The following blog posts were written by Clyde Lear between 2007 and 2009. He was a prolific blogger and wrote about all aspects of the company, the posts below deal with the history of the company. Clyde’s blog — and the rest of his posts — is adrift somewhere on the Learfield servers. This is our effort to preserve some of Clyde’s recollections. [Click here for Learfield related posts on smays.com]

• Brownfield Network-First Day – August 24, 2007
• Buell Baclesse – September 19, 2007
• Local Radio News – September 19, 2007
• My first ‘run’ at starting a radio network failed – September 24, 2007
• Writing a Business Plan – September 30, 2007
• Why Farm? – October 3, 2007
• Early Investors – October 9, 2007
• The Six Who Financed Learfield – October 11, 2007
• Affiliates – October 18, 2007
• Under the Streetlamp – October 23, 2007
• The First Office – October 31, 2007
• The Move to Centertown – November 26, 2007
• Sales Calls – November 29, 2007
• Jack Allen Creative Design -December 26, 2007
• Bob Priddy’s News Network – January 16, 2008
• Verni Brownfield – January 17, 2008
• NASRN – January 18, 2008
• Jim Lipsey -January 29, 2008
• Jeff Smith and Chuck Morris – February 18, 2008
• The Martin Agency – February 20, 2008
• Politics and Politicians – February 21, 2008
• Our first audience research – February 26, 2008
• The bank turns us down – March 9 2008
• The Dick McHargue Network – March 20, 2008
• Our first Account Executive – April 10, 2008
• Steve Curran – April 11, 2008
• Learfield Sports – April 14, 2008
• Daily Stand-Up Meetings – April 16, 2008
• Derry Leaves Learfield – April 22, 2008
• Line Costs -April 27, 2008
• Buy-Sell Agreement – May 1, 2008
• John Rooney – May 22, 2008
• Station Ownership – May 28, 2008
• Arbitron – June 16, 2008
• First Media Kit – June 26, 2008
• Kansas City Chiefs – July 22, 2008
• Big Comeback at Mizzou – July 23, 2008
• Bob Hyland – July 29, 2008
• Missouri Life Magazine – September 2, 2008
• The Chrysler Deal – September 10, 2008
• Too Big for My Britches – September 13, 2008
• The First Ten Years – September 20, 2008
• New York Times Story – September 23, 2008
• Norm Stewart – September 30,2008
• Lela Murphy resigns as shareholder – October 2, 2008
• Our “Learfield” Name – October 20, 2008
• Logos – October 22, 2008
• Financing Satellite Delivery – December 3, 2008
• GE to provide satellite delivery – December 8, 2008
• AdCom – December 12, 2008
• Greg Brown – January 12, 2009
• Roger Gardner – January 12, 2009
• Interview with Greg Brown & Roger Gardner – January 14, 2009
• Iowa State Cyclones – January 20, 2009
• OSU – January 22, 2009
• Derry Sells His Shares – January 24, 2009
• Texas A&M – February 3, 2009
• The Missourinet Poll – February 5, 2009
• Radio Iowa Launch – February 10, 2009
• WHO-Radio Iowa Planning (Dauphine Hotel) – February 10,2009
• Good Press for Learfield – February 13, 2009
• Iowa Hawkeyes – February 18,2009
• Central Methodist College – April 9, 2009
• Advisory Board – April 27, 2009
• McCarty Street – April 30, 2009
• Satellite Dish Move – May 6, 2009
• Steve Mays and KBOA – June 4, 2009
• New Tech Times (PBS) – Spring 1984