Des Moines Register
Iowa City and Cedar Rapids broadcaster, businessman and rail-service advocate Eliot Keller died Monday of complications from ALS. He was 62.
Keller was named to the Iowa Broadcasters Hall of Fame last summer following a career that began while he was a student at the University of Iowa.
Keller and partner Rob Norton put radio station KRNA on the air from Iowa City in 1974. “Many in the industry questioned their sanity and whether a stand-alone FM station in Iowa City would survive,” Des Moines broadcaster and lawyer George Davison wrote last summer.
“It did,” Davison wrote, “and what happened at KRNA-FM helped many in the business to recognize that a well-run, stand-alone FM could be profitable.” The operation eventually became KZIA in Cedar Rapids. More…