Donald Robert Segal

Donald Robert "Bob" Segal, former publisher of The Brownsville Herald and longtime voice of The Herald's Don Pedro, died Tuesday in Orange County, Calif., after a long struggle with Alzheimer's disease.
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Segal was also former president and chief executive officer of Freedom Communications Inc., which owns The Herald, Mid-Valley Town-Crier in Weslaco, The Monitor in McAllen and Valley Morning Star in Harlingen, from 1979 to 1992.His career with Freedom began in 1945 as a reporter for The Orange County Register.He served in various capacities throughout his five decades with the company, including editor of the Appeal-Democrat in Marysville, Calif., executive editor of the Texas Rio Grande Valley Newspaper Group, and publisher of The Gaston Gazette in Gastonia, N.C.

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Segal came to Brownsville in 1950-51, shortly after Freedom Newspapers bought The Herald, said Doug Hardie, whose family owns the corporation.
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Segal ran the news division of all three Rio Grande Valley papers before becoming publisher of The Herald."He was a great guy.He had a great sense of humor.
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Hardie added that Segal "really loved the Valley and understood how the economics of the Valley worked."
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Robert M. Duffey Jr. served on the Commission in the 1960s when Segal was its chairman.
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"(Segal) was important to that era when Brownsville was growing from a small community to a city," Duffey said.
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Segal is also credited with the company's rapid growth during the 1980s.He was instrumental in moving the company into broadcast with the acquisition of five of the company's eight television stations.

IRVINE, Calif. - Feb. 11, 2003 - Donald Robert (D.R.) Segal, former president and chief executive officer of Freedom Communications, Inc., died at 4 a.m. PST Tuesday at age 82.