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Hosted by Carlene Hall Productions
Main Streets & Backroads
The people, places and stories along Iowa's main streets and backroads.
About the show
What you'll hear
Main Streets & Backroads is a conversation series local to SW Iowa — about the shop owners, farmers, artists, first responders and neighbors who keep our communities alive.
Each episode Carlene Hall Productions sits down with someone whose story deserves telling, from the town square to the gravel road ten miles out. It is unhurried, warm and genuinely curious — the kind of conversation you'd have on a front porch.
The perfect opportunity for a business owner to become known more personally, because people do business with people they know and trust.
Who's listening
- Small-town and rural listeners across Iowa and the Midwest
- Community-minded local business owners and their customers
- The customers you want to reach are watching your story at their convenience. It is not invasive, it is not an interruption to normal programming. This is on their time, when they choose!
- Shared across Facebook, where the show's audience is most active
Episodes
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Sponsorship Opportunities
Put your name beside a show your community trusts
Sponsoring Main Streets & Backroads is a genuine, personal endorsement — host-read, in Carlene's own voice, in front of listeners who tune in for the stories and stay for the people telling them.
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Tell us about your business or organization and we'll be in touch with the details.
Be a guest
Request an interview
Have a story that belongs on Main Streets & Backroads? Carlene reads every request personally.
Guests are recorded in person where possible, or remotely when distance makes that easier. Episodes typically run 30–45 minutes.
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