in the heyday of independent station broadcasts? It seems like I've heard the number 14, but that could have been a dream. @Ancient Hawkeye, you got anything on this? @Suterman?
The most I can recall personally hearing for sure in a given year was probably 5 . Zabel, Gonder, Clausen, Frosty, Brooksie. There may have been another Iowa City announcer in the 70s, but that may be another dream. I think I listened to a Mason City announcer as a squirt in my really early radioside days of '61-63, but the MC station could have had a feed. Surely there was someone from the Quad Cities, or maybe someone from KRNT or places like Shenandoah, Muscatine, Ottumwa or Dubuque.
Back in the 80s and 90s, I used to try to sample Brooksie and Frosty in the first half, the Big Shoe when it got a little more serious and Z when it looked like it might get memorable at the end- '87 Ohio State or '81 Nebraska/Michigan kind of memorable, for example.
Elk's Broadcasting History thread got the old brain to churning on the subject...
The most I can recall personally hearing for sure in a given year was probably 5 . Zabel, Gonder, Clausen, Frosty, Brooksie. There may have been another Iowa City announcer in the 70s, but that may be another dream. I think I listened to a Mason City announcer as a squirt in my really early radioside days of '61-63, but the MC station could have had a feed. Surely there was someone from the Quad Cities, or maybe someone from KRNT or places like Shenandoah, Muscatine, Ottumwa or Dubuque.
Back in the 80s and 90s, I used to try to sample Brooksie and Frosty in the first half, the Big Shoe when it got a little more serious and Z when it looked like it might get memorable at the end- '87 Ohio State or '81 Nebraska/Michigan kind of memorable, for example.
Elk's Broadcasting History thread got the old brain to churning on the subject...
