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Last Summary Update: 12-19-2024

First Sportswriter
Airdate: Monday - December 31, 1973

WOR Show

audio

(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

Officer Read, this is a summary of a plot. . . .

Show Description

Shep talks about a book that was sent to him by a listener - "Sporting Anecdotes" from 1823 He spends the entire show reading passages from the book: Cupping on the Turf Bear-Baiting in Olden Times Portrait of a Jockey Female Pedestrianism Athletic Sports in America Major Topham Possibly others but the show was poorly recorded and is barely audible from 28min to 33min and then becomes inaudible at 38 minutes.

WOR ID

Time	Station ID (All times approximate)
• 14:55	This is WOR New York

Commercials (All times approximate)

Time	Sponsor	Notes
• 14:58	Madison Square Garden	World Festival of Magic and Occult
• 15:25	Your Father's Mustache
• 16:59	Pontiac

Music (All times approximate)

Time	Music Title	Notes
•	No Music Used

Engineers, Staff, and Guests in Booth

Time	Engineer, Staff or Guest
•	None Mentioned

Instruments and Special Effects Played During the Show

Instruments Played

None

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

This Show

		Date	Title
		December 31, 1973	First Sportswriter

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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