Jerin Heartland

The Heartland Series jerin Shirye-shiryen talabijin ne game da al'adun Appalachia, wanda WBIR-TV na Knoxville, Tennessee, ya samar a cikin shekaru 25 1984 zuwa 2009. An samar da jerin ne a kan iyakanta tun 2010.

 Tarihin samarwa 
An tsara Jerin Heartland a cikin 1984 don tunawa da shekaru 50 da kafuwar Babban Gidan shakatawa na Smoky Mountains tare da jerin na musamman da ke murna da mutane da ƙasar Kudancin Appalachian Mountains .  An hayar dan wasa kwaikwayo Bill Landry don karɓar bakuncin jerin. Ya kasance malami a baya, ya rubuta kuma ya fara yin wasan mutum daya wanda ya danganci rayuwar Albert Einstein da ake kira "Einstein the Man," kuma ya nuna wani kyaftin din jirgin ruwa na Tennessee River mai suna "Captain Nat" a matsayin wani ɓangare na Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) a baje kolin Duniya na 1982 a Knoxville. Bayan baje kolin, ya ci gaba da taka rawar Kyaftin Nat a cikin yawon shakatawa na watanni na Tennessee, Cumberland, da Mississippi Rivers wanda TVA ta gudanar don cika shekaru 50 .  

Da farko an shirya jerin shirye-shiryen talabijin don gudana na watanni uku kawai. A cewar Landry, ainihin ra'ayi, wanda darektan ayyukan kirkirar WBIR Steve Dean da babban manajan tashar Jim Hart suka kafa, shine "don ɗaukar kyamara da yin hira da ragowar tsoffin mutanen dutse na ƙarshe kuma su je wurin. "  Kowane labari yana da tsawon minti uku da 40 seconds,  wanda aka tsara don watsawa a cikin minti biyar na lokaci yayin da kuma bayan watsa labarai na yau da kullun.

 Ƙarshen samarwa 
A watan Fabrairun 2009, WBIR ta ba da sanarwar shirye-shiryen dakatar da samar da jerin a watan Satumbar 2009 bayan ta kai shi "ta hanyar wani nau'i na ƙarshe".  Babban manajan WBIR Jeff Lee ya ambaci tattalin arziki a matsayin dalilin kawo karshen samarwa, yana mai lura da cewa "abin alatu ne ga mutane uku su samar da minti 3-1/2 na TV a mako".  Ya ce tashar za ta ci gaba da nuna daruruwan abubuwan da suka riga sun samar "idan masu kallo kamar su".  Fiye da shirin kawo karshen jerin su. An buga labarin karshe a Gidan Tarihi na Appalachia a Norris a ranar 8 ga watan Agusta, 2009 a gaban masu sauraro da aka kiyasta mutane 10,000, daya daga cikin manyan jama'a a tarihin gidan kayan gargajiya. Mutanen da ke neman takardar shaidar Landry sun jira a layi na awa daya. Nunin karshe ya nuna mawaƙa na gargajiya na Appalachia da yawa waɗanda suka bayyana a baya a cikin jerin, gami da fiddler Danny Gammon, Bobby Fulcher, Tony Thomas da Jimmy McCarroll . 

 Farfadowa 
Martanin da jama'a suka mayar game da soke shirin ya sa shugabannin kamfanin suka sake duba yadda zai ƙare. A shekarar 2010, an ba wa mai shirya shirin Steve Dean kwangilar shirya wasu shirye-shirye guda huɗu, kowanne na tsawon awa ɗaya.    An karɓe waɗannan shirye-shiryen sosai kuma sun haifar da sabbin shirye-shirye na tsawon awa ɗaya, waɗanda za a fitar a kowane wata, har zuwa 2011.

 Sanarwa da tasiri 
A cikin tarihin shekaru 25, The Heartland Series ya sami lambar yabo ta Emmy guda huɗu, lambar yabo ta Iris guda shida daga Hukumar Kula da Shirye-shiryen Talabijin ta Kasa, lambar azurfa ɗaya da lambobin tagulla guda biyu daga bikin fina-finai da talabijin na New York, da kuma lambar yabo ta Theodore Roosevelt don Mafi Kyawun Bayani na waje.

A ranar da aka buga labarin karshe, tsohon Sanata na Amurka Howard Baker, wanda ya bayyana a cikin wani labari, ya kira jerin "ƙaddamarwa ta ƙarshe ta tarihinmu da al'adunmu na ƙarni". Mark Brown, darektan labarai da alaƙar kafofin watsa labarai na Kwalejin Carson Newman, ya bayyana jerin a matsayin "mafi tsayin daka na bidiyon zamantakewar al'umma" kuma ya ce "ya yi wa Kudancin Appalachia abin da Studs Terkel ya yi wa Chicago".

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