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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Two television stations have pulled a commercial for an aquarium in Newport saying the ad looks too much like a real news report about shark sightings in the Ohio River.
The commercial shows a fictional television reporter being knocked into the river, supposedly by a shark. It was made to promote a new shark exhibit at the Newport Aquarium, across the river from Cincinnati.
Television stations WLKY in Louisville and WTVQ in Lexington both pulled the commercial during the past two weeks.
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