Iowa Radio: The Final Two Weeks
 
WHO-AM Newsradio 1040, based in Des Moines, covers most of Iowa.  The station's programming includes "Mickelson in the Morning," a morning (9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.) talk show hosted by Jan Mickelson, "The Mark and Gary Show," which is a farm program that runs for an hour and a half in midday, as well as such national programming as Rush Limbaugh.  For the two weeks prior to the Iowa Caucuses, Jan. 10-24, 2000, the station reported the following expenditures on political advertising:
Ad Buys on WHO-AM 1040, Jan. 10-24, 2000
Forbes 1, 2, 3, 4
$18,000
Bush >
$15,425
Gore >
$5,225
Keyes >
$2,030
Immigration Groups-Total
$16,000
   NPG
$9,000
   FAIR
$7,000
American Cancer Society >
$15,000
ISEA >
$9,000
Center for Ec. Development
$5,400
Iowa Corn Promotion Board >
(for 2 days)
$3,000