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August 28, 1998 Perry & Price's 15th Year on KSSK Radio Saturday (Aug. 29) marks the 15th Anniversary of the Perry & Price Show on KSSK radio. The #1 rated morning duo will be hosting a special program at the Sheraton Waikiki Hotel featuring the popular Hawaiian music group, Na Leo Pilimehana. The Honolulu Star Bulletin has a feature article on the duo's 15th Anniversary.
August 27, 1998 Xtreme Radio's Beach House Upset Neighbors The KGMB News reported last night that radio station KXME's Beach House summer promotion has angered many residents in a quiet Hauula neighborhood on Oahu's North Shore. The story by investigative reporter Jerry Drelling indicated that neighbors have been subjected to daily parties attended by Xtreme Radio winners, noise and traffic. Neighbors reported that they were not notified about the activities when they first started and that the station failed to get the required permits from the county. The promotion ends this weekend at the rented house.
August 25, 1998. Hawaii TV Productions Rev Up For the Fall Network Season The buzz is going out on 2 Hawaii based, prime time network TV series. Scheduled to start airing this fall on ABC TV is a remake of the old Fantasy Island TV show, starring veteran actor, Malcolm McDowell. The series will premiere late next month. On rival NBC, a Hawaii based series based on cattle ranching and extreme sports debuts in October. The series titled Wind on Water stars Bo Derek and Lee Horsley in the principle roles. Both shows will air Saturday nights one after the other on different channels and networks. The Honolulu Star-Bulletin has run a preview article on both series and how they are impacting Hawaii's economy in the August 24 edition. The URL for the article is: http://starbulletin.com/98/08/24/news/story3.html
Short Takes: MidWeek Profiles, KAIM to Carry ILH Sports MidWeek profiles Kanoa Leahey, son of veteran sportscaster Jim Leahey in their latest edition. Kanoa is the voice of HPU sports on radio station KUMU AM 1500. The same edition of MidWeek also carries a profile of radio DJ Charlie Garrett, who has become active again via country radio KHUL 102.7 FM. The Leahey article is online at the MidWeek website this week only. KAIM radio has announced that they will be carrying ILH Football on AM 870 with a simulcast of selected games on KCCN radio 1420 AM. The broadcast is being presented by Starcomm Sports Radio. Dave Lancaster formerly of KSSK radio is doing morning drive at KAIM. Visit the KAIM website for details.
August 24, 1998 KHVH's Rick Hamada Profiled in PBN KHVH talk show host Rick Hamada is profiled in the latest issue of Pacific Business News. The story written by Malia Zimmerman points out Hamada's recent success in rallying listeners to fight the recent GE Tax increase proposal. The story can be read at PBN's website by following this URL: http://www.amcity.com/pacific/stories/082498/smallb2.html. Hamada was recently named best morning show radio host in a Honolulu Weekly poll.
August 22, 1998 Villanueva Joins FM 99.5 Line-Up Hawaii's FM 99.5 (KORL FM 99.5) welcomes longtime island entertainer Rodney Villanueva to the on-air line up. Rodney fills the morning slot. Jeff Kino continues his mid-day duties which include the daily LIVE broadcast to Japan via SkyPerfecTV Travel Television 324.
"Classic Soul" Changes to "Double K Country" Radio station KHUL at 102.7 FM on the dial changed formats going from a "Classic Soul" mix to new "Double K Country" format... The station is now a contemporary country station. The change has more than likely come about as a result of the last Arbitron ratings. Kimo Kahoano, last of KRTR radio is doing the morning drive at the new country station. Charlie Garrett, longtime country DJ in Honolulu is doing the afternoon weekday drive. The addition of 102.7 FM brings a total of 2 country music stations to the Honolulu market. KIKI AM 990 is currently a country music outlet, having adopted the format last fall. KHUL's "Classic Soul" format lasted for barely a year after its parent company had bought out "Radio Free Hawaii" which previously broadcast at that frequency until March of 1997. 102.7 FM was also a country music outlet from 1988 to 1991.
August 13, 1998 Short Takes KGMB TV recently ended production of its local early morning weekday newscast. The show which was never a ratings success was anchored by Tim Tindall and Sandra Sagisi. KPOI radio at 97.5 FM recently altered its modern rock format (again) to include the playing of classic rock tracks along with the new stuff. KPOI failed to crack the top 10 in the most recent Arbitron radio rankings. Cable TV subscribers in the Honokaa area of the Big Island got increased cable channel capacity with the addition of several new services including KFVE, KWHE, MTV, TMC, VH-1, The History Channel and more to their peviously paltry offering. It has not been made known whether or not cable rates will increase for these subscibers, who are serviced by Hawaiian Cablevision. Maui's KAOI radio has added a Real Audio feed to their website.
| Top | August 1, 1998 Oldies 107.9 FM Radio Makes Strong Ratings Gain The Arbitron Ratings for the Spring 1998 period were published in Friday's (July 31) Honolulu Advertiser. According to the Advertiser article the station that has gained the most in the latest rating has been KGMZ 107.9 FM, more popularly known as "1 Oldies 7.9" FM. The station moved up from 9th place overall to 4th in the latest book. KSSK FM still holds to the #1 spot, while the biggest decliner has been KIKI FM (I-94) radio, moving from a tie at #1 to #5. Xtreme Radio, at 104.3FM has also seen a dramatic increase to its listnership probably at the expense of I-94 FM. Xtreme FM and Oldies 107.9 are operated by the same firm, New Planet Radio along with KRTR FM. The Perry & Price show is still the perinnial #1 morning show as it has been for years. Here are the ratings for the top 10 stations in the Honolulu/Oahu market.
