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Husband Andy Vance began his career at WRFD where Johnson started his.įollowing the sale of ABN to Clear Channel, the Johnson family maintained the Country Journal, but Johnson's weekend television program, AgriCountry, which aired on 11 television stations across Ohio, was cancelled. Hill began her career as an ABN intern under Johnson's mentoring. Lindsay Hill, associate farm director and co-founder of Buckeye Ag Radio Network "The Barn" (and wife of Vance) died in a two vehicle accident at the intersection of Ohio State Routes 235 and 41, just north of New Carlisle and west of North Hampton near Springfield, Ohio on Thursday morning May 19, 2011, while she was a new employee for AgDay, a television program produced by Farm Journal Magazine. In December 2010, Advance Broadcast and Communications ceased operations as mentioned on its website (now defunct and now redirects to ). In early 2007, Advance Broadcast & Communication Ltd, parent company of the Buckeye Ag Radio Network (aka: "the BARN") acquired the ABN, reintroduced Johnson's well-known preference for broadcasting "from the farm," and in early 2009, returned broadcast operations to Columbus. The size and scope of the ABN Radio network also grew, expanding to a footprint exceeding 72 radio stations in Ohio, Indiana, and West Virginia.įollowing Johnson's death in 2001, the Johnson family sold the ABN to Clear Channel Communications, who moved network operations from Columbus and merged the network and programming into its Lima, Ohio cluster. In 1992, he launched the magazine Ohio's Country Journal.

By the mid-1980s, the ABN became a satellite operation.Īdding the television program to his efforts in 1982, Johnson's fame grew from that of a well-respected agricultural journalist to a household name in Ohio. The network, by the late 1970s finally leased a land line loop to affiliates which also fed programming from the Ohio News Network and Sports Ohio Network (later ONN Sports). His unmistakable enthusiasm, passion for agriculture, and unique broadcast style won a faithful following, and the network grew. Johnson, a well-known farm broadcaster formerly of WRFD in Columbus, Ohio, launched the network with a small number of radio stations, and delivered programming over the telephone from his farm in Ostrander, Ohio. The Agri Broadcasting Network ( ABN) was founded in 1972 by the late Ed Johnson, President of Agri Communicators Inc., which included the Agri Broadcasting Network ( ABN Radio), Ohio's Country Journal, a monthly farm newspaper, and the television program AgriCountry.