RADIO FUN!

This week a local radio talk show got side
ways with a caller! Here is the official report from an OFFICIAL TV stations web site!

January 19, 2006KNOXVILLE (WATE) -- A caller to Knoxville's NewsTalk 100 WNOX sent the station into lockdown mode Thursday morning when he made an on air threat to shoot an anchor. The caller, upset by a comment made by news anchor Dave Foulk when hereferred to an elderly man as a Q-tip, threatened to get a gun and shoot Foulk.That forced the station into lockdown. "You want to come over here and ransack my place, call in the cops, arrest me, you know? Is that what'sgoing to happen?" the caller asked after his threat. While he later apologized, morning host Hallerin Hill explained to the caller on air why the station was taking the threat seriously. "Post 9/11, post Columbine, post any number of events in the United Statesof America, any business and organization takes very seriously anybody who calls them and uses such phrases like 'I'll kill you' or 'I'll put a bullet in you,'" Hill said. WNOX decided not to let employees talk to 6 News on camera but Dave Foulksaid on the air this incident definitely change the way he and his family goabout their business for a while.

HERE is where it gets to be FUN! Another local talk station (truth is there are two of them but they run the same programming) came up some thoughts about their security!


Southern Roots RadioWVLZ / WKCETop Ten Ways We're Different from WNOX-From our home office in Vonore and with apologies to David Letterman-

10. It's rare when we go a day without a threat from the Chamber-I mean-listeners.
9. WNOX has a panic room with high tech surveillance equipment. We have a pop-up camper with a Polaroid One Step.
8. When WNOX gets a threat, they notify their security team who immediately turns on their computer controlled electronic state of the art security system. When we get a threat, we slide a straight chair under the doorknob.
7. Their security guard: "The Terminator". Our security guard: "Barney Fife".
6. Before any lockdown, we send out for fried chicken.
5. They frisk all visitors to the building. Us: Kelvin waves over cars asking to be frisked.
4. During lockdown at WNOX, George Korda is safely secured in the WNOX compound. We pretend nobody's home when Korda knocks on the door.
3. WNOX is warm and fuzzy. Southern Roots Radio? Who's gonna mess with a station who has Mike Holloway AND Marshal Andy.
2. They have at least half a dozen highly trained guard dogs. Us: Robert Bratton.
1. If there is a threat, instead of a Lockdown, we Lock and Load.