CBS Radio Evacuated In LA

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UPDATE 6am 9/26/12:  The package that caused the evacuation  turned out to be a promotional item from cable network BET.

The clocks were designed to publicize a new BET show hosted by former CNN newscaster T.J. Holmes. The name of the show -- the ironically named 'Don't Sleep'.

Original Posting...

Several L.A. radio studios were evacuated Tuesday after a beeping package was dropped off at a second-floor lobby of a Miracle Mile building, but the package was later found to be safe.

LATimes.com is reporting the Wilshire Boulevard building — which houses KNX-AM 1070, KFWB, 94.7 The Wave, K-Earth-FM 101 and other offices — was evacuated after the package was discovered Tuesday morning, authorities said. A Los Angeles Police Department bomb squad was called to the scene as news helicopters circled overhead.

The package was later deemed safe. The building was reopened by authorities about 10:45 a.m.

KNX-AM 1070 radio went off the air temporarily after the package was found.  Amd for a time, KNX switched to their sister-station KCBS in SF.

Receptionist Sasha Elycia said she heard a mysterious beeping about 10 minutes after she arrived at work at 8 a.m. Thinking it was a phone with a battery dying, she began looking around the lobby and found the box, sitting in an area where deliveries are usually kept.

"It was not a familiar sound," she said of the noise, which she described as a "tick-beeping."

Elycia took the package to a sound engineer, who said he didn't recognize the noise either. They called building security, who notified LAPD.

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