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Christmas Night Drunk Newscaster

Broadcast Date: December 25, 1985

Speaker(s): John Birchard, Paul Reynolds

The date of this broadcast is known, but this recording qualifies not as a newscast, but as an attempted newscast. After 20 seconds of dead air, the talk show host, John Birchard, fills in until the newscaster arrives, and the newscaster, Paul Reynolds, is then shut off after just 40 seconds on-air. The creator / manager of this website knows the situation well -- he was once a newscaster at this particular radio station, WTIC, and did countless newscasts from this same broadcast booth. And he's sure this was the final broadcast for the announcer heard here.

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