Television

When asteroids attack...

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There's been some chuckling around town, especially among TV news folks, about Channel 9 getting caught with its graphics out of synch when the news broke in San Bruno last week. I guess somebody forgot to tell the graphics department that the asteroid story was killed. "When you cut the staff at Channel 9, this is the result," says one former newshound.


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