Rural Media Group, Inc. is the world’s leading provider of multimedia content dedicated to rural and Western lifestyles. With a mission of reconnecting “city with country,” RMG is the parent company of RFD-TV (52 million homes), RURAL RADIO Channel 147 on SiriusXM Radio (33 million units), The Cowboy Channel (42 million homes), and RFD-TV The Magazine. RMG networks are distributed worldwide by DBS, telco, and cable systems, including DISH, DIRECTV®, Comcast, AT&T U-Verse, Mediacom, Charter Spectrum, Suddenlink, Cox, and more than 600 independent rural cable systems. Corporate headquarters are in Omaha, Nebraska; broadcast operations are in Nashville, Tennessee for RFD-TV and RURAL RADIO Channel 147 on SiriusXM Radio, and in the Fort Worth (Texas) Stockyards for The Cowboy Channel.
RFD-TV is the leading network for Rural Media Group. The name of the channel is a reference to rural free delivery, the name for the United States Postal Service's system of delivering mail directly to rural patrons Launched in December of 2000, RFD-TV is the country's first 24-hour TV station including programming focused on the agribusiness, equine and the provincial ways of life, alongside customary bluegrass music and amusement. RFD-TV produces six hours of live news every workday on the side of country America and is a main free link station accessible in excess of 52 million homes on DISH, DIRECTV®, AT&T U-Verse, Charter Spectrum, Cox, Comcast, Mediacom, Suddenlink, and numerous other provincial link frameworks. What's more, RFD-TV can be streamed online through RFD-TV Now at watchrfdtv.com, DIRECTV NOW, Roku, iOS, Android, Firestick, Apple TV, and Sling TV's Heartland Extra bundle. RFD-TV The Magazine is the print programming guide for RMG networks with includes articles, programming refreshes, and that's just the beginning. The publication is published bimonthly and has generally drawn in excess of 180,000 paid supporters. Our programming is now being appropriated into in excess of 63 million homes globally including the United States, New Zealand, and Australia by DBS, link frameworks, IPTV, and portable administrations. Partnered Program contributions incorporate both SD and HD programs and in excess of 55 families agreeable TV series from a program library of over 5,000 hours. Rustic Media contracted with Sony Pictures Television in September 2013 to deal with public promotion deals for RFD-TV, Rural TV, and Rural Radio. By August 2014, Rural Media Group started moving its Northstar Studio staff and a portion of its Omaha, Nebraska staff into subleased office space at 49 Music Square West, Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee. The remainder of the Omaha staff would continue in 2015 with the exception of Gottsch. Simultaneously, RMG Events LLC was framed and headed by RMG CEO Randy Bernard to run RMG occasions like RFD-TV's The American rodeo.
FamilyNet was changed over to a western way of life channel on July 1, 2017, tapping RFD-TV programming to begin. This was the first arrangement for FamilyNet, yet appearing to be restricted programming and interest, Gottsch held off. With RFD-TV drawing more watchers for its western programming and occasions like rodeos, the switch was made.
Rustic Media Group in mid-2018 bought the Imus Ranch, close to Santa Fe, as a TV creation base for its two TV channels' projects. Best of America by Horseback, Debbie Dunning's Dude Ranch Round-Up, and Gentle Giants were programs chosen to film there beginning by March 2019.