{"id":293,"date":"2008-10-13T04:32:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T23:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keenerpodcast.com\/?page_id=293"},"modified":"2014-07-03T12:01:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:01:27","slug":"air-checks","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/?page_id=293","title":{"rendered":"Air Checks"},"content":{"rendered":"

WKNR Air Checks<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Keener sound was fresh, tight, energetic and unlike anything else on the air in Detroit during the mid-60s. While there were other great stations and great announcers in the market, no other broadcaster had Keener’s “total station sound”. Here are some samples of how WKNR sounded during its short reign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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From Bob Green Productions<\/a>
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Dave Prince – WKMH 4\/62<\/a> 2.6MB
\nThe Keener Philosophy<\/a> 3.4MB
\nKeener’s 1st Birthday<\/a> 2.9MB
\nMotown Monday<\/a> 6.8MB
\nBeatles in Detroit<\/a> 8.1MB
\nNews Headlines<\/a> 559KB
\nMort Crowley Quits 1964<\/a> .8MB
\nGary Stevens, 1964<\/a> 5.7MB
\nBob Green,\u00a0 1964<\/a> 2.8MB
\nWKNR Production 1965-1968<\/a> 5.3MB
\nBob Green 1965<\/a> 6.8MB
\nScott Regen 2\/67<\/a> 4.2MB
\nBob Green 1966<\/a> 2.1MB
\nJingle Party 9\/66<\/a> 4.9MB
\nDick Purtan 01\/67<\/a> 2.9MB
\nBob Green 02\/67<\/a> 2.3MB
\nBob Green, 02\/67 pt 2<\/a> 3.1MB
\nJ. Michael Wilson 9\/16\/66<\/a> 3.4MB
\nTed Clark 7\/67 <\/a>2.1MB
\nEdgewater Park Spot<\/a> 489KB
\nBill Garcia 11\/70<\/a> 2.3MB
\nStereo Island Sales Promotion<\/a> 2.5MB
\nKeener Exports<\/a> 2.3MB
\nALSAC Radiothon 2\/71<\/a> 5.1MB
\nDan Henderson & Lilly Tomlin 1970<\/a> 1.8MB
\nNEW <\/strong>Bob Green – 1970<\/a>
\n9.5MB
\nNEW<\/strong> Scott Regen –
\n1970<\/a> 4.9MB
\nContact News<\/strong>
\nBob Neil 1965<\/a> 643KB
\nEd Mullen 01\/67<\/a> 1.8MB
\nJohn Maher 1965<\/a> 2.7MB
\nGeorge Hunter 10\/25\/65<\/a> 437KB<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

From Art Vuolo – Vuolo Video<\/a>
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Mort Crowley 1964<\/a> 276KB
\nGary Stevens 1964<\/a> 690KB
\nJerry Goodwin 1964<\/a> 169KB
\nBob Green 1964<\/a> 457KB
\nJ. Michael Wilson 10\/20\/65<\/a> 396KB
\nSwingin’ Sweeney 1965<\/a> 86KB
\nDick Purtan 1965<\/a> 1.6MB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From Bill Hennes
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Paul Cannon 1965 <\/span><\/a>3.1MB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From Scott Westerman
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Bob Green 7\/10\/64<\/a> 3.2MB
\nBill Phillips 7\/11\/64<\/a> 3.6MB
\nChuckBennett 71<\/a> 1.7MB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From Earl & Pam Clark
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Jim Jeffries 5\/31\/65<\/a> 2.7MB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From Pat St. John
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Pat St. John 12\/71<\/a> 1.2MB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From Jim Heddle
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WKNR News – Hendrix Death<\/a> 1.2MB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From Frank Hartge
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Pat St. John’s Final Show<\/a> 1.2MB
\nWeekly Sign-off<\/a> 499KB
\nJim Tate<\/a> 09\/70 5.7MB
\nDan Henderson<\/a> 9\/70 4.7MB
\nScott Regen 67<\/a> 9.1MB
\nJim Tate & Robin Stone 71<\/a> 2.1MB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From Tim Shy
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John McRae – WKNR’s Final Moments 4\/25\/72<\/a> 1.7MB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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From Jim Feliciano
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Paul Cannon 11\/26\/66<\/a>10MB
\nBob Green 7\/10\/64<\/a> 3.9MB
\nRobin Seymour 11\/3\/64<\/a> 2.1MB
\nGary Stevens 9\/3\/64<\/a> 2.2MB
\nJerry Goodwin 11\/3\/64<\/a>
\n1.1MB
\nJ. Michael Wilson 11\/19\/66<\/a> 2.6MB
\nJ. Michael Wilson 5\/1\/67<\/a> 2.4 MB
\nRodney’s Winchester<\/a> 2.3MB
\nJ. Michael Wilson 1\/68<\/a> 15MB
\nPat St. John 10\/19\/70<\/a> 3.9MB
\nMack Owens 2\/1\/71<\/a> 2.5MB
\nRon Sherwood 2\/22\/71<\/a> 2.8MB
\nDan Henderson 5\/17\/71<\/a>
\n1.5MB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
From Steve Schram
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Jerry Goodwin 02\/69 WKNR-FM<\/a> 1.8MB
\nBill Applegate 02\/69 FM News<\/a> 2.1MB
\nTony Randolph 02\/06\/69<\/a> 3.4MB
\nDave Mitchell (Stereo Island) 3\/71<\/a> 1.7MB
\nFrank Beckman (Stereo Island) 3\/71<\/a> 2.4MB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From Mike Rosenblum
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Lou Morton 10\/14\/64<\/a> 501KB
\nErik Smith 1965<\/a> 820KB
\nGeorge Hunter 6\/20\/66<\/a> 723KB
\nPhilip Nye 6\/20\/66<\/a> 334KB
\nJohn Maher 1\/23\/68<\/a> 2.6MB
\nPhilip Nye 2\/27\/68<\/a> 2.7MB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From Russ Gibb
\nMP3<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
John Miller on the Paul rumors
\n10\/69<\/a> 627KB
\nFred LeBour 10\/69<\/a> 685KB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From Peter Faulkner
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Dick Purtan 11\/25\/67<\/a> 6.5MB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From Jim Donahue
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Gary Stevens Last Show<\/a>
\n3\/65 5.5MB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From Jim Nuznoff
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WKNR-FM becomes WNIC <\/a>\u00a04\/72<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
From Airchexxs.com<\/a>
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Steve Robbins – January, 1967 <\/a>\u00a01\/67<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WKNR Air Checks The Keener sound was fresh, tight, energetic and unlike anything else on the air in Detroit during the mid-60s. While there were other great stations and great announcers in the market, no other broadcaster had Keener’s “total station sound”. Here are some samples of how WKNR sounded during its short reign. From Bob Green Productions MP3 Dave Prince – WKMH 4\/62 2.6MB The Keener Philosophy 3.4MB Keener’s 1st Birthday 2.9MB Motown Monday 6.8MB Beatles in Detroit 8.1MB News Headlines 559KB Mort Crowley Quits 1964 .8MB Gary Stevens, 1964 5.7MB Bob Green,\u00a0 1964 2.8MB WKNR Production 1965-1968 5.3MB…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-293","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/293","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=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/293\/revisions\/1687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keener13.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}