KHNL
Encyclopedia
KHNL is the NBC
-affiliated television station
for the state of Hawaii
that is licensed to Honolulu
. The station broadcasts a high definition
digital signal on UHF channel 35 (or PSIP virtual channel 13) from a transmitter in Palehua. KHNL is owned and operated by Raycom Media
, who also owns CBS
affiliate KGMB
and operates MyNetworkTV
affiliate KFVE
by virtue of a shared services agreement
with KFVE's owner MCG Capital Corporation. All three stations share studios on Waiakamilo Road in Honolulu.
As of March 2nd, 2011, KHNL is available in HD on DIRECTV
.
Syndicated
programming on KHNL includes Entertainment Tonight
, The Doctors
, Who Wants To Be a Millionaire and Judge Joe Brown.
on January 15, 2009, the three full-powered stations remained on their current digital channels using PSIP to display virtual channels for each station corresponding to their former analog channel numbers .
As of Wednesday, March 2, 2011 KHNL is now available in HD on DirecTV. (local channel 13) Leaving KFVE as the only local channel remaining in Hawaii not offered in HD by DirecTV.
. Owned by the Watumull Broadcasting Company and unaffiliated with a national network, they broadcasted English
and Japanese language
Independent
programming. New ownership started on January 15, 1966. In 1967, KTRG switched call letters to KIKU and moved to Puuhale Road while offering English programming from 1 to 5 P.M. as well as 10 to 11 with Japanese programming from 5 to 10. The English shows included old movies, westerns, and cartoons.
Mid-Pacific Television Associates bought the station on April 9, 1979. By this time, it ran English programming (like "Hour Magazine
" and "The John Davidson Show") from 7 A.M. until 7 P.M. with Japanese programming from 7 to 10 and back to English after 10 until their sign-off. In 1981, the station became a full-time English speaking general entertainment station running a blend of cartoons, sitcoms, westerns, movies, and for a brief time, a local newscast. Japanese programming moved to various UHF stations. In 1984, the call letters were changed again to the current KHNL and the station branded itself as the "News Alternative" and "Free Movie Channel" while also beginning to air University of Hawaii at Manoa
athletics.
of Seattle, KHNL contracted programming from the new Fox network to begin airing in April 1987. This included The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers, The Tracey Ullman Show
, and Married with Children. Also in 1986, they added translator station K21AG from Scala Broadcasting to rebroadcast KHNL on Maui. This was eventually divested to LeSea Broadcasting in July 1990. In June 1987, the station added K65BV from the Channel 13 Club of Kauai. In May 1989, KHBC-TV in Hilo became a full-time satellite of KHNL. In August 1990, KOGG began broadcasting on Maui as a satellite.
It was not until September 1993, after King Broadcasting was sold to the Providence Journal Company
, that KHNL adopted the brand name "FOX 13". On May 5 of that year, they entered into a local marketing agreement
(a.k.a. LMA) with KFVE which merged its operations into KHNL's facility. In January 1994, all University of Hawaii sports moved to KFVE where it remains today. In August, KHON-TV
announced it was dropping its affiliation with NBC to become the new Fox affiliate since its new owner, SF Broadcasting, was partly funded by the network. At first there was talk about NBC going with current ABC affiliate KITV
. However, after Argyle purchased that station in 1995, they decided to keep KITV with ABC instead. On January 1, 1996, KHNL switched its affiliation to NBC while Fox moved to KHON.
for a local news broadcast. When the Providence Journal Company merged with Belo
on February 28, 1997, the station struck a deal with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin
newspaper to share polling services.
On October 29, 1999, Belo sold KHNL and its LMA with KFVE to current owner Raycom Media along with KASA-TV
in Albuquerque, New Mexico
(which has since been sold to the LIN TV Corporation). Raycom acquired KFVE outright two months after the company completed its purchase of KHNL creating one of the very first official co-owned commercially-licensed duopolies
in the country. On May 11, 2002, KHBC added a digital signal on UHF channel 22. In 2003, KHNL got national exposure for having Conan O'Brien
's Triumph the Insult Comic Dog do the report at the station. Triumph was actually invited to the station after chatting with people auditioning for American Idol
in Hawaii.
