KFAR (660 kHz), the dominant local talk radio station in Fairbanks, Alaska, is off the air after a fire last Thursday morning crippled its transmitter.
Bad weather has delayed the delivery of a replacement part, KFAR General Manager Perry Walley said.
The part is expected to arrive on Monday and Walley hopes to be transmitting by that evening, but it’s dead air until then, he said. “We are completely off the air and there is nothing we can do about it,” he said.
The station manager blamed a mechanical problem for the fire. The station’s transmitter sits in a small wooden structure.
KFAR, the oldest radio station in Fairbanks, has been on the air since 1939.
Source: Media Network, newsminer.com
