[BC] Last Stands

[Bill Croghan]

	Not a last stand, but to implement a format change a few years back
an AM station I was working at in Tucson started playing Twist and Shout
from Friday 6 PM until Monday 5 AM.  No explanation, nothing other than
required legal ID's, just continuous Twist and Shout.  We were all sworn to
secrecy.  When a listener called our sister FM station to try to find out
why, the part time jock on duty refused to tell with the comment "what can
you do when they've got a gun to your head."  Listener called police, they
activated SWAT and when the back door bell rang, the PD ended up spread
eagled to the wall with an M16 in his back and the station was rapidly
searched and cleared.  We had to tell the Police department what and why,
but still kept it secret from the public.   

Bill

Bill Croghan CPBE WB?KSW
Chief Engineer, 
KOMP/KXPT/KENO/KBAD
Lotus Broadcasting
Las Vegas, NV
Email to loteng (at) lvradio.com
Phone 702-315-3030
Fax      702-876-6685





>-----Original Message-----
>From: broadcast-bounces at radiolists.net [mailto:broadcast-
>bounces at radiolists.net] On Behalf Of Paul Smith W4KNX
>Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 9:49 AM
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>Subject: RE: [BC] Last Stands
>
>That was done in this area many years ago.  A guy barricaded himself in the
>Control Room and played Johnny Paycheck's "Take this job and shove" over
>and
>over again....  Probably was stunting, but the station changed formats the
>next day.  Made all the papers
>
>Paul Smith
>Sarasota, FL
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 9:47 AM
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>Subject: Re: [BC] Last Stands
>
>
>In a message dated 01/06/2006 09:05:37 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>ron_doto at msn.com writes:
>
>> It took station staff about an hour to figure out which circuit breaker
>to
>>  open to kill the board.  It made the Detroit papers.
>
>It *should* have only taken them a few *seconds* to patch-out the CR and
>run
>a show from Prod. Too bad they didn't know how to do that. (Or the station
>wasn't set-up to allow it. It should be.) They could have also just pulled
>the
>*main* breaker, too, and got him off-air in seconds. God forbid if
>something
>like that ever happened here, I'd have patched him out in seconds and
>started a
>"Technical Difficulties" loop. Call 911, and wait for the Police- then kick
>the
>door in and (hopefully) resume normal programming.
>
>What a send-off, tho.
>
>Willie...
>
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