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Anchor Break

February 12, 2009 10:53 AM

Television stations need to test anything and everything to win new viewers. Like training anchors in a little Three Stooges routine? Hey, whatever works.

Here is Chicago station WGN-TV’s effort to entertain the Web audience by showing what its anchors do during commercial breaks.

This has been a popular viral video for a month or so now and has logged more than 200,000 views.

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Robert Keil:

I've got too much time on my hands...

Posted by Robert Keil | February 12, 2009 2:25 PM

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