Some programs bring in the outside world, and others report on the home communities, like Vermont PTV's Rural Free Delivery .
Public radio is the great leveling ground for all sorts of people.
His pigs listen to public radio. As for public television, you'd go to a town meeting and somebody was always bringing up something they saw on Nova the night before. Interviews with many pubcasting g.m.'s in rural areas, as well as conversations with devoted listeners like Verdon, support the finding that in this age of widespread cable, satellite and Internet options, all these media have limitations that make public television and radio a valued service out in the boondocks. Cable, for one, tends to be limited to areas with at least moderate population density, since it's not cost-effective to run the lines to individual homes miles apart from one another. He can, however, pick up public radio either from Fayetteville or over the Internet.