WMRI

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WMRI is a small market sized AM radio station located in Marion, Indiana broadcasting on 860 kHz. 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.

WMRI's current format is the Music of Your Life from Jones Radio Networks.

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