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Van Dyke remained the station's news anchor for 28 years. [9] At the time of his retirement in 1983, he had the longest tenure of any news anchor in the United States, having made 2,700 newscasts on radio and 6,600 newscasts on TV. [10] In 1955, Van Dyke was the chairman of the national Radio and Television News Director's Association.
Trevor Wilkinson (14 May 1923 – 6 June 2008) [3] was born in Blackpool and left school at 14 to start an engineering apprenticeship at a local garage. [4]In 1946, he purchased an old wheelwright's workshop in Beverley Grove, Blackpool, to start an engineering business that he named Trevcar Motors.
During his studies at Iowa State, he was employed as a part time photographer and reporter at the KRNT radio and television station in Des Moines. [3] [9] [10] He then joined the Associated Press, serving in Kentucky, Japan and South Africa before being assigned to Lebanon as chief Middle Eastern correspondent for next two and a half years ...
Terry Anderson, a US journalist and Iowa State University graduate, was held hostage in Lebanon nearly seven years, from 1985 to 1991. He dies at 76.
Mark Pearson died June 2, 2012, at a farm in rural Madison County, Iowa, the victim of an apparent heart attack. [2] He was 54 years old at the time of his death. In July 2012, Iowa Public television chose Mark Pearson's son, Mike Pearson, manager of the family farm and himself a reporter for Iowa Public Radio Station WOI-AM as the new host of ...
Peter Robert Wheeler (29 February 1944 – 11 June 2009) was a chemical engineer from Sheffield, Yorkshire, UK, who owned the Blackpool-based TVR sports car company for 23 years. Wheeler made his fortune supplying specialist equipment to the North Sea oil industry. After owning a TVR, he ended up buying the company in 1981.
Charles Dolan, a titan of the early cable industry who owned Cablevision, launched HBO and AMC Network and later branched out into iconic New York venues and sports teams, has died. He was 98.
WSUI (910 AM) is a public radio station in Iowa City, Iowa. It is owned by Iowa Public Radio, Inc. and is a member of Iowa Public Radio's news network. Its signal serves most of eastern Iowa. WSUI is one of two National Public Radio member stations in the region, along with 90.9 KUNI in Cedar Falls. WSUI's sister station is classical music ...