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Sid & Friends In The Morning

David Paterson | Former Governor | 05-04-26

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Comedy, Sports, News

4.2827 Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2026

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Former Governor David Paterson joins the morning show to remember the life & times of legendary Yankees play-by-play radio voice John Sterling, who passed away this morning at the age of 87. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:10.1

By connecting retailers, health plans, and payment processors, ProHealthConnect creates one powerful unified network.

0:16.3

They empower independent grocers and pharmacies to accept health benefit cards without changing how they do business.

0:22.1

With over 10,000 locations nationwide, helping more than 1.3 million people access the care and nutrition they need.

0:29.1

Go to prohealthconnect.com.

0:31.6

Must remember. Do not forget.

0:38.4

Remind me to bring photo ID.

0:41.4

Reminder, set.

0:43.2

Babe, can you make sure I don't forget my photo ID when I vote?

0:47.2

All right, love.

0:49.6

However you remember, you'll need photo ID to vote in the elections in England on the 7th of May.

0:55.8

Find out more at electoral commission.org.uket-u-u-k slash voter ID.

1:00.9

Joining us right now, former governor, he can talk about a whole bunch of stuff.

1:05.8

He's actually a Metband.

1:06.9

I got to a million Met Games with Governor David Patterson, but I guess he's got memories of

1:11.7

John Sterling. Mr. Governor, how are you? Well, you know, Sid, John Sterling's history, I don't think

1:18.2

it's really known to a lot of people. Back in the 60s, when AM radio was mostly music, the two

1:25.3

stations that would compete with WABC and WMC. and W.A.B.C. had Bruce Marl and

1:32.0

they had Herb Oscar Anderson and all these other people, and they just dwarfed WMCA.

1:38.2

So what the WMCA tried to do is to become a talk station. And what they needed to complete the roster of, you know, of their personalities is they didn't

1:52.9

have a sports person.

1:54.5

So they took the music DJ, Jack Spector, and tried to make him a talk radio host.

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