Life After Laura

Hurricane Laura is long gone but the clean up is just beginning.

KPLC is doing the news from a temp studio after the station’s tower fell on their building and crashed into the studio.

Crews are already working to remove the broken tower.

“So within twenty hours of the hurricane hitting we already had crews mobilized coming here,” said KPLC General Manager John Ware. “Today the heavy equipment arrives, three cranes. The tower crew is on sight. They’ll start lifting the tower out of our building, deconstructing it and moving it out of our way so that we can start operating safely again within the building.”

He added that it will be quite sometime before the Anchors will be back in the studio. “We won’t be in the studio for quite some time,” Ware said. “That’s gonna be a complete remodel, we’ll have to gut it and do some structural work there. But there are other parts of the building we’ll be able to broadcast from.”

The station is still not back on the air with newscasts and is relying on digital platforms to inform viewers. “This is the first step in being able to get back to on television,” Ware said. “Our broadcast towers are fine, we just need to be able to get (the signal) out of our building so that we can re-establish a signal and start getting back to broadcasting on television in addition to our digital platforms.”

H/T KPLC

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