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Sports Riots
Airdate: September 1973

WOR Show

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(NOTE ABOUT TIME REFERENCES: Since there are many different copies of shows out there from different sources, all time references are from the beginning of one single recorded copy, since various copies, depending on when the recordee started recording, had news at the beginning or shortened themes. The times would vary from copy to copy.)

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends

Forgive me for biting off your ear. . .

Show Description

Has it occurred to you that Howard Cosell is the W.C. Fields of sports! Shep tells about the time he was in Glasgow and riots broke out at the football stadium. Then one time when he was in India listening to a cricket game, a riot breaks out.

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 14:11	This is WOR New York, by George we're an RKO General station and we'll give you a seven picture deal any time you care to call. . .

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 14:21	Dubonnet Wine
• 15:25	Cheshire Academy
• 16:52	Ballantine Beer
• 38:16	Varig Airlines
• 39:42	Alexis Lichine Beau-Jolais Wine

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
• 02:16	When The Saints Go Marching In

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
• 11:17	Ed Scaterday
• 02:49	Herb Squire
• 05:31	Jerry Lambert

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

Kazoo
Echo Chamber

Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)

This Show

		Date	Title
		September 1973	Sports Riots

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"Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory?
Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty." - Jean Shepherd - 1975