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Stealing Radio Tubes
Airdate: Tuesday - March 31, 1970

WOR Show
Original Airing

audio

First Spoken Line After Theme Ends
Hey, did you see this little cartoon. . .
Show Description
Straws in the wind: Lichte (sp?) cartoon Human cannonballs have midair collision Strikes Having a computer fix a ticket Talks about the OPC conference broadcast on previous Saturday. Asks the 'reporters' to send in their reviews from the school papers. Talks about the editing of the show. Didn't take out the good parts. Confesses crime commited in his youth. He builds a radio by stealing the tubes from radios in local electronnics stores.

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Commercials (Up to date) (All times approximate)
Time Sponsor Notes
• Shep - Live Appearance Princeton - April 3rd 8:00pm Alexander Hall
Music (Up to date) (All times approximate)
Time Music Title Notes
• Basin Street Parade
Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth
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Rating
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Record: 970 / ID: 19700331W0970
Airdate History ' - Original' date is earliest known broadcast)
Date Title  
March 31, 1970
Recno: 970		 Stealing Radio Tubes Original Airing
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Database Record Status
Database ID #: 19700331W0970Sponsors up to date: Yes
Record Created: 07-04-2004 Sources up to date: Yes
Last Update: None
Station ID up to date: No
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Music up to date: Yes Instruments up to date: No
Description up to date: Yes    
Known Recordees
Bruce Clark
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Source: Jim Clavin

1) "This Friday" - Princeton Show -sets show in the week of March 30th 2) Shep mentions it's middle of week - Tues Wed. Thurs. - Wed and Thurs would be too late to send for tickets and he would have said 'tomorrow night' rather than 'this Friday' 3) Mentions postal strike is over - Strike was settled on Wed. March 25th. 4) Mentions the broadcast of the OPC conference last Saturday night. That would date the conference rerun as March 28th

 
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1 Known copies from various Sources and Lists (Up to date)
Recordee 1 Shortened Theme: 55 seconds
2 Audibly Dated: By recordee or other
3 Modified Theme: Theme added by Gary Hines
4 Syndicated Intro: Intro broadcast as part of Synd Shows
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Source Name Information

Bruce Clark


Running Time: 44:22

Recordee:
2 - Bruce Clark
Inventory Name: 1970 03 31_W0970_002 Stealing Radio Tubes.mp3
Source filename: Audio Disk
Source description: Stealing Radio Tubes
Station: WOR

 

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