WMRN Rate Card No. 18 (WMRN-2026-058) is an advertising and rate-card accession associated with WMRN sales, station branding, and sponsor-facing promotion, preserved within the Promotional Ephemera Collection. Undated, the item documents how WMRN presented its station identity, facilities, and community-service message to advertisers.

The rate card shows the WMRN Marion, Ohio brand, station building, broadcast towers, and the slogan “The Quality Sound of Community Service.” As a business document, it links the station’s visual identity to its commercial and civic role in Marion.

Historical Significance

Rate cards document how local radio stations described their audiences, facilities, and advertising value to businesses and sponsors.

This example preserves WMRN’s station imagery and sales language, showing how the station combined technical credibility, local presence, and community-service branding in its promotional material.

Exhibit Label

WMRN Rate Card No. 18. Date unknown. Advertising / Rate Card. This item is preserved as part of the WMRN Radio History Archive.

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Radio Station WMRN to Add FM Broadcasts Clipping (WMRN-2026-057) is a newspaper-clipping accession associated with WMRN’s expansion into FM broadcasting, preserved within the WMRN-FM Collection. Dated May 5, 1953, the clipping documents Marion radio station WMRN’s plans to add FM service.

The article reports on WMRN’s FM broadcasting plans and discusses the transmitting tower and technical service connected with the expansion. It places WMRN-FM within the station’s broader mid-century development from AM local service into an expanded broadcast operation.

Historical Significance

This clipping documents a major technical expansion in WMRN’s history: the move into FM broadcasting during the early 1950s.

The article helps connect WMRN-FM’s launch to the station’s facilities, transmission infrastructure, and public explanation of FM service for Marion-area listeners.

Exhibit Label

Radio Station WMRN to Add FM Broadcasts Clipping. May 5, 1953. Newspaper Clipping. This item is preserved as part of the WMRN Radio History Archive.

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WMRN Construction and Site-Purchase Newspaper Clippings (WMRN-2026-055) is a grouped newspaper-clipping accession associated with the founding and build-out of WMRN in Marion, Ohio, preserved within the Founding of WMRN Collection. Dated 1940, the clippings document construction planning, the North Main Street transmitter/site purchase, staffing plans, regulatory progress, and the Marion Broadcasting Co.’s local-service mission.

The group brings together related launch-era newspaper coverage that names WMRN and Marion Broadcasting Co. and describes the practical work of turning Marion’s new radio station from an approved project into an operating broadcast facility.

Objects Included

• WMRN-2026-055.1 – Work to start on radio station soon clipping.
• WMRN-2026-055.2 – Marion Broadcasting Station site-purchase clipping.
• WMRN-2026-055.3 – Continuation clipping describing radio station work to be started.

Historical Significance

These clippings document the founding period of WMRN, including the station’s physical construction, local ownership, and preparations for regular service in Marion, Ohio.

Together, the articles preserve the administrative and community context behind WMRN’s arrival: site acquisition, regulatory approval, news-service planning, and the local-service ambitions that shaped the station’s earliest public identity.

Exhibit Label

WMRN Construction and Site-Purchase Newspaper Clippings. 1940. Newspaper Clippings. This grouped accession is preserved as part of the WMRN Radio History Archive.

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