MIAMI — Hurricane Irma knocked South Florida’s only public radio station off the air Sunday afternoon.
WLRN tweeted that it was no longer broadcasting at 1:22 p.m.
Editorial director Alicia Zuckerman said that the storm damaged the station’s transmitter, and that it was too dangerous for workers to venture outside and fix it.
Engineers are doing what they can indoors, she said, and restored the station’s online streaming service after it also got knocked out.
“It’d be nicer to be on the air right now, but if you saw the conditions we are under then you would be pleased with the response,” Zuckerman told The Post.
Most commercial radio stations in Miami are simulcasting local TV newscasts.
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