) announced a planned shared services agreement (a.k.a. SSA) under which KGMB's operations including news coverage would be combined with KHNL and KFVE. The proposal would see KGMB moved from its studios on Kapiolani Boulevard in downtown Honolulu to the KHNL/KFVE facilities on Waiakamilo Road; it would also see KGMB fall under Raycom ownership, moving from channel 9 to channel 5, while KFVE would move from channels 5 to 9 and fall under MCG Capital's ownership. Citing "the economic reality... that this market cannot support five traditionally separated television stations, all with duplicated costs," and facing the risk of "the loss of one, or possibly two stations in Hawaii," Raycom President Paul McTear said the SSA would "preserve three stations that provide important and valuable local, national and international programming to viewers in Hawaii."
The plan, however, has met with criticism from organizations such as Media Council Hawaii which views the plan as a way to circumvent Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) rules preventing one company owning two of the top four stations in any market (The FCC only recognizes ownership of facility identifications
and not a station's call sign or other properties, and as such Raycom's ownership of both KHNL and KGMB, once it moved to Channel 5, would be allowed). The SSA took effect on October 26, 2009, at which point KHNL dropped its "NBC 8" branding in favor of simply its call letters (KGMB and KFVE, who swapped dial positions on that date, adopted similar branding approaches as well). An estimated 68 positions from a total of 198 from the three stations would be eliminated as part of the agreement.
.
On August 31, KHNL added a sports magazine and wrap-up show called Sports Sunday Hawaii. On June 1, 1999, the weeknight 6 o'clock show began began simulcasting on KCCN-AM
1420. They added "Chopper 8", the only television helicopter in the market
, on April 5, 2000. On April 1, 2002, their weekday morning program was reduced to 90 minutes. A news share agreement was established with KKBG
-FM 97.9, KLEO
-FM 106.1, KHLO-AM, and KKOA
-FM 107.7 on October 10. KIKU
began a partnership with KHNL airing nightly news updates from this station on February 3, 2003. October 18, 2004 saw the relaunch of prime time news on KFVE. On January 7, 2007 that station debuted a weeknight 6:30 newscast also produced by KHNL. December 3, 2007 saw the launch of a midday newscast on the station, this has since been dropped. On December 22, 2008, KHNL and KFVE became the first local stations in Hawaii to broadcast local newscasts in high definition.
The origins of the three stations sharing their resources was announced on August 18, 2009, when MCG Capital Corporation and Raycom Media (owner of KHNL and, at the time, KFVE) announced a shared services agreement
which would see Raycom merge the three stations' operations into the KHNL/KFVE studios on Waiakamilo Road in Honolulu (KGMB would vacate its studios on Kapiolani Boulevard). Though non-news programming would remain in place, the 3 stations' news operations would be combined under one banner. The arrangement would also see a channel swap, with KGMB moving from PSIP channel 9 to channel 5 and KFVE move from 5 to 9. KFVE's newscasts would remain in place
The shared services agreement resulted in the termination of all but four KHNL on-air staff and all of KHNL's morning show technicians when its newsroom merged with KGMB on October 26, 2009 when they began their simulcast. The two stations began to jointly produce and simulcast a weeknight 5 and 10 o'clock newscasts while KHNL moved their 6 P.M. show to 5:30. KGMB continues to have its own weeknight 6 o'clock newscast. The only times when they don't simulcast is during the 7AM hour when KHNL starts airing NBC's Today Show, 5:30PM when KGMB airs The CBS Evening News, and at 6PM when KHNL airs The NBC Nightly News. Weekday morning and weekend shows are simulcasted on the two but can be preempted on one station due to network obligations. The local news schedule on KFVE-TV remains unchanged. There is no weekday midday news on either station.
Hawaii's Severe Weather Team (Hawaii Weather Now)
Hawaii Traffic Now
Hawaii Sports Now
Hawaii News Now Reporters
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
-affiliated television station
Television station
A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...
for the state of Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
that is licensed to Honolulu
Honolulu, Hawaii
Honolulu is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii. Honolulu is the southernmost major U.S. city. Although the name "Honolulu" refers to the urban area on the southeastern shore of the island of Oahu, the city and county government are consolidated as the City and...
