{"id":154,"date":"2008-10-13T02:09:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T20:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?page_id=154"},"modified":"2008-10-13T02:17:49","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T20:47:49","slug":"mort-crowley","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?page_id=154","title":{"rendered":"Mort Crowley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><font size=\"5\">Mort Crowley<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/images\/mortcrowley.gif\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"2\" src=\"..\/images\/mortcrowley_sm.gif\" align=\"left\" width=\"69\" height=\"110\"\/><\/a>Mort Crowley was WKNR&#8217;s first morning man. Mort was already a star when he came to Detroit, with stints at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlshistory.com\/\">WLS<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bossradioforever.com\/\">KHJ<\/a> behind him and St. Louis powerhouse <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stlradio.com\/history\/kmoxhist.html\">KMOX<\/a> ahead in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Mort&#8217;s tenure at Keener was brief and eventful. He anchored the stations rise from nowhere to the top of the ratings and generated a tremendous response to his listener call-in bits. His telephone shtick was so successful that it regularly jammed the Detroit exchanges, prompting the phone company to threaten to cut off WKNR&#8217;s telephone service. This arrogant wielding of monopoly power was too much for Mort and he said so on his program one Friday morning in a<br \/>\ntirade that ended up with is on-air resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Crowley went on to distinction in Denver and St. Louis before retiring from radio, a legend in his own time. He died in 1995.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/airchex\/MortCrowley63.mp3\">Mort Crowley on Keener 1963<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"..\/images\/aircheck.gif\" width=\"100\" height=\"10\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"..\/airchex\/MortCrowleyQuits.mp3\">Mort Crowley resigns on the air &#8211; 1964<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"..\/images\/aircheck.gif\" width=\"100\" height=\"10\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mort Crowley Mort Crowley was WKNR&#8217;s first morning man. Mort was already a star when he came to Detroit, with stints at WLS and KHJ behind him and St. Louis powerhouse KMOX ahead in the future. Mort&#8217;s tenure at Keener was brief and eventful. He anchored the stations rise from nowhere to the top of the ratings and generated a tremendous response to his listener call-in bits. His telephone shtick was so successful that it regularly jammed the Detroit exchanges, prompting the phone company to threaten to cut off WKNR&#8217;s telephone service. This arrogant wielding of monopoly power was too&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":151,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-154","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":161,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/154\/revisions\/161"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}