WMRN Personnel Profile

Will Beard

Air Personality

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The archive preserves a 1996 WMRN-AM Morning Magazine segment from the Marion County Fair featuring personality Will Beard. In the surviving excerpt, Beard performs a playful Marv Albert impression while introducing Joe Suarez, documenting WMRN-AM’s live fair coverage and informal on-air style.

Career Assignments

1996

Air Personality — WMRN-AM 1490

Department
Programming
Affiliation
Direct WMRN staff
Workplace
WMRN-AM remote broadcast, Marion County Fair
Verification
Confirmed

Morning Magazine audio documents Beard on WMRN-AM during the 1996 Marion County Fair. The exact broadcast date within 1996 is unknown.

Source: WMRN-2026-082 — Morning Magazine, 1996 Marion County Fair.

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

Sources & Documentation

WMRN-2026-082 — Will Beard as “Marv Albert” Introduces Joe Suarez — Morning Magazine, 1996 Marion County Fair.
Illustrative cassette tape and case for Will Beard as Marv Albert Introduces Joe Suarez (WMRN-2026-082), with the same muted WMRN-blue background as accession 047. Cassette artwork does not establish the recording's original storage medium.WMRN-2026-082Will Beard as “Marv Albert” Introduces Joe Suarez — Morning Magazine, 1996 Marion County Fair