. The station broadcasts a high definition
High-definition television
High-definition television is video that has resolution substantially higher than that of traditional television systems . HDTV has one or two million pixels per frame, roughly five times that of SD...
digital signal on UHF channel 35 (or PSIP virtual channel 13) from a transmitter in Palehua. KHNL is owned and operated by Raycom Media
Raycom Media
- History :Although Raycom Media dates its birth to 1996, the core of the company was formed in 1992 when Atlanta native Bert Ellis formed Ellis Communications. He eventually controlled 13 television stations and two radio stations....
, who also owns CBS
CBS
CBS Broadcasting Inc. is a major US commercial broadcasting television network, which started as a radio network. The name is derived from the initials of the network's former name, Columbia Broadcasting System. The network is sometimes referred to as the "Eye Network" in reference to the shape of...
affiliate KGMB
KGMB
KGMB is the CBS-affiliated television station for the state of Hawaii that is licensed to Honolulu. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 23 from a transmitter in Palehua....
and operates MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV
MyNetworkTV is a television broadcast syndication service in the United States, owned by the Fox Entertainment Group, a division of News Corporation...
affiliate KFVE
KFVE
KFVE is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for the state of Hawaii that is licensed to Honolulu. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 22 from a transmitter in Palehua...
by virtue of a shared services agreement
Shared services
Shared services refers to the provision of a service by one part of an organization or group where that service had previously been found in more than one part of the organization or group. Thus the funding and resourcing of the service is shared and the providing department effectively becomes an...
with KFVE's owner MCG Capital Corporation. All three stations share studios on Waiakamilo Road in Honolulu.
As of March 2nd, 2011, KHNL is available in HD on DIRECTV
DirecTV
DirecTV is an American direct broadcast satellite service provider and broadcaster based in El Segundo, California. Its satellite service, launched on June 17, 1994, transmits digital satellite television and audio to households in the United States, Latin America, and the Anglophone Caribbean. ...
.
Programming
KHNL clears all network programming. The station rarely pre-empts NBC for two reasons. First, NBC has historically been not as tolerant as the other networks although they have loosened up. Second, when KHNL picked up the network in 1995, NBC had less programming that local stations could pre-empt than they did in the past. Outside of network hours, KHNL airs various syndicated programming. Compared to the other major network affiliates in Hawaii, they air no sitcom or drama reruns. This can be attributed mainly to NBC's extensive overnight lineup which leaves very little room for affiliates to air syndicated programming during the late night hours.Syndicated
Television syndication
In broadcasting, syndication is the sale of the right to broadcast radio shows and television shows by multiple radio stations and television stations, without going through a broadcast network, though the process of syndication may conjure up structures like those of a network itself, by its very...
programming on KHNL includes Entertainment Tonight
Entertainment Tonight
Entertainment Tonight is a daily tabloid television entertainment television news show that is syndicated by CBS Television Distribution throughout the United States, Canada and in many countries around the world. Linda Bell Blue is currently the program's executive producer...
, The Doctors
The Doctors (2008 TV series)
The Doctors is an American syndicated talk show airing daily in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Ireland, Sweden and Finland. It debuted on September 8, 2008. The hour-long daytime program is produced by Phil McGraw and his son Jay McGraw and is distributed domestically and globally by CBS Television...
, Who Wants To Be a Millionaire and Judge Joe Brown.
Digital programming
The station's signal is multiplexed. On DT2 is NBC Plus which is not seen on the digital tier of Oceanic Time Warner Cable. After Hawaii's analog television shutdownDTV transition in the United States
The DTV transition in the United States was the switchover from analog to exclusively digital broadcasting of free over-the-air television programming...
on January 15, 2009, the three full-powered stations remained on their current digital channels using PSIP to display virtual channels for each station corresponding to their former analog channel numbers .
As of Wednesday, March 2, 2011 KHNL is now available in HD on DirecTV. (local channel 13) Leaving KFVE as the only local channel remaining in Hawaii not offered in HD by DirecTV.
