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RFD-TV is an American digital cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Rural Media Group. The channel features programming devoted to rural issues, concerns and interests. The channel's name is a reference to Rural Free Delivery, the name for the United States Postal Service's system of delivering mail directly to rural patrons. Production and uplinking facilities for RFD-TV are located at Northstar Studios in Nashville, Tennessee, while the channel's corporate and national sales office are based in Omaha, Nebraska. As of February 2015, RFD-TV is available to approximately 47.3 million pay television households (40.7% of households with television) in the United States. It is currently carried by satellite providers Dish Network and DirecTV, as well as through cable providers such as Mediacom, Charter Communications, Cox Communications, Verizon FiOS, Time Warner Cable and Armstrong.〔(RFD-TV Now Available to Cox Communications customers ) Retrieved March 21, 2010 〕〔(RFD-TV website: Find RFD-TV )〕 It is not available in most Comcast markets; Comcast controversially dropped the channel in many of its Western markets in favor of Al Jazeera America in 2013.〔Wiser, Daniel (May 8, 2014). (Comcast Dropped Popular Rural TV Network for Al Jazeera America ). ''Washington Free Beacon''. Retrieved May 11, 2014.〕 ==Background== The channel was launched on December 1, 2000. Since that point, the network has expanded its brand further; the channel sponsored a new theater that opened in Branson, Missouri in early 2007, called ''RFD-TV The Theater'' (housed in the former venue of comedian Ray Stevens). RFD-TV's programming is similar in format to that of The Nashville Network (which was eventually replaced by Spike, before relaunching as a digital multicast channel in 2012, which has since rebranded as Heartland). An international version of the channel called Rural TV launched on March 2, 2009 in the United Kingdom. Much of the programming of RFD-TV is focused on the culture of farming and agriculture, as well as the culture of the Great Plains of North America and the agriculture associated with that area. For many years, the station did not air infomercials, instead supplementing its advertising revenue with the sales of a company magazine and other merchandise (the infomercial ban has since been lifted, with infomercials now airing on the network during weekend overnight hours). The network also restricts its advertising and programming to products, advertisements, and shows fit to be seen by a family audience; products such as erectile dysfunction medications and male enhancement products are not permitted to be shown on RFD-TV.〔(RTV website:President's Promise ) Retrieved June 30, 2010〕 The network does feature traditional commercial advertising and holds occasional special phone-in forums sponsored by organizations such as Monsanto (for its RoundUp product line), John Deere, and the Medicare program, though the sponsorship of each program is clearly disclaimed in programming listings and disclaimers and hosts do not have interests in the products. At least two stations broadcast RFD-TV on broadcast television: Selective TV, Inc. broadcasts RFD-TV in the Alexandria, Minnesota television market as part of a slate of cable-to-air channels, on channel 34. K22CU-D in Cortez, Colorado, which is part of a similar slate of channels, broadcasts RFD-TV on its 22.3 digital subchannel. For a time in the early 2010s, RFD-TV also offered its programming via internet subscriptions. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「RFD-TV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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