Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: C25053
Notes:
Retrieved December 12, 2006., Via AgriMarketing e-news. 2 pages., Commission finds that RFD-TV is acting like a commercial enterprise instead of a noncommercial entity with an educational mission, so may not use DBS set-aside capacity to air the Superior livestock auctions.
February 5 issue via online. 3 pages., Describes the addition as a way for editors and advertisers to connect with corn and soybean growers, in particular, during the growing season.
Describes how Cyrus Curtis bought Country Gentleman magazine in 1911 and it became "the dominant farm publication of the 1920s." The magazine "took the nineteenth-century symbol of the yeoman farmer and recast it in terms of consumption. In doing so, it created an idealistic image of a new class of consumers, an image that urban advertisers easily understood and willingly bought." CG had 2.4 million subscribers when it was sold to Farm Journal and Town Journal in 1955.
USA: Federal Communications Commission, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: C25052
Notes:
Retrieved December 12, 2006., FCC 06-172. 6 pages., Commission finds that RFD-TV is acting like a commercial enterprise instead of a noncommercial entity with an educational mission, in terms of airing the Superior livestock auctions.
