Thursday's thunderstorm delivered a knock-out punch to Waitt Radio stations.
KKAR Program Director Neil Nelkin said it appears a lightning strike at the studios at 50th & Capitol caused substantial damage - and knocked several stations completely off the air just before 4 p.m.
"We sustained substantial damage to a lot of our internal audio routing and processing equipment," Nelkin said. "Two of our station consoles were knocked out, all of our phones failed, and we lost a number of our studio-transmitter links so we were unable to get audio from the studio location to the transmitter sites of a number of the stations in the cluster."
Faced with trying to deliver important information to listeners during the severe weather, Nelkin said station engineers worked quickly to patch audio from KETV (Cox Channel 9) directly to some of the stations, while resuming programming on others.
KKAR (1290 AM) was able to restore audio to its transmitter at 5:10 p.m. However, KOZN (1620 AM) was still off the air at 5:30 p.m.
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