WMRN Personnel Profile

Jim Rearden

Account Executive / Sports & Remote Broadcaster

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WMRN Career

Jim Rearden worked at WMRN as an advertising account executive in the early-to-mid 1960s and participated in live sports and remote broadcasts. A firsthand historical account by a listener whose family advertised on WMRN identifies Rearden as their account representative and as a broadcasting partner of play-by-play announcer Bob Miller during local basketball coverage in the 1964–1965 season. The same source reproduces a detailed transcript of Rearden hosting WMRN's sponsored live broadcast from the Richwood Fair on September 2, 1963, interviewing Vernon M. Thomas and introducing Madge Cooper Guthery's segment. Those are documented broadcast events, not complete employment dates.

Career Assignments

From 1963

Account Executive — WMRN-AM 1490

Department
Sales / Sports / Remote Broadcasting
Affiliation
Direct WMRN staff
Workplace
WMRN radio operation, Marion, Ohio
Verification
Confirmed

Original witness identifies Rearden as his family's WMRN advertising account executive.

Source: Vernon Thomas at the Richwood Fair: transcribed WMRN remote broadcast dated September 2, 1963, plus first-person introductory recollections about Jim Rearden's advertising and basketball coverage in 1964–1965. https://www.t2buck.com/fair.htm

The dates above document this role at those points in time; they do not establish continuous employment between them.

From 1963-09-02

Richwood Fair Remote Broadcast Host — WMRN-AM 1490

Department
Sales / Sports / Remote Broadcasting
Affiliation
Direct WMRN staff
Workplace
WMRN radio operation, Marion, Ohio
Verification
Confirmed

Named host of surviving written transcript of September 2, 1963 WMRN sponsored broadcast.

Source: Vernon Thomas at the Richwood Fair: transcribed WMRN remote broadcast dated September 2, 1963, plus first-person introductory recollections about Jim Rearden's advertising and basketball coverage in 1964–1965. https://www.t2buck.com/fair.htm

The dates above document this role at those points in time; they do not establish continuous employment between them.

From 1965

Basketball Broadcast Contributor — WMRN-AM 1490

Department
Sales / Sports / Remote Broadcasting
Affiliation
Direct WMRN staff
Workplace
WMRN radio operation, Marion, Ohio
Verification
Confirmed

Eyewitness recalls Rearden working alongside play-by-play broadcaster Bob Miller during 1964–1965 school basketball season.

Source: Vernon Thomas at the Richwood Fair: transcribed WMRN remote broadcast dated September 2, 1963, plus first-person introductory recollections about Jim Rearden's advertising and basketball coverage in 1964–1965. https://www.t2buck.com/fair.htm

The dates above document this role at those points in time; they do not establish continuous employment between them.

Sources & Documentation

Vernon Thomas at the Richwood Fair: transcribed WMRN remote broadcast dated September 2, 1963, plus first-person introductory recollections about Jim Rearden's advertising and basketball coverage in 1964–1965. https://www.t2buck.com/fair.htm

No published accession is currently linked to this personnel authority record.