In 20 seasons, the award-winning host has been documenting the people, places, food and music that define the Lone Star State.
, including KXAS-TV on Sundays, the show has evolved into a career highlight for McAuliffe.
Produced in College Station, the show has collected numerous accolades, including a regional Edward R. Murrow Award, four Lone Star Emmy Awards, the Barbara Jordan Media Award and multiple Texas Association of Press Broadcasters awards., created by longtime travel journalist Bob Phillips. Country singer Gary P. Nunn opens the program with a hearty rendition of his “Taking Texas to the Country.”
McAuliffe, who is from Round Rock, makes no secret that Phillips is an inspiration. While a reporter at KBTX in College Station and inspired by Phillips, Charles Kuralt, Ron Stone and other travel journalists, he created aTexas Country Reporter“That’s crazy,” he said. “So I did it for a couple more years. And that idea just started brewing. So one day I went to my boss and I said, ‘Hey, you mind if I try to pull a Bob Phillips and do this on my own?’ And he said, ‘Go for it.
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