WMRI

Infobox Radio station
name = WMRI


city = Marion, Indiana
area = Muncie-Marion
slogan =
branding = "The Best Music Ever Made"
frequency = 860 kHz
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format = Nostalgia
power = 1,000 watts day
500 watts night
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class = B
facility_id = 6337
coordinates = coord|40|33|12.00|N|85|38|45.00|W|region:US_type:city
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owner = Mid-America Radio of Indiana, Inc.
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webcast = [http://wmri.com listen live]
website = [http://wmri.com wmri.com]
affiliations = Fox News Radio, Jones Radio Network

WMRI (860 AM) is a radio station broadcasting a Nostalgia format. Licensed to Marion, Indiana, USA, the station serves the Muncie-Marion area. The station is currently owned by Mid-America Radio of Indiana, Inc. and features programing from Fox News Radio and Jones Radio Network. [ cite web|url=http://www.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?call=WMRI |title=WMRI Facility Record |work=United States Federal Communications Commission, audio division ] [cite web|url=http://www1.arbitron.com/sip/displaySip.do?surveyID=SU08&band=fm&callLetter=WMRI|title=WMRI Station Information Profile|publisher=Arbitron]

History

The WMRI call letters were previously used on its FM station at 106.9 MHz (the present day WXXC.) Prior to adopting the current WMRI-AM, the station was known as WGOM (for "Giant of Music".inspired by locally-born James Dean's final movie "Giant")with a Top 40 format before automating in the late 1970s. Rich Coolman,Stan Weil and Dave Gross "The Mad Doctor"(now at WLDE in Ft. Wayne) were some of WGOM's on-air personalities. The WMRI calls were used originally at 860 AM in the 1950s and 60s before the call letter and format switch to WGOM in 1970. WGOM's Top 40 format competed with Muncie's WERK(then at 990 AM) and the former WHUT(now WGNR (AM) 1470 AM in Anderson throughout the 1970s.

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*AM station data|WMRI
Muncie-Marion Radio