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KGMB
KGMB (channel 5) is a television station in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, serving the Hawaiian Islands as an affiliate of CBS. It is owned by Gray Media alongside dual NBC/Telemundo affiliate KHNL (channel 13) and Kailua-Kona–licensed KFVE (channel 6), which relays KHNL's second and sixth digital subchannels. The stations share studios on Waiakamilo Road in Honolulu's Kapālama neighborhood; KGMB's transmitter is located in Akupu, Hawaii. History The station first signed on the air on December 1, 1952, as the second television station in Hawaii. KGMB-TV was originally owned by J. Howard Worrall along with KGMB radio (AM 590, now KSSK (AM), KSSK) and operated from studios on Kapiolani Boulevard in Honolulu. The station carried programming from three of the four major networks at the time (excluding DuMont Television Network, DuMont), but was a primary CBS affiliate owing to KGMB-AM's long affiliation with CBS News Radio, CBS Radio. The station lost NBC programming when KONA- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KHNL
KHNL (channel 13) is a television station in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, serving the Hawaiian Islands as an affiliate of NBC and Telemundo. It is owned by Gray Media alongside CBS affiliate KGMB (channel 5), a combination known as Hawaii News Now. The two stations share studios on Waiakamilo Road in downtown Honolulu; KHNL's transmitter is located in Akupu, Hawaii. KHNL is also rebroadcast on the island of Hawaiʻi, Maui, and Kauaʻi. The present station on channel 13 began broadcasting July 4, 1962, as KTRG-TV, an independent station owned by the Watumull family. In 1967, Richard Eaton's United Broadcasting Company purchased the station. The call letters were changed to KIKU-TV and the format to primarily Japanese-language shows. In addition to serving Hawaii's Japanese-language community, the station gained notice in the wider market for its telecasts of sumo wrestling as well as ''tokusatsu'' series, particularly ''Android Kikaider'' (better known in Hawaii as ''Kika ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KHII-TV
KHII-TV (channel 9) is a television station in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, serving the Hawaiian Islands as an affiliate of MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside dual Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox affiliate/The CW, CW owned-and-operated station KHON-TV (channel 2). The two stations share studios at the Haiwaiki Tower in downtown Honolulu; KHII's main transmitter is located in Akupu, Hawaii. History Early history KHII signed on the air on February 7, 1988, as KFVE, broadcasting on channel 5, as the final VHF station in the media market, market. Originally, KFVE focused on low-budget programming such as ''Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series), Hawaii Five-O'' repeats. Later under the moniker "Hawaii is Watching us Grow", it focused on movies and syndicated fare, and by 1990 acquired programs from KMGT (channel 26, now KAAH) before its format switch to religious programming. As a small-time independent station, it had to rely on low-budget programming and Japanese l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawaii News Now
''Hawaii News Now'' (also abbreviated as ''HNN'') is a news department shared by three television stations in Honolulu, Hawaii: CBS affiliate KGMB (channel 5), NBC affiliate KHNL (channel 13), and Telemundo affiliate KFVE (channel 6). The newscasts are produced by Gray Media, which owns KGMB, KHNL, and KFVE. It also has a partnership with KBFD, which uses KGMB's taped-on-the-field stories during KBFD's 11 p.m. Korean-language newscast with Korean language subtitles, and a radio partnership with KHKA. Background KGMB's news department started shortly after it signed on the air in 1952, and had the highest-rated of the Honolulu market's newscasts for most of its first 25 years; after sports director Joe Moore joined KHON-TV (channel 2) in 1978, KHON overtook KGMB for the lead, with KGMB's newscasts placing either second or third in the ratings for the next three decades. KHNL had run newscasts intermittently since signing on as independent station KTRG in 1962, it forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KHON-TV
KHON-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, serving the Hawaiian Islands as an affiliate of Fox and an owned-and-operated station of The CW. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside MyNetworkTV affiliate KHII-TV (channel 9). The two stations share studios at the Haiwaiki Tower in downtown Honolulu; KHON's main transmitter is also located downtown at the Century Center condominium/business complex. History NBC affiliate KHON-TV first signed on the air on November 16, 1952, as the first Hawaiian television station and a primary NBC affiliate, KONA, occupying the channel 11 position. It also had a secondary affiliation with DuMont (which it later shared with KULA-TV, now KITV, after it signed on in 1954) until that network's demise in 1955. The station was originally owned by Herbert Richards. Two years later in 1954, the ''Honolulu Advertiser'' purchased the station. On October 16, 1955, KONA changed channels from 11 to 2 due to the low ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KSSK (AM)
KSSK (590 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Honolulu, Hawaii, and owned by It simulcasts an adult contemporary radio format with sister station 92.3 KSSK-FM. For much of November and December, the stations switch to Christmas music, including Hawaiian artists' holiday songs. On Christmas Eve and Day, KSSK’s Christmas music airs with only sponsor messages in between songs rather than the normal commercial interruptions. The studios and offices are in the Kalihi neighborhood of Honolulu. KSSK 590 is powered at 7,800 watts, using a non-directional antenna. The transmitter site is on Dillingham Boulevard near the Kapalama Canal, about a mile from the studios. KSSK serves as Hawaii's primary AM station entry point for the Emergency Alert System, with KRTR-FM providing PEP capabilities on FM. Programming KSSK-AM-FM use the slogan "Hawaii's Favorite", and Nielsen consistently ranks the pair as Honolulu's most listened-to radio station. The stations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KITV