As an independent station
The station signed-on July 4, 1962 as KTRG airing an analog signal on VHF channel 13 from a transmitter on top of the Hawaiian Village Hotel in WaikikiWaikiki
Waikiki is a neighborhood of Honolulu, in the City and County of Honolulu, on the south shore of the island of Oahu, in Hawaii. Waikiki Beach is the shoreline fronting Waikīkī....
. Owned by the Watumull Broadcasting Company and unaffiliated with a national network, they broadcasted English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
and Japanese language
Japanese language
is a language spoken by over 130 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japonic language family, which has a number of proposed relationships with other languages, none of which has gained wide acceptance among historical linguists .Japanese is an...
Independent
Independent station
An independent station is in the category of television terminology used to describe a television station broadcasting in the United States or Canada that is not affiliated with any television network....
programming. New ownership started on January 15, 1966. In 1967, KTRG switched call letters to KIKU and moved to Puuhale Road while offering English programming from 1 to 5 P.M. as well as 10 to 11 with Japanese programming from 5 to 10. The English shows included old movies, westerns, and cartoons.
Mid-Pacific Television Associates bought the station on April 9, 1979. By this time, it ran English programming (like "Hour Magazine
Hour Magazine
Hour Magazine may refer to:* Hour , a weekly entertainment newspaper published in Montreal* Hour Magazine , a syndicated talk show hosted by Gary Collins, which aired from 1980 to 1988...
" and "The John Davidson Show") from 7 A.M. until 7 P.M. with Japanese programming from 7 to 10 and back to English after 10 until their sign-off. In 1981, the station became a full-time English speaking general entertainment station running a blend of cartoons, sitcoms, westerns, movies, and for a brief time, a local newscast. Japanese programming moved to various UHF stations. In 1984, the call letters were changed again to the current KHNL and the station branded itself as the "News Alternative" and "Free Movie Channel" while also beginning to air University of Hawaii at Manoa
University of Hawaii at Manoa
The University of Hawaii at Mānoa is a public, co-educational university and is the flagship campus of the greater University of Hawaii system...
athletics.
As Fox affiliate
In 1986, the year the station was acquired by the King Broadcasting CompanyKing Broadcasting Company
King Broadcasting Company is a Seattle, Washington media conglmerate founded by Dorothy Stimson Bullitt. It began with one AM radio station and later an FM radio station, and grew to include a large group of broadcast television and radio stations, as well as a cable television network.-History:In...
of Seattle, KHNL contracted programming from the new Fox network to begin airing in April 1987. This included The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers, The Tracey Ullman Show
The Tracey Ullman Show
The Tracey Ullman Show was an American television variety show, hosted by British comedian and onetime pop singer Tracey Ullman. It debuted on April 5, 1987 as the Fox network's second primetime series after Married... with Children, and ran until May 26, 1990. The show blended sketch comedy shorts...
, and Married with Children. Also in 1986, they added translator station K21AG from Scala Broadcasting to rebroadcast KHNL on Maui. This was eventually divested to LeSea Broadcasting in July 1990. In June 1987, the station added K65BV from the Channel 13 Club of Kauai. In May 1989, KHBC-TV in Hilo became a full-time satellite of KHNL. In August 1990, KOGG began broadcasting on Maui as a satellite.
It was not until September 1993, after King Broadcasting was sold to the Providence Journal Company
The Providence Journal
The Providence Journal, nicknamed the ProJo, is a daily newspaper serving the metropolitan area of Providence, Rhode Island and is the largest newspaper in Rhode Island. The newspaper, first published in 1829 and the oldest continuously-published daily newspaper in the United States, was purchased...
, that KHNL adopted the brand name "FOX 13". On May 5 of that year, they entered into a local marketing agreement
Local marketing agreement
In U.S. and Canadian broadcasting, a local marketing agreement is an agreement in which one company agrees to operate a radio or television station owned by another licensee...
