet HER mother was a Christian Scientest and ‘they’ laid claim to being Mayflower descendants though I never really believed it BUT was smart enough to not express doubt .... I believe ALL New Englanders laid claim to the Mayflower...Like they used to say if EVERYONE had been to the ballgame that Babe Ruth pointed his Homerun, the stadium would have sunk (Much like Johnstons Guam sinking)
And so, these seniors and farmers will now be forced to get their programs from taxpayer-funding Public TV.
Same.
I’ve seen some fantastic episodes of Texas Country Reporter!
As do we! Caught RFD on the large satellite dish years ago. Just recently, remembering the channel and the many others we are now missing after the industry went belly up. Loved the weekly show which featured the dances held in parts of the plains (hoe-downs and polkas).
Does RFD-TV have a website? Trains and Locomotives? A show about Railroads?? Cool...any original programs?
Get RFD TV on Spectrum. Watch it all the time. Good TV. No sex, violence, politics or BS. Very enjoyable.
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