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Research Portal Use this page as the clean public doorway into the archive. It keeps the main navigation simple while connecting accession records, hubs, people, exhibits, audio, and contribution paths. Follow curated subject paths for WMRN-AM, WMRN-FM, Hot Country 107, people, equipment, and ephemera. Read narrative exhibits, including Buckeye Chuck and WMRN Peanut Push, from one exhibit index. Go directly to preserved audio, promos, interviews, airchecks, and station recordings. The AM station pathway for founding records, early studio materials, WMRN News, local programming, anniversaries, and Marion civic broadcasting. 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. Open the exhibit record and its related accessions, timeline anchors, people, and source material. Open the exhibit record and its related accessions, timeline anchors, people, and source material. Open the exhibit record and its related accessions, timeline anchors, people, and source material. Open the exhibit record and its related accessions, timeline anchors, people, and source material. Open the exhibit record and its related accessions, timeline anchors, people, and source material. Open the exhibit record and its related accessions, timeline anchors, people, and source material. View the full all-exhibits page, including Buckeye Chuck and WMRN Peanut Push.Start Research
8 collection hubs
7 public exhibits
OCR and transcripts on text/audio records
Primary Research Paths
Collection Hubs
All Exhibits
Broadcast Archive
Collection Hubs
WMRN-AM 1490
WMRN-FM
Hot Country 107
Buckeye Chuck and Marion Radio Culture
Rod Serling at WMRN
Terry Cole Collection
Broadcast Equipment and Facilities
Promotional Ephemera
People and Subjects
Era Guides
Narrative Exhibits
The First Broadcast: December 23, 1940
Rod Serling at WMRN
From Beautiful Music to Hot Country 107
Buckeye Chuck and Marion Radio Culture
WMRN Peanut Push
Buckeye Chuck