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A collection of short audio clips from broadcasting's history...we'll be adding more as time allows... For many, many more Central Iowa clips, visit www.desmoinesbroadcasting.com

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Most of the clips in this category are from WMT-TV's "Dr. Max Show", a children's TV icon for more than 20 years. For more about the show, read our article...

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WGN Radio, Chicago hourly time tone. A little esoteric...this is a clean version of the hourly time signal broadcast by Chicago's WGN for at least the last 35 years. This was generated in an audio editor, and isn't an aircheck.
THE WORD IS...KRNA...  In 1980, 93/KRNA Iowa City was having a new jingle package produced at JAM Creative Productions, Dallas. At the same time, the Hawkeye football program was undergoing a rebirth under legendary coach Hayden Fry. KRNA asked JAM to produce an "80's" version of the "Iowa Fight Song". The result was "Fight Song '80"...
file icon Singing EBS test 05/20/2009
THIS IS ONLY A TEST... Back in the old days, stations were required to use a full minute of air time every week for a test of the old Emergency Broadcast System. Several jingle companies decided to make that time entertaining. Here's one of them. BTW...back then, the FCC frowned on things like this. Today, I don't think they'd care, as long as nobody was naked... Frown
"TV Lite" was a locally produced talk/comedy/information/music program, broadcast weekdays on KCRA Sacramento in 1987. It didn't last long, but it was fun... Here's the show open from March 25, 1987.

NBC Radio's "The Big Show" was just that--an effort to keep big-time network radio alive. The show originated from the Center Theatre in New York's Radio City (with occasional broadcasts from Hollywood) and featured host Tallulah Bankhead with some of the biggest stars of the day. In this clip, from episode 9 on December 31, 1950,  musical director Meredith Willson presents the first performance of the fight song he wrote for his home-state University of Iowa. It's still our song...and yes, Iowa did lose to Ohio State, 83-21, in 1950... Cry

For the entire show, and all of the episodes of The Big Show known to exist, visit archive.org

Music used by WHO Des Moines for sports broadcasts, circa 1982. This was an aircheck from the end of an Iowa Hawkeyes football broadcast.
Another WHO Radio clip, from a jingle package produced by TM Productions.
Newscast open from 1977, using the "Part of Your Life" theme.
Alan answering a trivia question with the late and dearly missed Bob ("Uncle Bobby") Collins on WGN Radio, Chicago. Hard to believe that this was 28 years ago... 
 
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