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KHNL/KFVE/KHBC/KOGG - Honolulu,
Hawaii
News 8 started out life as KTRG Channel 13 on July 4, 1962.
Owned by Watumull Broadcasting Company, KTRG's programs included
"High School Bowl," "You Bet Your Life," "Dragnet," "Riverboat,"
with the locally-produced "Nightly News," "Bishop Museum
Presents," and "Science Panorama," a series from the University
of Hawaii. Programming was primarily in English, but included
one or two shows in Japanese.
In 1967, KTRG changed it's name
to KIKU (Chrysanthemum in Japanese) Channel 13. New owner
Richard Eaton unveiled the name, with a marked increase in
Japanese broadcasting, on October 5, along with "plans to go
color." Japanese programming was scheduled from 5-10pm, with
English presentations running from 1-5pm, and 10-11pm.
 In
1984, the call letters changed from KIKU to KHNL and the station
entered into an expansion period, purchasing a satellite
downlink facility, co-channel boosters, and rebroadcast
transmitters KOGG in Maui and KHBC in Hilo. KHNL also began
operating KFVE-TV through one of the first Local Market
Agreements in the United States and provided all sales,
programming, marketing, and engineering services to KFVE. KHNL
became the only television station in the country to operate two
full power VHF television systems.
KHNL has received numerous Emmy awards and nominations over the years for its newscasts. In April 1995, KHNL re-branded itself as “KHNL News 8” to reflect its new entry into the local news business and also as a positioning statement reflecting its cable channel(Ch.8) in 90% of all Hawaii TV households. The station now refers to its newscasts under the “KHNL News 8” moniker, while calling the station as a whole, “KHNL NBC 8”, to reflect its NBC affiliation, which took effect on January 1, 1996.
On January 16, 1995, KFVE-TV became the local United Paramount Network affiliate, picking up The WB as a secondary affiliate on December 28, 1998. On September 2, 2002, KFVE became a primary WB affiliate, no longer carrying UPN programming. And on September 4, 2006, KFVE became an affiliate of the new MyNetworkTV (MNT) network.
KFVE,
known as "K5 The Home Team," is the home of University of Hawaii
sports with over 120 telecasts annually, making it the biggest
intercollegiate sports package on any broadcast entity in the
country. KHNL/KFVE have been the exclusive local home of UH
Rainbow Warriors sports since 1986. Our current agreement guarantees us
coverage of the 'Bows through June, 2008.
October 29, 1999, Raycom Media,
Inc. purchased KASA-TV, KHNL-TV, and the local marketing
agreement with KFVE-TV. On January 3, 2000, Raycom Media became
the first owner of two television stations in a single market
with the purchase of KFVE-TV.
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