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Gunfire at KXTV, nobody hurt
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Woah what a scary time for Tegna staff in Sacramento. We shall find out what motive this is at some point.
This sort of thing is nothing new. 40 years ago we had an incident at my station where several bullets were fired through the front windows, including an office where I had been sitting just a few minutes earlier. No one was hurt.
Even then there were people who were mad at the “liberal media.”
At night we always kept the blinds closed to prevent any shooters from directly targeting individuals.
Even then there were people who were mad at the “liberal media.”
At night we always kept the blinds closed to prevent any shooters from directly targeting individuals.
I'll just point out that at this moment, there is no known suspect nor motive.
Here's 10's own coverage:
www.abc10.com
Here's 10's own coverage:
ABC10 station struck by gunfire Friday afternoon
Shots were fired from outside the building into the lobby. Nobody was hurt.
www.abc10.com
Luckily, the gunman didn't try to get inside the building. Which is what happened at KOOL-TV in Phoenix back in 1982.
Bill Close Hostage Crisis : KOOL News 10 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Bill Close Hostage Crisis : KOOL News 10 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
The days of a friendly receptionist being the first person you see walking into a TV station are long gone.
Now you will see a very serious security guard, and that is only if they remotely unlock the outside door to let you in the lobby area. After checking your drivers license and ascertaining why you are there, they will page the person(s) you are meeting. Then you will be escorted through a second locked door.
Other entrances will often have a “man trap” setup. Some single doors only open from the inside.
60 years ago, at my first radio station in Quito, there was just one person, the DJ, there at the 2 ½ hour lunch break. During that time, a group of masked extremists affiliated with Cuba kicked in the second floor office of the station, beat and tied our staff member, and spent about 10 minutes making a declaration of "freedom for the people".
40 years ago, while working on a project at the Catholic Church's stations in Lima, a bomb was set off on the ground floor of a 12 story building. Fortunately, it did not rupture any columns and, after our rooftop generator kicked in, we only lost about a minute on the air.
In the 80's in El Salvador, a station I also did work for was invaded with the goal of issuing a "call to arms" by the Cuban-backed rebels. The announcer was shot in the stomach. He recovered, and almost 20 years later, was my morning talent on KLQV in San Diego.
Of course, the worst of these was at WQBA (where I later did work) in 1976 PD and commentato Emilio Milian had his car explode from a bomb, attributed to radical Cubans in Miami who he had criticized.
The worst goes back to 1949 in Quito, Ecuador where Radio Quito broadcast a famous dramatic story.
It was an incident far more sinister than the panics that followed the 1938 broadcast in America when Orson Welles had first dramatised H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds on radio.
On the fateful night of February 12’th, writers for Associated Press and Reuters reported back to the US and Britain: «The mob attacked and burned the building of the newspaper, El Comercio, which housed the radio station and killed fifteen persons and injured 15 others.»
The War of the Worlds in Ecuador | Historyradio.org
historyradio.org
Well, here's a sign of changing priorities at the FCC. A radio station owner actually received a 'Notice of Violation' (no fine of course) for....are you ready...for failure to announce the legal ID. Will these notices become a regular thing now?
radioinsight.com
FCC Report 9/14: No Legal ID Leads To Notice Of Violation For WMVX
License Cancellations Salem State University has surrendered the license of 91.7 WMWM Salem MA. The station has been silent since February due to a malfunctioning transmitter. Pines Broadcasting has requested the cancellation of 1430 KHBM/98.9 K255AM Monticello and 860 KWRF/92.5 K223BM Warren...
radioinsight.com
Here is ABC News response to the shooting at KXTV Sacramento. Note so far Tegna spokesperson said we are cooperating with Sacramento Police in the investigation.
Sacramento man arrested in shooting at ABC10 news station, police say
A Sacramento man suspected of shooting into the ABC10 television station on Friday has been arrested, police said.
www.kcra.com
Apparently a person of interest is detained. This is a preliminary report.
Sounds like the security surrounding most Federal buildings nowadays after the bomb that destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
When I did an internship at Phoenix's Channel 10 in 1987, I was given a key to the door of the station's newsroom (where I worked out of). It was a passcode style key that you hurriedly put in, paused, and then hurriedly pulled out when you opened the door. And yes, by that time, the station had a security guard on duty at the front of the building to prevent what happened to Bill Close some years earlier from happening again.
The last time an incident like that happened was in the 1980’s when KNBC staff was held hostage while they were doing a newscast. This incident caused every TV Network, and local TV Stations to put strict security measures industry wide specifically at their offices.
Jeeez. What cities are stations like those operating out of? Camden and Detroit?
I remember when most cable company lobbies went from having casual, friendly, business-like interiors to putting their attendants behind shatter-proof glass with "drop your converter in the steel drawer and slide it under the bar" tier security precautions. But I figured that was just because of their constant price hikes and refusals to refund parents when their teenagers ordered $149.95 pay-per-view concerts without permission.
There's been an arrest. No motive disclosed. His first court appearance will be Tuesday (9/23):
www.abc10.com
Suspect in ABC10 building shooting arrested by FBI after being released from jail | UPDATE
The man accused of firing a gun into ABC10's Sacramento offices was arrested by the FBI Saturday night, hours after he was released from Sacramento County Jail.
www.abc10.com
Found the shooter's X account by searching the text of one of his X posts quoted in the article:There's been an arrest. No motive disclosed. His first court appearance will be Tuesday (9/23):
Suspect in ABC10 building shooting arrested by FBI after being released from jail | UPDATE
The man accused of firing a gun into ABC10's Sacramento offices was arrested by the FBI Saturday night, hours after he was released from Sacramento County Jail.
His profile photo isn't the image of anyone I would have envisioned doing a drive-by.
If this is the case and this will be a factor in the FBI part of the investigation. But its a crazy turn of events that the person of interest used to be a lobbyist in Downtown Sacramento as least what Tegna is reporting so far on the background on the accused in the link.
WOLO here in Columbia SC recently set up shop, with their news studios, in a nondescript building that was formerly used by WZRB (whose transmitter is on the same property). They've got that place secured like Fort Knox, with a chain-link fence with barbed wire (!) and a security gate, with no identifying information on the building. But then again it's in kind of a sketchy neighborhood which is not safe after dark, they have staff coming and going, and several vehicles that are parked there.Jeeez. What cities are stations like those operating out of? Camden and Detroit?
I remember when most cable company lobbies went from having casual, friendly, business-like interiors to putting their attendants behind shatter-proof glass with "drop your converter in the steel drawer and slide it under the bar" tier security precautions. But I figured that was just because of their constant price hikes and refusals to refund parents when their teenagers ordered $149.95 pay-per-view concerts without permission.
Schochastic terrorism.