(a.k.a. LMA) with KFVE which merged its operations into KHNL's facility. In January 1994, all University of Hawaii sports moved to KFVE where it remains today. In August, KHON-TV
KHON-TV
KHON-TV is a Fox-affiliated television station in Honolulu, Hawaii. The station broadcasts on virtual channel 2.In addition to its Honolulu broadcast facilities, KHON has relays on all the major Hawaiian Islands to rebroadcast programs outside of metropolitan Honolulu: KHAW-TV in Hilo; KAII-TV in...
announced it was dropping its affiliation with NBC to become the new Fox affiliate since its new owner, SF Broadcasting, was partly funded by the network. At first there was talk about NBC going with current ABC affiliate KITV
KITV
KITV is the American Broadcasting Company television station affiliate licensed to Honolulu, Hawaii. Based in Honolulu and broadcasting on digital channel 40, displayed as channel 4 the station is owned by Hearst Television and operates several satellites and translators on all the major Hawaiian...
. However, after Argyle purchased that station in 1995, they decided to keep KITV with ABC instead. On January 1, 1996, KHNL switched its affiliation to NBC while Fox moved to KHON.
As NBC affiliate
With the new affiliation, KHNL began construction of the first fully digital newsroom in the world. It also became the first to utilize fiber optic technology to broadcast live feeds from the neighboring islands. Former KITV anchor Dan Cooke and sports anchor Robert Kekaula moved to KHNL during that time to start up the very first newscast on this station. On January 1, 1996, the station officially became Hawaii's new NBC affiliate dubbed "NBC Hawaii News 8" (for the station's dial position on most Hawaii cable systems). During that year, KHNL won the first Emmy AwardEmmy Award
An Emmy Award, often referred to simply as the Emmy, is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards and the Grammy Awards .A majority of Emmys are presented in various...
for a local news broadcast. When the Providence Journal Company merged with Belo
Belo
Belo Corp. is a Dallas-based media company that owns 20 commercial broadcasting television stations and two regional 24-hour cable news television channels. The company was previously known as A.H. Belo Corp. after one of the early owners of the company, Alfred Horatio Belo, now the name of the...
on February 28, 1997, the station struck a deal with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin was a daily newspaper based in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. At the time publication ceased on June 6, 2010, it was the second largest daily newspaper in the state of Hawaii...
newspaper to share polling services.
On October 29, 1999, Belo sold KHNL and its LMA with KFVE to current owner Raycom Media along with KASA-TV
KASA-TV
KASA-TV is the Fox network affiliate for most of New Mexico. It is licensed to the state capital, Santa Fe and broadcasts on digital channel 27 but is displayed as channel 2, its former analog channel number. It is owned by LIN TV and is a sister station to CBS affiliate KRQE. The two stations...
in Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque is the largest city in the state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande. The city population was 545,852 as of the 2010 Census and ranks as the 32nd-largest city in the U.S. As...
(which has since been sold to the LIN TV Corporation). Raycom acquired KFVE outright two months after the company completed its purchase of KHNL creating one of the very first official co-owned commercially-licensed duopolies
Duopoly (broadcasting)
In United States broadcast television and radio, duopoly is a term used to describe a single company which owns two or more stations in the same city or community....
in the country. On May 11, 2002, KHBC added a digital signal on UHF channel 22. In 2003, KHNL got national exposure for having Conan O'Brien
Conan O'Brien
Conan Christopher O'Brien is an American television host, comedian, writer, producer and performer. Since November 2010 he has hosted Conan, a late-night talk show that airs on the American cable television station TBS....
's Triumph the Insult Comic Dog do the report at the station. Triumph was actually invited to the station after chatting with people auditioning for American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...
in Hawaii.
SSA with KGMB
On August 18, 2009, KHNL and MCG Capital Corporation (owner of CBS station KGMBKGMB
KGMB is the CBS-affiliated television station for the state of Hawaii that is licensed to Honolulu. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 23 from a transmitter in Palehua....
