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Welcome to the online home of the Archives of Iowa Broadcasting, located at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa.
IN TRIBUTE
Walter Cronkite (1916-2009)
Legendary CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite died of cerebrovascular disease and cancer on July 17, 2009.
In addition to being a Midwestern native, Cronkite had ties to Iowa broadcasting. In 1949, he was a one-man radio bureau based in Washington, D.C. for KMBC/Kansas City and a number of other stations--including WMT/Cedar Rapids.
Click here to listen to a Cronkite broadcast for WMT from 1949.
From Cronkite's autobiography, "A Reporter's Life" (Page 158)--high praise for WMT's news operation.
"As far as the daily news coverage to my clients went, it turned out that the news editor at only one station had any idea how to use a Washington bureau. With a Washington correspondent to answer their queries, these stations could have customized their news reports to great advantage, but despite my urging, only Jim Borman at WMT in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, had the concept, knowledge or interest to do so."
Cronkite maintained a close personal relationship with WMT's William B. Quarton for nearly a half century; Cronkite wrote the forward for Quarton's 2005 autobiography.
Walter Cronkite was the keynote speaker at the WMT 35th anniversary banquet in 1957 in Cedar Rapids.
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