Van smashes into studio during 10pm news
Don Day December 24th, 2007
Talk about breaking news. A van crashed into the streetside studio of WLS/Chicago during the 10pm news last night. While you couldn’t see the impact on camera - you could certainly hear it.
UPDATE: For reasons I don’t understand, ABC put in a DMCA takedown notice on the video previously embedded here. So I searched for another version… here it is:
Witnesses and WLS’ GM says the “accident” may have been intentional.
7 Comments Add your own
1. Jordan | December 24th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Kinda related, but this was on Digg and they (diggers) love the new ABC sites..especially the video player.
2. Don Day | December 24th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
It’s official. Diggers know everything. Ron Paul will be the next president, big boxes stores are evil, and the new Wii game is cool!
I didn’t link to the abc7chicago.com version of this story because I couldn’t figure out how.
3. Barney Lerten | December 25th, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Have they both pulled it down? The YouTube version is gone.
4. discreet_chaos | December 25th, 2007 at 8:59 pm
I followed the link through to the CNN version last night, then I called my wife into the room to watch it. Thanks LR for first bringing it to my attention, but I really love the description, now that it’s one of Yahoo’s featured stories; “An anchor jumps and shouts “ho” when a minivan crashes into the station during the news.”
Happy Christmas, everyone and in celebration of he season, I’ve linked my name to a Youtube from John Lennon.
5. Paul | December 26th, 2007 at 10:51 am
What I love best is that before they even finish the segment they’re doing, they break in and start reporting on the accident. Now that’s a news team.
6. Steve | December 26th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
“…it appears to be a Mazda…” Man, what a PRO!
Also, consider investing in some steel or concrete pylons to put in front of your precious street-side studio windows. Anyone want to bet the glass in any of the network Times Square studios is bullet proof?
7. Dave Williams | December 26th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Man, I knew the anchor was Canadian!
As soon as I heard Ravi Baichwal’s pronounciation of “Mazda” … he tried to squelch it a bit more American, as Canadians pronounce it MAZZ-da … Americans MAHHZ-da.
From the video floating around, Baichwal did a pretty good job working around the mess …
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