From an article on radioinfo.com.au

Australian radio presenter Kirsty Meyer has told radioinfo.com.au what happened when the station she was working for was forced off the air following a military coup in Thailand in May.

Along with thousands of other small commercial stations in the country, Live 89.5FM has been silent ever since.

“As the news broke that the military had taken over the government and that curfews were being imposed, not just in Bangkok, but nationwide, there was definitely a shift in atmosphere,” she said.

“There were lots of phone calls and texts back and forth around the radio station, and it was just a guessing game as to whether we should just tone down the breakfast show, mentioning nothing about the coup and leave out the news, or not go on air at all.”

“Eventually, a decision was made, not to go on air. We thought at the time that it would just be a couple of days, but now, over a month later, the station is still off air and still making contact with the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) on a daily basis, receiving good news one day, bad news the next, it’s just a waiting game.”

In Phuket, five jocks from Live 89.5, including Meyer, have been on ‘extended holidays’ until normalcy returns, reports radioinfo.com.au.  At one point she thought that the station might go back on air:

“We briefly went back on air after the military lifted the curfew, but in less than 24 hours, the station was phoned by local officials and ordered to go back off air again, so we did. At this point, they can only speculate as to when the station will return to air, but it’s believed the situation will more than likely be resolved by mid-August.

“The effect it’s had on the radio station has prompted my resignation, and although it’s unfortunate that I’m leaving under these circumstances, I am extremely excited about returning to Australia, it feels like the right time.”

With no signs of the station getting back on air any time soon, Meyer told radioinfo that she has resigned and plans to return to Australia.

The crackdown on radio stations is ongoing. Concerned that a small core of unlicensed ‘rogue’ stations in the north were stirring political unrest, the military is tracking them down, and closing them.  But stations without a political agenda appear to be caught in the crossfire.

On June 18th, the country’s military raided the studios of four foreign-language radio stations in the province of Pattaya. They were forced off air and three of them were closed down after being found to be in breach of rules linked to the coup.

The navy and police teams were joined by officials from the Thai media regulator National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) for the raid, in which amplifiers and other broadcasting equipment were seized from each of the radio stations.

Read more at: https://www.radioinfo.com.au/news/all-systems-still-no-go-thailand