WVUV-LP
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- This page is about KKHJ-LP in American Samoa, which brands itself as "KHJ-TV". For the former KHJ-TV in Los Angeles, see KCAL-TVKCAL-TVKCAL-TV, channel 9, is an independent television station in Los Angeles, California, USA, owned by the CBS Corporation. KCAL-TV shares its studio facilities with KCBS-TV inside CBS Studio Center in the Studio City section of Los Angeles, and its transmitter is located atop Mount Wilson.-Digital...
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KKHJ-LP is the name of a low-power
Low-power broadcasting
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television station
Television station
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in Pago Pago, American Samoa
Pago Pago, American Samoa
Pago Pago , also spelled ', is the capital of American Samoa. In 2000, its population was 11,500. The city is served by Pago Pago International Airport. Tourism, entertainment, food, and tuna canning are the primary industries here. From 1878 to 1951, this was a coaling and repair station for the...
. The station broadcasts over the air on UHF channel 30, and is an NBC
NBC
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affiliate.
The station was founded on November 4, 2003 as TBN
Trinity Broadcasting Network
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repeater K30HO. It changed its call sign to WVUV-LP on March 21, 2005 after its acquisition by South Seas Broadcasting; however, it branded itself as "KHJ-TV". On March 11, 2008, the station changed its call sign to KKHJ-LP, reflecting its branding.
It was the first privately owned television station and, later, network affiliate, in American Samoa -- government-owned KVZK-4 and KVZK-5 carry programming from ABC
American Broadcasting Company
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and CBS
CBS
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, and had carried NBC before WVUV's acquisition by South Seas.
Even though the station is located on a Pacific island, it had originally taken a call sign beginning with "W". Co-owned WVUV had been established during WWII
World War II
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and was "grandfathered" with a W-call, and the FCC
Federal Communications Commission
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allowed channel 30 to use a "conforming" call (WVUV-LP). WVUV-LP had the distinction of being the furthest west television stations with a "W" call sign in the United States and the only "W" television call sign in the Pacific.
KKHJ-LP is co-owned with WVUV, WVUV-FM
WVUV-FM
WVUV-FM is a radio station licensed to serve Fagaitua, American Samoa. The station is owned by South Seas Broadcasting and licensed to Shannon J. Cummings...
, KKHJ, and KKHJ-FM
KKHJ-FM
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. The latter is also known as "93KHJ", a tribute to the legendary
KHJ (AM)
KHJ Radio in Los Angeles, California broadcasts Spanish-language entertainment programming as La Ranchera. It was also one of America's most formidable Top 40 radio stations in the 1960s and 1970s as 93 KHJ before changing its format in 1980....
Southern California Top 40 station.