Media News & Discussion Links
Territorial Airwaves New Website, P.R. 12-24-06
RadioHeritage.Net Hawaii Exhibit, P.R. 12-24-06
Clear Channel Radio Deal Rolling Forward, StarBulletin.com, 12-14-06
The CW Gets a Channel on Oceanic Cable, StarBulletin.com, 12-10-06
ABC Moves "Lost "Out of Idol's Way, CNN.com, 12-6-06
Community Television Meeting Slated for Dec. 8, HawaiiReporter.com
DCCA / Olelo Request for Information, Public Notice, 11-2006
Six local radio stations in Buyout..., Honolulu Advertiser, Nov. 17, 2006
HD Radio, Discussion Topic, HawaiiThreads.com
Investor Group Buys Clear Channel for $21.3 Billion, Toronto Star, AP, Nov. 17, 2006
KHON Tagged for Airing Video News Release, Star Bulletin, Nov. 16, 2006
HSTV to Produce Hulihee Palace Video, PR, 11-14-06
Sirius Satellite Radio Files Hawaii Application, Star Bulletin, Nov. 12, 2006
KIPA 620 AM Back on the Air, Discussion
Lost Season 3 Discussion Topic, HawaiiThreads.com
KOHO Call Letters Resurfaces in Washington, Star Bulletin, Nov. 9, 2006
Adult Standards Return to Radio, KHUI website | Discussion
KHON 2's Sister Station Begins Broadcasting
CW TV Mostly MIA in Hawaii, Star Bulletin, Nov 1, 2006
How Well is Your TV Station Doing? - StarBulletin.com, Oct. 12, 2006
KGMB TV To Be Sold Within a Year, StarBulletin.com, Oct. 11, 2006
Newslinks from Around the Dial
July 7, 2006
New Briefs & Links
UH Football Pay Per View Price Increase: KHNL / KFVE TV will increase the prices for live University of Hawaii pay-per-view sports telecasts this coming season. Price hikes of $110 over last year on Oahu and $150 for first-time subscribers. The increases cover pay-perp-view football games not carried by ESPN, some basketball, and women's volleyball games. Single prices for home football games will be $50, while away games will be $60. More details at this link.
OHA Nixes KGMB Proposal: The Office of Hawaiian Affairs decided to nix a proposal to buy KGMB TV from Emmis Communications. More details.
KHCM - KORL Flip Finalized: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) finalized the swap of radio stations KHCM and KORL between Salem Communications and Hochman-McCann last week. KHCM will be moving to 690 AM with its country programming and KORL will move to 1180 AM with their ethnic program mix. Details.
July 6, 2006
OHA Looking into Possible Buy of KGMB TV
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA), a "quasi state government entity" is looking into the possibility of purchaing KGMB TV, the Hawaii CBS affiliate currently owned by Emmis Communications. The OHA Board of Trustees is looking into researching the purchase. The going price for the station is at least $40 million. MORE DETAILS AT THIS LINK | DISCUSSION TOPIC
June 14, 2006
KGMB News Tops Channel 2 at 10:PM Timeslot
Joe Moore has been toppled at 10. In the fierce race for bragging rights of being #1, KGMB TV's Channel 9 News with Kim Gennaula and Keahi Tucker edged out the dominant KHON TV newscast at the 10pm slot for the May Nielsen ratings period. KHON TV still dominates the 5:00, 5:30 and 6:00 pm news time slots, which are anchored by Joe Moore at 5:30 and 6 and Leslie Wilcox at 5. Their morning news gets 50 to 80 percent of the audience.
The top local network shows are "American Idol" on Fox/KHON TV, "CSI" on CBS/KGMB, "Desparate Housewives" and "Grey's Anatomy" on ABC/KITV. ABC's "Lost" has been beaten in the Wednesday night time slot by Fox's "American Idol," though it still remains a top 10 show.
MORE DETAILS AT THIS LINK | DISCUSSION TOPIC
June 11, 2006
KITV Channel 4 News co-anchor Paula Akana was this year's Pa'u Queen in the 90th presentation of the King Kamehameha Day parade and celebration. The annual parade proceeded from its starting point in Downtown Honolulu near the statue of Hawaii's first king and made its way to Kapiolani Park via Kakaako, Ala Moana and Waikiki. More photos at this link.
