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Derry Brownfield

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I am advised that Derry Brownfield has passed away of an apparent heart attack at the age of 79. Derry was Farm Director of KLIK in Jefferson City until 1973, when he, Clyde Lear and other business partners founded the Brownfield Network, a regional farm radio network. The parent company, Learfield Communications, also launched the MissouriNet and other properties. Derry eventually broke away to host his own syndicated program, the Derry Brownfield Show. He was quite a character, in some ways bigger than life, with an extraordinary gift for public speaking.
 
I first heard the news yesterday on his show on WWCR 12160 MHz. A woman was hosting the show, taking condolence calls from all across the country. Rest in peace Mr Brownfield. For the past few years, I used to periodically listen to Derry's show on WWCR. It was different, but entertaining and enlightening. Derry and his common sense show will be sorely missed, leaving us with all of those lousy loud mouthed single minded talk show cretins, both liberal and conservative. What will happen to Derry's show? Will it continue without him with another host?
 
I remember listening to Derry Brownfield do his farm reports each morning when I was about 13 years old. Our local radio station, KYRO in Potosi, was an affiliate of Learfield Communications and, thus, carried a few of the Brownfield Network's reports (mainly in the morning and during the noon hour) each day. KDMO in Carthage (where I worked at for about 18 months in the early 90's) was also an affiliate. A few years later, when I began working at KHAD/KDJR in DeSoto, we began carrying his talk show (but not his farm reports). Since I have been out of radio since 1997, I haven't kept up as much with the broadcast industry or its changes. So I was shocked to find the following story on the internet regarding Derry and his fallout with Clyde Lear (president of Learfield Communications)in 2008. It has mainly to do with Derry's harsh criticism of Monsanto, one of Learfield's biggest advertisers at the time.

http://www.alternet.org/story/84477...boot_after_exposing_monsanto's_'goon_squads'/
 
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