By Libya Herald reporters.
Tripoli, 16 October 2017:
Sirte Radio is due to resume broadcasting after it went off air fourteen months ago. Staff are currently conducting test transmissions before the station goes live again.
The broadcasting studios were among the first buildings to be seized by IS in February 2015 as it ousted Misratan forces from the town and began to assert its dominance. Thereafter the so-called Islamic State (IS) used the studios to broadcast IS propaganda.
Sirte Radio went off air briefly in June last year for an unknown reason but thereafter resumed broadcasting until August 2016, shortly before the complex was recaptured by Bunyan Marsous forces.
The station management said today that engineers were installing new equipment and planned to start test broadcasts within the next two days.
