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 is the syndicated version of Phillips' series 8 Country Reporter, which debuted in 1972 on Dallas television station WFAA.
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. The show was once known as Dairy Queen Country Reporter in syndication, after one of its sponsors.
Although the show primarily airs in the Lone Star State, as of 2005 it was being aired on satellite and in the neighboring market of Shreveport, La., which reaches into parts of East Texas.
Related links
- Official site (http://texascountryreporter.com/), includes information on the people featured, events calendar and guide to Texas dialect.
- Phillips Productions (http://www.phillipsproductions.com/), Bob Phillips' company, which produces the show.Template:Tvseries-stub