) announced a planned shared services agreement (a.k.a. SSA) under which KGMB's operations including news coverage would be combined with KHNL and KFVE. The proposal would see KGMB moved from its studios on Kapiolani Boulevard in downtown Honolulu to the KHNL/KFVE facilities on Waiakamilo Road; it would also see KGMB fall under Raycom ownership, moving from channel 9 to channel 5, while KFVE would move from channels 5 to 9 and fall under MCG Capital's ownership. Citing "the economic reality... that this market cannot support five traditionally separated television stations, all with duplicated costs," and facing the risk of "the loss of one, or possibly two stations in Hawaii," Raycom President Paul McTear said the SSA would "preserve three stations that provide important and valuable local, national and international programming to viewers in Hawaii."
The plan, however, has met with criticism from organizations such as Media Council Hawaii which views the plan as a way to circumvent Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
(FCC) rules preventing one company owning two of the top four stations in any market (The FCC only recognizes ownership of facility identifications
Facility ID
The facility ID number or FIN is a unique positive integer assigned by the United States Federal Communications Commission to each domestic and international broadcast station in its Common Database System . Licensees are required to provide the relevant station's FIN when filing reports and...
and not a station's call sign or other properties, and as such Raycom's ownership of both KHNL and KGMB, once it moved to Channel 5, would be allowed). The SSA took effect on October 26, 2009, at which point KHNL dropped its "NBC 8" branding in favor of simply its call letters (KGMB and KFVE, who swapped dial positions on that date, adopted similar branding approaches as well). An estimated 68 positions from a total of 198 from the three stations would be eliminated as part of the agreement.
Satellite stations
These stations, in addition to translator K65BV in Lihue, rebroadcast KHNL's signal throughout Hawaii. K65BV has a transmitter northwest of OmaoOmao, Hawaii
Ōmao is a census-designated place in Kauai County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 1,221 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Ōmao is located at ....
.
| Station | City of license City of license A city of license or community of license, in American and Canadian broadcasting, is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator.... |
Channel Channel (broadcasting) In broadcasting, a channel is a range of frequencies assigned by a government for the operation of a particular radio station, television station or television channel. In common usage, the term also may be used to refer to the station operating on a particular frequency.-See also:*Broadcast... |
First air date | Call letters’ meaning Call sign In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign is a unique designation for a transmitting station. In North America they are used as names for broadcasting stations... |
ERP Effective radiated power In radio telecommunications, effective radiated power or equivalent radiated power is a standardized theoretical measurement of radio frequency energy using the SI unit watts, and is determined by subtracting system losses and adding system gains... |
HAAT Height above average terrain Height above average terrain is used extensively in FM radio and television, as it is actually much more important than effective radiated power in determining the range of broadcasts... |
Facility ID Facility ID The facility ID number or FIN is a unique positive integer assigned by the United States Federal Communications Commission to each domestic and international broadcast station in its Common Database System . Licensees are required to provide the relevant station's FIN when filing reports and... |
Transmitter location | Transmitter Coordinates |
| KHBC-TV | Hilo | 22 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) |
August 22, 1983 | Hilo's NBC | 8 kW | -170 m | 34846 | on top of Hilo Hawaiian Hotel | 19°43′40.9"N 155°4′0.7"W |
| KOGG | Wailuku Wailuku, Hawaii Wailuku is a census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. The population was 12,296 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Maui County.Wailuku is located just west of Kahului, at the mouth of the Īao Valley... |
16 (UHF Ultra high frequency Ultra-High Frequency designates the ITU Radio frequency range of electromagnetic waves between 300 MHz and 3 GHz , also known as the decimetre band or decimetre wave as the wavelengths range from one to ten decimetres... ) |
August 22, 1989 | OGG is Kahului Airport Kahului Airport Kahului Airport is a regional airport in the state of Hawai'i, located east of the Kahului CDP in Maui County on the island of Maui near Haleakala. Most flights into OGG originate from Honolulu International Airport; the Honolulu–Kahului corridor is one of the busiest air routes in the US,... 's IATA code IATA airport code An IATA airport code, also known an IATA location identifier, IATA station code or simply a location identifier, is a three-letter code designating many airports around the world, defined by the International Air Transport Association... |
