MENANDS — The North Pearl Street studios of the local NBC affiliate WNYT were evacuated Sunday morning after receiving a bomb threat.

The assignment editor in the newsroom received a call around 10:45 a.m. Sunday by someone making what they described as a general threat to blow something up, according to the station's general manager.

"The building was evacuated for a short time this morning," said Steve Baboulis. "They made a general blanket statement about with everything happening in the media and then a general threat of blowing something up."

The twitter feed from the station posted this around 11:15 a.m. Sunday:

"A bomb threat was called into our newsroom Sunday morning. Our studios have been evacuated. Police are investigating."

Baboulis said less than a dozen people were in the building at the time of the threat.

Menands police and Albany County Sheriff's deputies responded. A K-9 was sent into the building to sniff for explosives. The building was cleared, and employees went back in around noon.

The call into the station comes on the heels of numerous acts of terrorism in the last week, including pipe bombs sent to the nation's former highest ranking Democratic officials to the horrific murder of 11 in a synagogue in Pittsburgh Saturday.