June 7, 2006
News Tidbits and Links From Around the Dial
PAUL UDELL LEAVES KITV CHANNEL 4: In what appears to be a bombshell announcement, Paul Udell veteran news anchor and reporter for Honolulu ABC affiliate KITV announced his resignation and retirement from the station effective at the end of his vacation period. More details: StarBulletin.com | Discussion Topic
FORMER ISLAND DJ FOUND DEAD: Steven B. Williams, a former island disc jockey and voice talent was recently found dead in the waters off a California Beach last month. Police detectives have ruled his cause of death to be a murder. Details on the killing are still under investigation with no suspect found. Williams was 59. While in Hawaii he was on radio stations KKUA, KIKI, KAHU, KULA, KQMQ and KDEO. More Details at the following links: Denver Post | StarBulletin.com | Discussion Topic
STATION OWNERS MAKE SWAP: Owners of radio stations KORL 690 and KHCM 1180 will be swapping frequencies this summer but retaining call letters and formats. Salem Communications Corp and Hochman-McCann Hawaii Inc. have agreed to the deal to a price of $1 million. The agreement is pending FCC approval. More details: StarBulletin.com | Discussion Topic
LOW POWER AM FROM UH HILO: The University of Hawaii has its first radio station. Low power AM radio station URH (UHH Radio) at 1640 on the AM dial started broadcasting this spring. The non-profit radio station features a format of free form music similar to what is offered at KTUH at the UH Manoa Campus. The volunteer disc jockeys pick the music. A station spokesperson said that they aim to go to 3KW like their UH Manoa counterpart in the future. The station is also streaming their content at their website: http://radio.uhh.hawaii.edu/#
KONI, KORL, KITH and KTOH LINKED: A common URL to HHawaiiMedia radio station websites KONI FM, KORL AM, KITH and KTOH FM was recently brought to my attention. These sites can now be viewed from http://www.hhawaiimedia.net/, which serves as a common gateway to information on each radio station. There are also teaser announcements for a new Maui FM station at 92.5 and a new Oahu AM at 1130.
NEWS DIRECTOR AT KGMB TV: Chris Archer has become a discussion topic on our message board after he was named as the news director for KGMB TV Channel 9. He succeeded Tauna Lange who left the station in March. Newslink | Discussion Topic
HDTV OWNERS DISAPPOINTED AT LACK OF AVAILABILITY: They have the technology. Most of the major network TV channels are already broadcasting a HDTV signal. But the cable company is not carrying any HDTV of our local channels except for KITV 4. More details: StarBulletin.com | Honolulu Advertiser | Discussion Topic
SITE LINKED TO DXers: I got notice a few weeks ago that the Hawaii Radio & Television Guide website has been linked to a Radio Worldwide DXing website in Germany. They track radio stations that they listen to from all over the world. Site Link: Dxer.info.
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: It's been a while since the last update to this page and site. I have been way too busy with other projects, but hopefully now I have time to once again resume with the Hawaii Radio & Television Guide and bring this site up to date. I am planning to go to a blog format but still maintain this page with the blog contents syndicated back here. This will hopefully make it easier for me to update the news section and will possibly open the door for collaboration on the site.
Secondly, I know some if not all of the listings need to be brought up to date. The TV channel listings and several radio station listings as well as their website links will be worked on very soon. If anyone knows of a very user friendly database program that works on a Macintosh and can be easily used to create and maintain a listings file on this website, please let me know. My email address is macpro3000@yahoo.com A site redesign is also in the works.
March 14, 2006
Low Power Energy 101.1 FM Starts Broadcast of Non-Stop Dance Music
This past weekend saw the debut of KXRG radio at 101.1 on the FM dial. The station is playing non-stop dance music and is going by the monicker "Energy 101.1". It's a low power station broadcasting from the middle of the city with a reported range of about 10 miles or so. Reception is strong in town. The station broadcasts from 2pm to 2am daily. It is owned by Ohana Broadcasters Corporation, according to FCC records. The station is non-profit and according to its website will subsist on listener donations.
