Recognition for Marvin McClanahan’s Retirement
February 11th, 2010
On February 5th Marvin McClanahan was recognized at the Kirksville Chamber Business After Hours for his 37 years as the most recognizable voice in morning radio. Marvin retired at the end of 2009. Here he is shown with his co-host Helen Adams as she hands him the newly acquired statue in recognition of his 1985 Country Music Award for Small Market Broadcast Personality of the Year. Marvin is the only Missouri announcer to ever receive this honor.
Marvin is a graduate of Kirksville Christian High School and Truman State University, and had also done a hitch with the Army during the Vietnam War. In the late 60s and early 70s, he started out at KLTI in Macon, and joined the KIRX staff in 1972, where he was primarily the morning man until 1995 when he was moved to KTUF shortly after that station’s merger with KIRX-KRXL.
