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WLVI – News Promo – 2001 (The Most Dramatic Jim Cutler Promo Ever?)

November 30, 2020 The Chyron Kiddo Leave a comment

Taped just 2 months after 9/11. This ran on WLVI Ch 56 in Boston in November 2001

 

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