Mort Crim

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Mort Crim (born July 31, 1935) is an American author and former broadcast journalist. Crim joined Channel 4 (WWJ-TV, soon thereafter to be renamed WDIV-TV) in Detroit in 1978. Crim stayed with the station 19 years before retiring from anchoring TV newscasts in 1997. Previously, he served as an anchor at WHAS-TV in Louisville (1969-1972), KYW-TV in Philadelphia (1972-1977) and WBBM-TV in Chicago (1977-1978). Crim was considered to be a top candidate by former ABC News president Roone Arledge to be a co-anchor for ABC's World News Tonight newscast in 1978. In 1984, he hosted a technology program on PBS, New Tech Times. Crim is also the founder of a Detroit-area integrated marketing agency, Mort Crim Communications, Inc., which has since operated under new ownership. Crim served as a spokesman for Majic Window Company in Wixom, Michigan, and for several years was featured in television commercials for that company. Crim anchored the American Information Network (ABC) program News Around The...

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