A tractor-pulling contest in Rockwell, Iowa. “The Big Joe Polka Show.” A veterinarian discussing how to keep flies off cows. Its programing may not be the stuff of must-see television in urban and suburban America. But RFD-TV, which also carries gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Future Farmers of America convention, occupies an enduring, if narrow, niche on the television spectrum. Mr. Gottsch, whose spinoff properties include the Cowboy Channel, the Cowgirl Channel and Rural Radio, Channel 147 on SiriusXM, died on May 18 in Fort Worth.

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Persons: “, Joe, Hee, Patrick Gottsch, Gottsch Organizations: Future Farmers of, Cowboy Channel, Rural Radio Locations: Rockwell , Iowa, America, Future Farmers of America, SiriusXM, Fort Worth