# I ❤️ WMRN Promotional Button

- Link: https://wmrnhistory.com/accession/wmrn-2026-049/
- Published: 2026-09-29T17:03:03-04:00
- Author: Brendon Hamblin

## Document

## Identification & Description

### Title

I ❤️ WMRN Promotional Button

### Description

![I Love WMRN promotional button, WMRN-2026-049](https://i0.wp.com/wmrnhistory.com/
wp-content/uploads/2026/06/IMG_8938.jpg?fit=1920%2C2560&ssl=1)

 I Love WMRN Promotional Button. Date unknown. Promotional button / pinback button.
WMRN-2026-049.

I ♥ WMRN Promotional Button (WMRN-2026-049) is a promotional button associated with
WMRN-AM / WMRN-FM, preserved within the WMRN Promotional Ephemera Collection. Dated
unknown, the item contributes to the documentary record of WMRN station branding,
listener engagement, and community-facing promotional material in Marion, Ohio.

The round white pinback button features a red heart graphic and red and black WMRN
lettering. As a listener-facing giveaway or station identity item, it reflects how
WMRN extended its brand beyond broadcasts into public appearances, contests, remote
broadcasts, station events, and other community interactions.

### Historical Significance

Small promotional artifacts such as buttons, stickers, and pins help preserve the
visual language local radio stations used to build audience recognition. This button
documents a compact, direct form of WMRN station identity: a message meant to be
worn, shared, and seen in the community rather than heard only over the air.

As part of the archive's growing ephemera collection, the artifact helps connect
WMRN's broadcast history to the everyday objects that carried station loyalty into
Marion's public life.

### Exhibit Label

I ♥ WMRN Promotional Button. Date unknown. Promotional Button / Pinback Button. 
This item is preserved as part of the WMRN Radio History Archive.

### Accession Number

WMRN-2026-049

### Object Type

[Promotional Object](https://wmrnhistory.com/archive/?taxquery%5B0%5D%5Bcompare%5D=IN&taxquery%5B0%5D%5Btaxonomy%5D=tnc_tax_2741&taxquery%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D%5B0%5D=239)

### Date

Unknown

### Format / Genre

[Button / Pinback Button](https://wmrnhistory.com/archive/?taxquery%5B0%5D%5Bcompare%5D=IN&taxquery%5B0%5D%5Btaxonomy%5D=tnc_tax_2816&taxquery%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D%5B0%5D=354)

## Content and Context

### Stations / Brands

[WMRN-AM 1490](https://wmrnhistory.com/archive/?taxquery%5B0%5D%5Bcompare%5D=IN&taxquery%5B0%5D%5Btaxonomy%5D=tnc_tax_2792&taxquery%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D%5B0%5D=431)
| [WMRN-FM 106.9](https://wmrnhistory.com/archive/?taxquery%5B0%5D%5Bcompare%5D=IN&taxquery%5B0%5D%5Btaxonomy%5D=tnc_tax_2792&taxquery%5B0%5D%5Bterms%5D%5B0%5D=432)

### Archive Collection(s)

WMRN Promotional Ephemera Collection

### Keywords

Ephemera

## Rights and Access

### Access / Use Restrictions

Processed

## Digital Preservation / Media

### Digital Format

Button / Pinback Button

## Attachments