HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – KNDI radio, a multilingual station that has served Hawaii’s immigrant communities for 66 years, has gone dark on the AM dial after being forced to vacate its transmitter tower, leaving hosts and listeners scrambling to reconnect.
The station had been broadcasting from a tower in Kalihi, and says it still had three years remaining on its lease when it was told to vacate by Dec. 31 of last year, citing safety concerns.
The land under the tower is owned by the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, which has not described the specific safety concerns…