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306  googletag.pubads().setTargeting('cms-pcat', sanitize(split_tags('null')));
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374			--sidebar-text: var(--sc-text);
375			--sidebar-highlight: var(--sc-primary);
376			--sidebar-btn-text: var(--sc-content-bgd);
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402			body.single footer.site_width{ 
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406				margin-right:auto;
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413			a.floating-bgd-img { display: none; }
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428		<a class="header-logo sc-center-box" href="/">
429		<img src="https://media-cdn.socastsrm.com/wordpress/wp-content/blogs.dir/3759/files/2024/12/wpro-am.png" alt="News Talk WPRO" />
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442	<li class="home-icon">
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445	<li class="hasSubnav">
446		<a href='https://www.997wpro.com/shows' target="_self" class="nav-item-parent">Shows and Podcasts<span class='icon icon-right chevron'></span></a>
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448				<ul>
449									<li><a href='https://www.997wpro.com/shows/gene-valicenti' target="_self" class="nav-item-child">Gene Valicenti 6a-9a</a></li>
450									<li><a href='https://www.997wpro.com/shows/tara-granahan' target="_self" class="nav-item-child">Tara Granahan 9a-12p</a></li>
451									<li><a href='https://www.997wpro.com/shows/matt-allen' target="_self" class="nav-item-child">Matt Allen 12p-3p</a></li>
452									<li><a href='https://www.997wpro.com/shows/dan-yorke' target="_self" class="nav-item-child">Dan Yorke 3p-6p</a></li>
453									<li><a href='https://www.997wpro.com/shows/kevin-mc-sports-hour' target="_self" class="nav-item-child">Kevin McNamara 6p-7p</a></li>
454									<li><a href='https://www.997wpro.com/shows' target="_self" class="nav-item-child">All Shows</a></li>
455									<li><a href='https://www.997wpro.com/wpro-video-on-demand' target="_self" class="nav-item-child">WPRO Video On Demand</a></li>
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460		<a href='https://www.997wpro.com/patriots' target="_self" class="nav-item-parent">Patriots</a>
461			</li>
462	<li class="">
463		<a href='https://www.sweetdeals.com/providence/deals?utm_source=WPRO-AM&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_content=station_menu' target="_blank" class="nav-item-parent">Sweet Deals</a>
464			</li>
465	<li class="">
466		<a href='https://www.997wpro.com/contests' target="_self" class="nav-item-parent">Contests</a>
467			</li>
468	<li class="">
469		<a href='https://www.997wpro.com/advertising' target="_self" class="nav-item-parent">Advertising</a>
470			</li>
471</ul>
472	</div>
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1033
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1092		<div class="wpb_wrapper">
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1150
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1237				<li><a href='https://x.com/wpro' title='X' target='_blank' class='sc-center-box'><img alt='twitter' class='icon svg-loader' data-icon="xitter" /></a></li>
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1257	<li>
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1351<script data-category-consent="optanon-category-C0001" data-ot-ignore type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn-js.socastsrm.com/cdn_v18.6.0/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/js_composer/assets/js/dist/js_composer_front.min.js?ver=8.7.2" id="wpb_composer_front_js-js"></script>
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1352<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn-js.socastsrm.com/cdn_v18.6.0/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/socast-widgets/js/widgets/featureRotator.js?v=2014-07-29&amp;ver=6.8.2" id="socast_featureRotator_script-js"></script>
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1353<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdn-js.socastsrm.com/cdn_v18.6.0/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/socast-widgets/js/widgets/blogNews.js?ver=6.8.2" id="socastcms_blogNews_script-js"></script>
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1354<script></script>
1354<style>
1355.sc-sidebar .blogNewsWidget .text-sm.sc-item-detail { display:none !important; }
1356#minimalMenu { transition: all 300ms !important; }
1357</style><div id="fb-root"></div>
1358<script async defer crossorigin="anonymous" src="https://connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v23.0"></script>
1358	</body>
1359</html>

Line numbers count LF bytes from the start of the resource, as the search results do. Vendor segments are library code the classifier recognised; they are stored but not indexed. Bytes are shown as Latin1 characters, one per byte.