Texas Country Reporter
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Texas Country Reporter is a long-running weekly syndicated television program hosted and produced by Bob Phillips. The show debuted in 1972 on Dallas television station KDFW, Channel 4, and was originally called 4 Country Reporter. In 1986, Phillips left KDFW and began selling the show in syndication, adopting the new Texas Country Reporter name. In the Dallas market, KDFW didn't pick up the syndicated version, but a rival station, WFAA, Channel 8, picked it up (calling the show 8 Country Reporter). The show currently airs in all 22 Texas media markets.
The series, generally aired on weekends, features segments about the people and places of rural Texas; some of these segments have also been individually broadcast on local stations' newscasts. Each week's show opens with Bob driving his SUV over the Regency Bridge, a small one-lane suspension bridge over the Colorado River between Richland Springs and Goldthwaite, Texas.
Texas Country Reporter is typically sponsored by regional advertisers; Phillips appears in many of the ads airing with the program, and sponsors' logos adorn the back of the famed SUV.
Although the show primarily airs in the Lone Star State, as of 2006, it was being aired on RFD-TV nationally via satellite and cable and in the neighboring market of Shreveport, La., which reaches into parts of East Texas.
A three-DVD set of segments from the series, Go! Stay! Eat!, was released September 17, 2005.
[edit] Related links
- Official site, includes information on the people featured, events calendar and guide to Texas dialect.
- Phillips Productions, Bob Phillips' company, which produces the show.
- RFD-TV, brief history of the show.
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