KHXM (1370

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) is a

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licensed to

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. The station is owned by George Hochman through licensee Hochman Hawaii Two, Inc. KHXM broadcasts an

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for the

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radio market. The

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s and offices are on Bishop Street in Honolulu. KHXM is powered at 250

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s from a non-directional

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near Mililani Cemetery Road in Pearl City. It is also heard on 250-watt

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K280FC at 103.9

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and 99-watt FM translator K284AL at 104.7

in Haleiwa.

History

The station

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the air as KLNI on . It later switched its

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to KIPA and KIFO, a

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outlet operated by Hawaii Public Radio from 1990 to 2002. In 2002, it went off the air and was sold to a Utah-based company. In 2005, the

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was sold to another Utah-based broadcaster which, after closing the sale in 2006, had planned to bring a

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format to Honolulu. But the owner changed his mind and opted to go with a

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format. By then using the call sign KUPA, it returned to the air on August 31, 2007. It used programming from

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around the clock but with plans to include local content eventually. On November 1, 2007, KUPA went off the air when it lost its transmitter site, with a brief return to maintain the license in November 2008 from a temporary site. The station resumed regular programming on March 15, 2010. KUPA's entry into sports radio brought the number of sports talk outlets in Honolulu to three and a half. 1420 KKEA and 1500

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were the other two full time sports stations, while a third one, 1180 KORL (now silent), offered sports talk in the evening hours. This type of competition is unusual, especially in a market with no major professional sport teams, in part due to geographical and financial reasons. A Chinese-language format was observed to be in operation in mid-January 2016. KUPA went silent again in January 2020, along with its associated FM translator. KUPA and its translator were sold to Hochman Hawaii Two, Inc. for $55,000. The call letters were changed to KHXM on September 24, 2020. The station returned to the air with an

format. While rock music is not usually heard on the AM band, the station feeds and images itself around its two translators, 103.9 in

and 104.7 in Haleiwa.

References

External links

From Honolulu Star-Bulletin (August 31, 2007)
* * * * {{Honolulu Radio HXM Alternative rock radio stations in the United States Modern rock radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1985 1985 establishments in Hawaii