Ahead of this year’s race, KNOM rebroadcasted its coverage of the first-ever Iditarod Sled Dog Race in 1973. It took champion Dick Wilmarth 20 days to make it from Anchorage to Nome. Soon after re-airing, his daughter, Rebecca, reached out to KNOM to ask more about the broadcast—it was her first time listening to it, and hoped to preserve the memory for her children and grandchildren. After his extraordinary win, Dick took his $12,000 prize pot …
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