50 kW | 818 m | 34859 | summit of Haleakala Haleakala Haleakalā , or the East Maui Volcano, is a massive shield volcano that forms more than 75% of the Hawaiian Island of Maui. The western 25% of the island is formed by the West Maui Mountains.- History :... |
20°39′26.7"N 156°21′39.1"W |
News operation
As KTRG, the station had a start-up news program called Nightly News that aired from their original studios at Royal Block on Kalakaua Avenue. After joining NBC, it was the last of the major network television stations in Hawaii to debut a news telecast. In January 1995, they developed a new brand name and successfully mounted a challenge to top rated KHON. On April 17, 1995, the station launched a prime time newscast at 9 with a simulcast on KFVE. Further launches of broadcasts continued with the addition of 10 (on June 19), 5 (on July 24), and 6 o'clock (on November 30) shows. They added a two-hour long morning show on January 1, 1996. A audio simulcast of their 6 P.M. news was added to KUMU AM 1500 on January 6, 1997. August 3 saw the original KFVE broadcast being dropped.On August 31, KHNL added a sports magazine and wrap-up show called Sports Sunday Hawaii. On June 1, 1999, the weeknight 6 o'clock show began began simulcasting on KCCN-AM
KKEA
KKEA is a radio station located in Honolulu, Hawaii. The station was formerly owned by Cox Radio and offers the ESPN Radio sports talk format, broadcasting at 1420 kHz with ERP of 5 kW. The station is currently owned and operated by the Blow Up LLC and is being marketed as ESPN 1420...
1420. They added "Chopper 8", the only television helicopter in the market
Media market
A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area , Television Market Area , or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content...
, on April 5, 2000. On April 1, 2002, their weekday morning program was reduced to 90 minutes. A news share agreement was established with KKBG
KKBG
KKBG is a radio station broadcasting a Hot Adult Contemporary format. Licensed to Hilo, Hawaii, USA, the station serves the Hilo area. The station is currently owned by Pacific Radio Group, Inc....
-FM 97.9, KLEO
KLEO
KLEO is a radio station broadcasting a Hot Adult Contemporary format simulcasting co-owned KKBG from Hilo .Licensed to Kahaluu, Hawaii, USA. The station is currently owned by Pacific Radio Group, Inc.....
-FM 106.1, KHLO-AM, and KKOA
KKOA
KKOA is a radio station broadcasting a New Country format. Licensed to Volcano, Hawaii, USA, the station serves the Hilo area. The station is currently owned by Mahalo Broadcasting L.L.C. and features programing from ABC Radio's "Today's Best Country" satellite feed....
-FM 107.7 on October 10. KIKU
KIKU
KIKU-TV is an independent television station based in Honolulu, Hawaii. Currently, KIKU broadcasts on DTV channel 19, Time-Warner Cable 9/Digital 89 , Time-Warner Cable 10/Digital 89 , Time-Warner Cable Digital 89 , Hawaiian Cable 12, and Hawaiian Telcom Cable 20...
began a partnership with KHNL airing nightly news updates from this station on February 3, 2003. October 18, 2004 saw the relaunch of prime time news on KFVE. On January 7, 2007 that station debuted a weeknight 6:30 newscast also produced by KHNL. December 3, 2007 saw the launch of a midday newscast on the station, this has since been dropped. On December 22, 2008, KHNL and KFVE became the first local stations in Hawaii to broadcast local newscasts in high definition.
The origins of the three stations sharing their resources was announced on August 18, 2009, when MCG Capital Corporation and Raycom Media (owner of KHNL and, at the time, KFVE) announced a shared services agreement
Shared services
Shared services refers to the provision of a service by one part of an organization or group where that service had previously been found in more than one part of the organization or group. Thus the funding and resourcing of the service is shared and the providing department effectively becomes an...
which would see Raycom merge the three stations' operations into the KHNL/KFVE studios on Waiakamilo Road in Honolulu (KGMB would vacate its studios on Kapiolani Boulevard). Though non-news programming would remain in place, the 3 stations' news operations would be combined under one banner. The arrangement would also see a channel swap, with KGMB moving from PSIP channel 9 to channel 5 and KFVE move from 5 to 9. KFVE's newscasts would remain in place
The shared services agreement resulted in the termination of all but four KHNL on-air staff and all of KHNL's morning show technicians when its newsroom merged with KGMB on October 26, 2009 when they began their simulcast. The two stations began to jointly produce and simulcast a weeknight 5 and 10 o'clock newscasts while KHNL moved their 6 P.M. show to 5:30. KGMB continues to have its own weeknight 6 o'clock newscast. The only times when they don't simulcast is during the 7AM hour when KHNL starts airing NBC's Today Show, 5:30PM when KGMB airs The CBS Evening News, and at 6PM when KHNL airs The NBC Nightly News. Weekday morning and weekend shows are simulcasted on the two but can be preempted on one station due to network obligations. The local news schedule on KFVE-TV remains unchanged. There is no weekday midday news on either station.
