WMRN Personnel Profile

Karl L. Livensparger

Engineering Trainee / Technician

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WMRN Career

Karl L. Livensparger was a Marion high-school senior undergoing training at WMRN in May 1943 as a replacement for station engineer Joe Peters, who had been called for military service. The contemporaneous Broadcast Engineers' Journal names the trainee 'Karl Liven-sparger' across a line break and names Robert Morrison as WMRN's chief engineer. Independent Marion family history identifies the corresponding man as Karl Lewis Livensparger (1925–2011), later an Army Signal Corps engineer and telephone executive. The period of his WMRN engineering employment remains unknown beyond the documented wartime training.

Career Assignments

From 1943

Engineering Trainee / Technician — WMRN-AM 1490

Department
Engineering
Affiliation
Direct WMRN staff
Workplace
WMRN radio operation, Marion, Ohio
Verification
Confirmed

May 1943 contemporaneous engineering magazine says he was training as engineer Joe Peters' replacement.

Source: Broadcast Engineers' Journal, May 1943, Ohio News page 16, naming Karl Livensparger as WMRN engineering replacement trainee, https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Broadcast-Engineers-Journal/BEJ-1943-05.pdf ; Marion family history identifying Karl Lewis Livensparger, https://www.minerd.com/bio-krick,_johnwsherwood.htm

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

Sources & Documentation

Broadcast Engineers' Journal, May 1943, Ohio News page 16, naming Karl Livensparger as WMRN engineering replacement trainee, https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Broadcast-Engineers-Journal/BEJ-1943-05.pdf ; Marion family history identifying Karl Lewis Livensparger, https://www.minerd.com/bio-krick,_johnwsherwood.htm

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