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The Rural Channel

The Rural Channel is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand The Rural Channel rather than just read about it. In short: The Rural Channel (often abbreviated as TRC) is a Canadian English language specialty television channel and subscription streaming service broadcasting rural lifestyle programming with a particular emphasis on agriculture and equine programming. The channel is owned by Ag-Com Productions and launched on May 29, 2013.

Key takeaways

The Rural Channel belongs to science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect The Rural Channel to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of The Rural Channel from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

The Rural Channel (often abbreviated as TRC) is a Canadian English language specialty television channel and subscription streaming service broadcasting rural lifestyle programming with a particular emphasis on agriculture and equine programming. The channel is owned by Ag-Com Productions and launched on May 29, 2013.

History On August 13, 2008, Ag-Com Productions Ltd. was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch The Rural Channel, described at the time of license as a "national, English-language Category 2 specialty programming service devoted to serving the interests and needs of individuals and families living outside of major cities in smaller and rural communities across Canada, with a focus on the agriculture industry." Originally intending to launch the channel in 2011, Ag-Com Productions delayed the launch until 2013 for Shaw Direct to launch its new satellite. The channel officially launched on May 29, 2013 exclusively on Shaw Direct in standard definition. A few weeks later in June, the channel launched a high definition channel simulcasting the standard-definition feed on EastLink. The channel has since launched on several other television service providers, including Telus and Access Communications. In late 2020, Ag-Com launched TRC Go, an online subscription service streaming The Rural Channel live.

Programming Programming on The Rural Channel has remained consistent from its initial launch to current day, focusing on a mix of agriculture news and information, general rural lifestyle, and equine programming. A sample list of programs that aired during its first few months of operation included The Prairie Farm Report, Market Journal, Downunder Horsemanship TV, Monty Roberts Backstage Pass, The Parelli Program, John Lyons, Motorz, James Cluer’s Wine Route, and programming from FEI. A sample of current day programming on the channel, as of June 2022, includes Sunup TV, World Of Horse Breeds TV, Great Western Guest Ranches, Jonathan Field, Agweek TV, The Jet Set, Mad Dog & Merrill Midwest Grill’n, Cook Like A. Champion, Cris Cox Horsemanship, Today’s Homeowner Television, and programming from Global Champions Tour. The Prairie Farm Report, an Ag-Com Productions' series remains on the air since the channel's launch.

References

External links Official website

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with The Rural Channel

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what The Rural Channel claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to The Rural Channel before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about The Rural Channel ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of The Rural Channel

In research: The Rural Channel appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses The Rural Channel in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: The Rural Channel is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Agricultural television stations, Canadian television station stubs, English-language television stations in Canada, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for The Rural Channel outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study The Rural Channel in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what The Rural Channel means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain The Rural Channel out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is The Rural Channel in simple terms?

Why does The Rural Channel matter?

Because it connects several science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study The Rural Channel?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on The Rural Channel.