Newscast titles
- KHNL Hawaii News 8 (1995–1996)
- Ten at 10 (10 p.m. newscast; 1995–2004)
- NBC Hawaii News 8 (1996–2002)
- News 8 (2002–2004)
- KHNL News 8 (2004–2009)
- Hawaii News Now (2009–present)
Station slogans
- Live. Local. Latebreaking. (1995–2009)
- Live, Local, Connected (2009–present)
Current on-air staff
Hawaii News Now Anchors- Steve Uyehara - weekday mornings at 5 a.m.-7 a.m. (also sports special assignments)
- Tannya Joaquin - weekday mornings at 5 a.m.-7 a.m. (also reporter)
- Shawn Ching - weeknights at 5 & 5:30 p.m. (also reporter)
- Stephanie Lum - weeknights at 5, 5:30, & 10 p.m.
- Keahi Tucker - weeknights at 10 p.m.
- Lisa Kubota - weekends at 5 & 10 p.m. (also reporter)
Hawaii's Severe Weather Team (Hawaii Weather Now)
- Guy Hagi - weeknights at 5, 5:30, & 10 p.m.
- Dan Cooke - weekday mornings at 5 a.m.-7 a.m. (also fill-in morning news anchor)
- Malika Dudley - weekends at 5 & 10 p.m. (also weekday morning special projects reporter)
- Ben Gutierrez - fill-in weather anchor (also reporter)
Hawaii Traffic Now
- Taizo Braden - weekday mornings at 5 a.m.-7 a.m.
Hawaii Sports Now
- Chris Tanaka - sports director - weeknights at 10 p.m.
- Mike Cherry - sports anchor - weekends at 5 & 10 p.m. (also weekday sports reporter)
Hawaii News Now Reporters
- Brooks Baehr - general assignment reporter
- Howard Dicus - weekday morning business and weeknight special reports
- Howard's Day Off host on Hawaii Public RadioHawaii Public RadioHawaii Public Radio , is a network of five non-commercial, listener-supported stations serving the state of Hawaii. The stations originate from the studios of The Hawaii Public Radio Plaza, located at 738 Kaheka Street, near the Ala Moana Shopping Center in Honolulu.-History/programming:Hawaii...
- Howard's Day Off host on Hawaii Public Radio
- Byron Furukawa - weekday mornings "Around Town"
- Terry Hunter - movie/film critic
- Amy Kalili - weekday morning special correspondent for Hawaiian news
- Jim Mendoza - general assignment reporter
- Teri Okita - senior reporter
- Tim Sakahara - general assignment reporter
- Minna Sugimoto - general assignment and crime reporter
- Billy V - weekday morning local events and celebrity news
- heard on KINE-FMKINE-FMKINE-FM/Hawaiian 105 KINE" is a Traditional Hawaiian music station based in Honolulu, Hawaii. The Cox Radio outlet broadcasts at 105.1 MHz with an ERP of 100 kW...
105.1
- heard on KINE-FM
- Oscar Valenzuela - general assignment reporter (also video journalist)
- Ramsay Wharton - weekday morning reporter (also fill-in morning news anchor)
- Sarah Yoro - web reporter
Former on-air staff
- Maria QuibanMaria QuibanMaria Quiban is a weather anchor for KTTV-TV in Los Angeles, California. She studied journalism at the University of Hawaii.Prior to being an anchor in Los Angeles, she was the weather anchor for NBC Hawaii News 8...
(Weather Anchor) - Currently with KTTV-TV, Los Angeles, CA