VINTAGE BROADCASTS

Below you'll find a selection of "vintage" radio broadcasts gathered from the Archives collections.

From the 1970s, an extended musical jingle promoting the legendary AM 940 KIOA in Des Moines; "solid rock in Iowa"
Iowa City rocker KRNA-FM was well known for promotions tied to University of Iowa athletics. This legal ID bridge was used in the fall of 1982 as the Hawkeyes prepared to meet Michigan in football at Kinnick Stadium.
Excerpts from the final midday radio newscast on Waterloo's KXEL-AM by hall of fame broadcaster Grant Price, delivered in February 1959. Price left KXEL for a 13-year stint at WMT-AM/FM/TV.
This montage of jingles from the 1970s and 1980s from AM 940 KIOA/Des Moines will no doubt bring back memories. Note the seasonal variations for summer and holidays. Most of these are from the famous PAMS production studio.
The top-of-the-hour legal ID jingle used by one of Iowa's oldest stations, KFJB-AM in Marshalltown, during the early-to-mid 1980s.
A collection of two commercials for Tick Tock Grocery stores in eastern Iowa, recorded in the late 1950s.
A musical jingle for WMT-AM which premiered on the powerful Cedar Rapids station in 1959.
The 12:30 p.m. news on WHO-AM, Des Moines, was sponsored by decades by Standard Oil and anchored by broadcast news pioneer Jack Shelley. This recording is of the newscast closing theme, complete with sponsor credit.
The news of the German surrender in World War II was carried back to Iowans by WHO's Herb Plambeck, who reported on the story from Germany.
It had been 22 years in between bowl games for the University of Iowa football team, but the long drought ended when Hayden Fry's 1981 team shocked the Big Ten. This call by WHO-AM's Jim Zabel memorializes the end of the final game of the season, which secured the Rose Bowl berth for the Hawks.