Station Employees Attacked
Staffers at KBTX in College Station, Texas were assaulted last night by a man who fled before being apprehended, reports the station. The man, identified as Jason Bewley of nearby Bryan, reportedly did considerable damage to the station, which is owned by Gray, as well.
Reports KBTX:
No one was injured, but Bewley allegedly broke the side mirrors on two vehicles. He then allegedly threw a cinder block at the windshield of a KBTX live van and the station’s back door window, breaking both.
Bewley then fled on bicycle and remains at large.
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Michael Malone is content director at B+C and Multichannel News. He joined B+C in 2005 and has covered network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television, including writing the "Local News Close-Up" market profiles. He also hosted the podcasts "Busted Pilot" and "Series Business." His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The L.A. Times, The Boston Globe and New York magazine.