Save Your WMRN History
Preserving WMRN’s Broadcast Legacy
Save Your WMRN History
Before it disappears, let us know it exists.
WMRN history is still sitting in closets, basements, attics, filing cabinets, photo albums, cassette boxes, former employees’ homes, and family collections.
The WMRN Radio History Archive is working to identify, document, digitize, and preserve surviving material connected to WMRN.
You do not have to give up the original.
If you have something connected to WMRN, please contact the Archive before throwing it away or disposing of it. In many cases, photographs, documents, recordings, and memorabilia can be digitally preserved while the originals remain with their owners.
Collection leads
What Are We Looking For?
- Photographs and negatives
- Airchecks and off-air recordings
- Cassettes, reel-to-reel tapes, CDs, MiniDiscs, DATs, transcription discs, records, and other audio
- Station IDs, jingles, promos, commercials, liners, and production elements
- Program schedules and logs
- Newsroom material
- Scripts and copy
- Internal memos and correspondence
- Employee photographs and staff material
- Promotional items
- Hats, shirts, jackets, pins, mugs, signs, banners, and other memorabilia
- Microphones, studio equipment, engineering equipment, and station furniture
- Remote-broadcast material
- Buckeye Chuck material
- Peanut Push material
- WMRN-AM material
- WMRN-FM material
- FM-107 / Country 107 / Hot Country 107 / Buckeye Country 107 / Buckeye Country 94.3 material
- Marion Broadcasting Company material
- Personal stories and memories from former employees and listeners
- Anything else with a documented WMRN connection
If you’re unsure whether something matters, contact us anyway. Small or ordinary-looking items can sometimes answer important historical questions.
Owner-led preservation
You Don’t Have to Donate It to Preserve It.
Depending on the item, the Archive may be able to document or preserve a copy while the original remains with its owner.
- Scan photographs and documents
- Digitize audio recordings
- Photograph three-dimensional artifacts
- Record identifying information and provenance
- Create a digital reference copy
- Interview the owner about the object’s history
- Return borrowed material after documentation
Permanent donation may be appropriate in some cases, but it is not required simply to help preserve the historical record.
Before it is gone
Don’t Throw WMRN History Away.
Cleaning out a house?
Going through a former employee’s belongings?
Found an old tape with WMRN written on it?
Not sure what an old photograph shows?
Please contact the Archive before disposing of it.
Something that appears insignificant today may be the only surviving record of a person, program, studio, event, or era of WMRN history.
Former WMRN employees & families
Material Kept for Years May Still Matter.
If you or someone in your family worked at WMRN, material that has been kept for years may have historical value even if it was never intended to be a “collectible.”
That can include personal photographs, airchecks, station paperwork, awards, staff directories, promotional material, employee clothing, notes and scripts, home recordings, stories, and memories.
Please contact the Archive even if you are not ready to donate or loan anything. A conversation, a photograph, or a few details about an item can help preserve important context.
A simple conversation
What Happens After I Contact the Archive?
- 1Tell us what you have.
- 2Send photographs or basic information if possible.
- 3The Archive will determine the best way to document or preserve it.
- 4We will discuss whether the original stays with you, is temporarily loaned for documentation, or is offered for permanent donation.