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Veteran TV journalist Paul Ryan to host America’s Heartland, the weekly public television show that will celebrate the miracles of American agriculture
Sacramento, California
August 4, 2005

Paul Ryan, a veteran, Emmy-winning broadcast journalist with more than 35 years of television experience, has been selected to host America’s Heartland. The much-anticipated weekly public television show will celebrate the miracles of American agriculture, as well as the proud farm and ranch families who help make it possible.

As host of America’s Heartland, Ryan will contribute a wealth of broadcast television experience, journalistic integrity and know-how to the new series, according to Mike Sanford, executive producer of the ground-breaking series at KVIE TV in Sacramento, Calif. America’s Heartland will debut on the public television airwaves this fall.

“Paul’s professional integrity, his enduring commitment to the highest journalistic standards and his love for the land make him a perfect fit to host America’s Heartland,” Sanford said. “On top of it all, Paul is an amazing storyteller. He will take America’s Heartland viewers for weekly treks down our nation’s country roads, across its fields and through its green pastures in pursuit of the people, places and products that make American agriculture the world’s best.”

Most recently, Ryan served as host of the popular travel series, Experience America.  Produced in 2001, the half-hour series is still widely telecast on PBS stations across the United States. Ryan said he eagerly anticipates continuing down the road of success as host of America’s Heartland.

“I’m excited. This is going to be a real adventure,” Ryan said. “It’s great to be able to work in television and produce programs like this that are so meaningful to all Americans. Our stories will take consumers beyond the grocery store shelves and produce racks, all the way back to the wonderful families who work the fields and farms. They have incredible real stories to tell, and I am honored to help them share those stories with America.”

In his early years, Ryan lived in the small farming town of Wyoming, Ill., and moved with his family to California in the mid 1950s.  He attended San Francisco State University where he majored in television and radio production.

The new America’s Heartland host has served in reporting and anchoring jobs at WBBM/CBS in Chicago and KRON/NBC, San Francisco. Ryan was also the host of PM Northwest; a top-rated nightly half-hour show on KOMO/ABC in Seattle, and the face of Rendezvous, a popular travel series on the Discovery Channel. In addition, he anchored Travel News Now and Holiday USA, two long-running series on the Travel Channel.

In the early 1980s, Ryan joined News Travel Network in San Francisco, where he became senior reporter/writer for a company that produced and syndicated daily consumer travel reports for more than 75 local newscasts across the United States. His duties took him to places as diverse as Japan, Hawaii, Alaska, Ireland, Portugal, Thailand and Australia. Among Ryan’s awards are seven Emmys. He proudly served four years in the U.S. Marine Corps in its aviation division.

As host of America’s Heartland, Ryan will profile the people, places and products of U.S. agriculture. The magazine-style, half-hour program will focus on our national love for the land, our fascination with food and the bedrock American values of family, hard work and independence that make our agricultural system the finest in the world.

America’s Heartland is produced with the flagship support of Monsanto Company and the American Farm Bureau Federation, and through additional support from contributors, including American Soybean Association, National Corn Growers Association, National Cotton Council, United Soybean Board and U.S. Grains Council.

KVIE TV news release

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