WMRN-AM 1490
The AM station pathway for founding records, early studio materials, WMRN News, local programming, anniversaries, and Marion civic broadcasting.
Open hubCollection Hubs
Research Pathways These hubs gather related accessions, people, audio, photographs, and timeline context into focused research pathways. The FM pathway for simulcast history, beautiful music, country-format transitions, FM broadcasts, and later station branding. The FM country-branding pathway for apparel, promotional items, format identity, listener culture, and 1990s Marion radio. The Buckeye Chuck pathway connects annual Groundhog Day broadcasts, WMRN personalities, weather folklore, buttons, audio, and civic ritual. A focused pathway for Rod Serling related records, VE Day commentary, early writing and radio experience, and WMRN connections. The Terry Cole pathway for announcer identity, WMRN News, promos, weather coverage, Buckeye Chuck, civic affiliations, and station memory. The technical pathway for studios, control rooms, transmitter culture, microphones, equipment, construction, and station spaces. The material-culture pathway for buttons, apparel, handouts, stickers, postcards, rate cards, and everyday objects that carried WMRN into public life.Collection Hubs
WMRN-FM
Hot Country 107
Buckeye Chuck and Marion Radio Culture
Rod Serling at WMRN
Terry Cole Collection
Broadcast Equipment and Facilities
Promotional Ephemera