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Postcards from Nebraska
One of the influences for
launching RFD-TV was the
wonderful features and stories
on Charles Kuralt’s CBS
Sunday Morning television
program. Growing up a
Nebraska farm boy, it was with
a special interest that I made it
a point to try and never miss a
Postcards From Nebraska
segment that would appear
regularly in the long-running
CBS News program from
1988 through 1999.
Beautifully written by Roger
Welsch, and exquisitely
produced by Bud Lamoreaux,
these 5-minute-or- so stories
about small-town life in
Nebraska inspired a great deal
of pride in me about my home
state while portraying “rural”
people and “rural” living in
such a positive way not
normally seen on urban-based
network television. For
example, the way a
community rallied around a
young farm family after a
tragic tractor accident as it was
documented in “Harvest”, or
the looks on children’s faces
when a “Circus” came to Roger’s hometown of
Dannebrog (population 320 at the time) are
classics, and are just as moving today as they
were the first time they aired. The combination
of RogerWelsch’s essays and the
production/editing of these episodes were that
good.
RFD-TV is proud to announce that has
purchased the right to air these segments on
television again through a special 4-year
agreement with CBS Eye TOO Productions.
RFD-TV will organize and combine several of
these original episodes into its own weekly halfhour
show, Postcards From Nebraska on RFDTV,
which will premiere on Sunday evenings
beginning the first Sunday in September. Each
show will contain at least four of these timeless
stories, along with an updated segment focused
on a different area of Nebraska each week.
Nearly 200 of these individual stories were
produced over the 11 years. Although
Nebraska people, places, and things served as
the backdrop for these productions, the stories
truly can be identified with Anytown, U.S.A.
It’s about rural people. Family values. Small
town characters and country humor.
The show will also be ground-breaking in that
we are attempting to attract Nebraska-based
organizations and businesses to sponsor and
advertise in the program in support of this
positive portrayal of Nebraska life to a national
audience, including the state’s tourism board,
commodity check-off groups, and companies.
If successful, we believe that this format could
then prove as the template to get support for
other RFD-TV programming originating from
other states, including shows like Texas
Country Reporter, California Country, Georgia
Farm Monitor, Dakota Life, and so on. It has
always been one of RFD-TV’s goals to feature
at least one weekly show from every state or
region of this great country into our everexpanding
program schedule.