KITV (channel 4) is a television station in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, serving the Hawaiian Islands as an affiliate of ABC. It is owned by Allen Media Group alongside multicultural independent station KIKU (channel 20). The two stations share studios on South King Street in downtown Honolulu; KITV's main transmitter is located atop the Ala Moana Hotel in Honolulu. Rebroadcasters on the islands of Maui and Hawaii extend the station's signal. Channel 4 was the third station established in Honolulu as KULA-TV in April 1954. It was constructed by Iowa-based American Broadcasting Stations, then-owner of radio station KULA, and affiliated with ABC from the start. Three years later, industrialist Henry J. Kaiser founded the city's fourth TV station, KHVH-TV on channel 13. Established in the same year as radio station KHVH (990 AM), it was an independent station that aired primarily movies and brought color television to the islands. Kaiser bought KULA-TV in 1958 and merged the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KFVE
KFVE (channel 6) is a television station licensed to Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, United States, which relays the second and sixth digital subchannels of Honolulu-based NBC affiliate KHNL (channel 13). It is owned by Gray Media alongside KHNL and CBS affiliate KGMB (channel 5). The stations share studios on Waiakamilo Road in Honolulu's Kapālama neighborhood; KFVE's transmitter is located near Kalaoa, Hawaii. KFVE serves a area, and covers an estimated population of 71,400. The station's programming is also seen on broadcast relay station#Satellite stations, satellite station KLEI, channel 21 in Wailuku, Hawaii, Wailuku which is owned by Mango Broadcasting and operated by Gray under a local marketing agreement (LMA). History The station went on the air in 1988 as KVHF, a satellite of Mauna Kea Broadcasting's KAAH-TV, KMGT channel 26, and changed its call letters to KLEI on March 9, 1992. The station was affiliated with Ion Television, Pax TV/i/Ion (as a satellite station, satellite o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emmis Communications
Emmis Corporation is an American media conglomerate based in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Emmis, based on the Hebrew word for "Truth" (''Emet'') was founded by Jeff Smulyan in 1980. Emmis has owned many radio stations, including KPWR and WQHT, which have notoriety for their Hip Hop Rhythmic format as well as WFAN, which was the world's first 24-hour sports talk radio station. In addition to radio, Emmis has invested in TV, publishing, and mobile operations throughout the U.S. History 1980s In 1980, Emmis Broadcasting founder Jeffrey Smulyan purchased his first radio station, WSVL-FM Shelbyville, Indiana. In July 1981, Smulyan changed the format from country music to adult contemporary and renamed the station WENS and later to WLHK. In 1982, Emmis acquired WLOL in Minneapolis, MN and quickly became a top contender for ratings. Around 1984, the company bought Magic 106 in Los Angeles, California; at the time, L.A. Lakers player "Magic" Johnson was an early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil Heftel
Cecil Landau Heftel (September 30, 1924 – February 4, 2010) was an American politician and businessman from Hawai'i. A Democrat, He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1977 to 1986 for the First Congressional District, encompassing most of urban Honolulu. Early years Heftel was born in Chicago, Illinois; his maternal grandparents were from Russia and his paternal grandparents from Poland. He attended Roosevelt High School in Albany Park, Chicago, then obtained his bachelor's degree from the Arizona State University in 1951. Heftel then attended the University of Utah and New York University for graduate work. Heftel was a Latter-day Saint. Heftel settled in Honolulu and established Heftel Broadcasting. He owned KGMB-AM-FM-TV and several other television and radio stations across the country. From 1943 to 1946, Heftel served in the United States Army. In 1957 Heftel was a pioneer for what was then called Top 30 programming, when he purchased KIMN in Denve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Language
is the principal language of the Japonic languages, Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan, the only country where it is the national language, and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously classified Hachijō language. There have been many Classification of the Japonic languages, attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as Ainu languages, Ainu, Austronesian languages, Austronesian, Koreanic languages, Koreanic, and the now discredited Altaic languages, Altaic, but none of these proposals have gained any widespread acceptance. Little is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), extensive waves of Sino-Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KIKU
Kiku may refer to: People with the given name * Ju Jingyi (born 1994), Chinese singer, actress and member of SNH48, nicknamed "Kiku" * Kiku Amino (1912-1978), Japanese author and translator * Kiku Nishizaki (1900-1979), one of the two pioneer Japanese women aviators * Kiku Sharda (born 1975), Indian comedian * Kiku Usami, a Japanese supercentenarian Fictional characters * Kiku, a Little Bill character Places * Kiku, Estonia * Kikuh, Mazandaran Other uses * Imperial Seal of Japan (''Kiku No Gomon'') * Chrysanthemum Day (''Kiku no sekku'') * Kīkū, a 6-string guitar-ukulele hybrid, also called a guitalele A guitalele (sometimes spelled guitarlele or guilele), also called a ukitar, or kīkū,KIKU, a television station ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The WB
The WB Television Network (shortened to The WB, stylized as "THE WB", and nicknamed the "Frog Network" and/or "The Frog" for its former mascot Michigan J. Frog) was an American television network that ran from 1995 to 2006. It launched on terrestrial television, broadcast television on January 11, 1995, as a joint venture amongst the Warner Bros., Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner, the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Media, Tribune Company (later bought by Nexstar Media Group), and Jamie Kellner, with the first acting as controlling partner (and from which The WB received its name). The network aired programs targeting teenagers and young adults between the ages of 13 and 34, while its children's division, Kids' WB, targeted children between the ages of 4 and 12. On January 24, 2006, Warner Bros. and CBS Corporation announced plans to replace their respective subsidiary networks, The WB and UPN, with The CW later that same year. The WB ceased op ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