Listeners in Honolulu who preferred to listen to the somewhat distant signal of Maui's 101.1 FM "The Point" will be shut out of that broadcast whenever KXRG is on the air.
Energy 101.1 FM Website | FCC Record | Discussion Topic
March 2, 2006
Change Continues at Hawaii's KHON TV
The big news this year in Hawaii's media landscape is the finalizaton of KHON TV's sale from Emmis Communications to SJL Acquistion, LLC late last year. SJL in turn renamed themselves Montecito Broadcast Group LLC and announced earlier this year that more than 30 workers, those mainly in production would be laid off in the station's move to more automation. This resulted in more than a half dozen of the station's department heads resigning over the differences of the new owners management style. The exodus was led by KHON TV Senior Vice President and General Manager Rick Blangiardi. Others soon followed. So far the on-air staff have remained in place with lead anchor Joe Moore making a public statement that he was staying with the station for the current term of his contract.
KHON TV is Hawaii's Fox network affiliate and home to the top rated Channel 2 6 o clock and 10 o clock weeknight evening newscasts led by longtime anchor Joe Moore. For several years KHON and KGMB were run as a duopoly in the Honolulu market by its former owners, Emmis. KGMB TV is still owned by Emmis and has been on the market for several months awaiting a new owner.
The station's sale and management woes have become items for constant news fodder and online discussions. Links to the news items and discussion topics are posted below:
KHON Assembles New Management Team
KHON Lays Off Veteran News Exec
KHON To Keep Action Line and Lokahi Programs
KHON Cuts are tip of Television Industry
KHON's Unionized Employees Mull Separation Anxiety
Joe Moore Declines to Leave Anchor Post at KHON
8 of 9 KHON Managers Resigning Amid Cuts
Exodus Takes Shape at KHON
2 more KHON leaders quit over new owner's layoffs
KHON To Slash Work Force
Link to KHON TV Channel 2
Discussion Topic on KHON TV Sale (ongoing)
News From Around the Dial and Elsewhere in the Media Universe
Kauai Community Radio station KKCR recently started broadcasting from their translator station on Oahu at 104.7 FM.
The ongoing news at KHON TV continues, today with an announcement that the station's popular Action Line and Lokahi news segments and programs will continue. See the link in the above KHON section for more information.
The on and off again Hawaii Radio & Television Guide polls continue. For the last few weeks we asked "Who do you think should be the next Democrat nominee for one of Hawaii's U.S. Senate seat"? The choices were between incumbent Senator Dan Akaka and 2nd district Congressman Ed Case. The non-scientific informal poll indicates that Case has a slim lead. The poll results can be found at this link. Political polls will as well as those about local media will continue at this site. Political parties and candidates spend a lot of money advertising in local media, hence the political poll questions at this site. A new poll continues this week. See the poll question on the left.
Singer songwriter Jack Johnson, a Hawaii resident had his newest album, the soundtrack from the film Curious George debut at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 album charts on February 16. The CD has sold more than 100,000 units on its first week out. It is the first time any Hawaii musician has made a debut at #1 on the Billboard magazine main album charts. The lead off single, "Upside Down" is #1 on Honolulu radio station Star 101.9 FM (KUCD). More details.
Hawaii will get 2 more FM stations after non-Hawaii firms won the latest round of FCC bids for vacant frequencies. The new Hawaii radio stations will be at 106.9 FM in Nanakuli and 92.5 FM out of Kahului, Maui. The winning bidders were Big D. Consulting Inc. and Shirk-Mays LLC. More details at this link.
The NBC Discovery Kids TV series "Flight 29 Down," which is filmed on Oahu is now in production for their second season. The Honolulu Advertiser ran a series of articles on the actors last week. More details: Flight 29 Down Takes Off
Hawaii Media Insiders message board and blog was recently launched. While it is supposed to be focused on broadcast media news and insight, the service has begun to take a life of its own with postings of photos, polls and news items on other local issues. The site joins a growing list of Hawaii media focused web resources. Link: Hawaii Media Insiders.
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