Bob Fisher is a life-long north-central Iowan, growing up in Mason City. Bob is a 1990 graduate of Mason City High School, where he was a three-time All-State musician. After high school, Bob attended the University of Iowa, where he studied music education...but it's also where he got his first taste of radio at student-run KRUI-FM in Iowa City. Bob spent one season broadcasting University of Iowa women's basketball and baseball, with his first play-by-play chore being former Hawkeye coach C. Vivian Stringer's 500th career coaching victory.

Bob came back to Mason City in the fall of 1994, where he started working part-time for KRIB-AM and KLSS-FM radio. He left KRIB-KLSS in April 1995 to become the News and Sports Director at KDEC AM-FM in Decorah, but was asked to come back three months later to become a full-time announcer and assistant news director. Fisher rebuilt a dormant sports department at the radio station, highlighted by coverage of Clear Lake High School sports on AM-1490 KRIB. In February 2000, Bob added the duties of News Director, and transformed the news department as well into north-central Iowa's most successful radio news operation. Bob now oversees the news department for all five of Three Eagles Communications radio stations in Mason City (KGLO-AM, KRIB-AM, KLSS-FM, KIAI-FM, KYTC-FM)

Bob is a past-president and a past board member of the Iowa Broadcast News Association, and is a past board member and past-president of the Iowa Sportscasters Association. Bob has won several IBNA awards in the small-market radio category in the last six years, and has overseen the only small-market radio station in Iowa to place in the top three in the "Overall Excellence" category in each of the last six years.


2004 IBNA News Awards
Best Sportscast --- 3rd Place
Overall Excellence --- 2nd Place


2005 IBNA News Awards
Sports Play-by-Play --- Clear Lake Basketball --- 1st Place
Best Newscast --- 3rd Place
Best Sportscast --- 2nd Place
Spot News Coverage --- Evelyn Miller Found --- honorable mention
Overall Excellence --- 3rd Place


2006 IBNA News Awards
Best Newscast --- 1st Place
Overall Excellence --- 2nd Place
Best Play-by-Play --- 3rd Place --- Clear Lake Football
Best Sportscast --- 3rd Place


2007 IBNA Awards

Best Sportscast --- 1st place
Overall Excellence --- 2nd place
Best Newscast --- 2nd place
In-Depth/Series --- 2nd place ("Countdown to the Caucus" series)
Sports Play-by-Play --- honorable mention ("Clear Lake Lions Football")


2008 IBNA Awards
Flood/Tornado Excellence in Reporting --- 1st place
Flood/Tornado Spot News Coverage --- 1st place
Best Sportscast --- 2nd place
In-Depth/Series --- 2nd place ("40 Years Ago: Charles City Tornado)
Overall Excellence --- 3rd place



2009 IBNA Awards (awarded on May 1st, 2010, at the Cedar Rapids Marriott)
Best Sportscast --- 1st place
Spot News Coverage --- 1st place ("NIACC Drops Football")
Public Affairs --- 1st place ("Ask the Mayor")
Overall Excellence --- 2nd place


Feel free to contact Bob via e-mail at rfisher@masoncity.threeeagles.com .