{"id":323612,"date":"2026-06-05T05:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/323612\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T05:06:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:06:07","slug":"lubbock-mourning-ag-broadcaster-jim-stewart-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/323612\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock mourning ag broadcaster Jim Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Jim Stewart, an agriculture broadcaster whose voice was familiar across West Texas for decades, has died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Stewart was an ag director at KFYO Radio for more than two decades until 2003. In 2005, he joined KRFE where he hosted an ag program until 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In his own words, he led a blessed life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, worked for the Lubbock Police Department and worked in news.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Stewart interviewed sitting presidents and featured Texas Ag Commissioner Sid Miller frequently on his show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">His family posted today that he died peacefully at home in Lubbock this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Jim Stewart was 85 years old.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Jim Stewart, an agriculture broadcaster whose voice was familiar across West Texas for decades,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-323612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}