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Article: For the Record.(Rural Media launches Rural Television channel)(Yankees Entertainment and Sports Network L.L.C)(CBS College Sports signs deal with DirecTV)
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- March 2, 2009
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RFD-TV Parent Launches Rural TV On U.K.'s BSkyB Satellite Provider
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Nashville - Patrick Gottsch's Rural Media , parent of 40-million-subscriber U.S. cable network RFD-TV , March 2 launched Rural TV on satellite-TV provider BSkyB in the United Kingdom. It also plans to add additional U.K. homes later this month with a launch on the FreeSat platform.
Rural TV - which gains a platform of 8 million U.K. homes via channel 281 on News Corp.-owned BSkyB - is described as the world's first 24-hour international television network dedicated to crossing borders with farming, equine, rural lifestyle and traditional country music ...