From Honolulu Advertiser, July 31, 1998, page D5
Hawaii Public Television & Olelo Set To Merge Hawii Public Television, operators of PBS stations KHET Channel 11 and KMEB Channel 10 will be merging with Olelo, Honolulu's public access cable program provider. The merger comes as a result of drastic cuts to Hawaii Public Television's funding this year. The cuts forced KHET to cut back on local programming and trim hours of broadcast. According to an article in the July 25 Honolulu Advertiser, the merger "will not effect programming - KHET will remain a Public Broadcasting System affiliate ... while Olelo will continue its commitment to public access education and production." Details on the merger such as funding, and production facilities have to be worked out. It was not mentioned whether or not the state's cable access fee will rise to fund the new entity.
KPXO TV To Be Added to Oceanic Cable's Line-Up Oceanic Cable subsribers will be getting KPXO TV Channel 66 to their line-up starting August 31. The new station which has been on the air since June will commence broadcasting its new, family oriented PaxNet programming schedule on that date. The station is currently showing promos for PaxNet as well as daily infomercials. In the Honolulu area, reception of KPXO (at Channel 66 on the UHF dial) has been spotty in some areas. PaxNet will be airing shows like recent network hits, "Touched By An Angel," "Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman," and "Christy" plus some of their own programming. For more information about PaxNet visit their website at http://www.pax.net. In addition to the new channel, Oceanic will be moving Comedy Central to 62 and Home Shopping Network to 57. The FCC user fee will be increased 3 cents starting in September.
| Top | July 1, 1998. Kauai's KONG Radio Sold Kauai radio station KONG AM & FM has been sold to Visionary Entertainment. In a press release issued by Julie D. Camacho of KONG, current owner Rodney Sanchez stated "the sale is more of an indication that good times are coming back to Kauai." New owners Visionary Entertainment are operators of the KAOI radio group on Maui. John Detz of Visionary Entertainment currently has control over construction permits for two new FM stations on Kauai. According to Sanchez, Detz plans to broadcast those stations from the KONG tower. Visionary will be taking over KONG's operations on July 31 if everything goes as planned. KONG radio was instrumental in keeping the lines of communication open during 1992's Hurricane Iniki emergency on the island of Kauai. The station has prospered since the devastation 6 years ago. Spokesperson Bill McCreedy stated, "It's been a rocky road with Kauai's economy but business at KONG has grown 30 percent since Iniki." McCready considers Sanchez's biggest accomplishments surviving Iniki and making KONG Kauai's number one station. KONG was originally in the number two spot when Sanchez took over management in 1988. According to McCready, KONG is one of a handful of radio stations in the state that operates at a profit. The station was sold for $2.2 million.
June 30, 1998. Another Religious Station Hits Hilo Airwaves Hilo is rapidly becoming a haven for religious broadcasters. Big Island correspondent Charles Boehnke reports that a another new station started broadcasting in the Hilo area. Charles reports: "Radio station KCIF 90.3 FM 'Hilo Christian Broadcasting' is now operating bringing even more Christian music to the Hilo area. The station is still "testing" and is not, as yet, affiliated with any network or satellite feed. It is not yet "Officially" on the air. It will have a great deal of local programming instead of the "Satellator" type of programming. They have a studio and will have live people (amazing) on the air and also plans are to have local Pastors and other types of local religious programming as well as quality Christian Music." Station's President and Enginner is Dean Manley, and is operated by Hilo Chrisitian Broadcasting.
GTE Offers Digital Wireless TV Service GTE has started offering Oahu consumers digital wireless cable TV service. The new service dubbed "GTE Americast" features over 150 channels with 16 premium movie channels, 40 pay per view channels and 32 commercial free music channels, according to advertising information. The company recently acquired and expanded the facilities of the old Oahu Wireless Cable franchise upon which GTE built their expanded system.
| Top | June 19, 1998. KHON TV Moving To New Facility It was reported in the Pacific Business News and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin that local Fox affiliate, KHON TV Channel 2 will be moving into brand new digs at a new building going up on 404 Piikoi St. The new KHON TV studios will occupy a large area of the new building's ground floor and will contain new, state of the art digital broadcasting equipment. KHON's move into the digital age follows that of KITV Channel 4, the ABC affiliate that is already broadcasting with the new digital standard, which has been mandated by the FCC to be "the standard" by the year 2006. More details of Channel 2's move can be found at the Pacific Business News, and Honolulu Star-Bulletin's website. Search their back issues for the information.
June 11, 1998 Hilo's KNWB FM Goes Classic Rock By Charles Boehnke KNWB 97.1 FM has dropped its Light Jazz and New Age format and is now "Hawaii's Classic Hits, B-97" 24 hours a day. This was confirmed with a telephone converstion with Station manager Chris Leonard this afternoon. The new music format is primarily Classic Rock and Pop Hits and is one that has not been represented in this area until now. KNWB's sister stations KWXX 94.7 FM will continue as "Your Island Music Station" and will feature both contemporary and traditional Hawaiian favorites, 24 hours a day. The AM outlet, KPUA 670 AM will continue with News/Sports and CNN news, 24 hours. All three stations are owned by New West Broadcasting Company.
New URLs Announced A few more URL's have been added to our growing list here. Please not the following new URLs and changed ones.
KHNL Hawaii News 8: http://www.khnl.com
KKCR FM Radio Kauai: http://www.kkcr.org KAIM AM & FM Radio: http://www.kaimradio.org/
KGMZ 107.9 FM Oldies Radio: http://www.oldiesradio.net
Tuned in Radio & Television: http://www.tvradioworld.com/
| Top | Updated June 5, 1998. New Radio Station in Hilo Yet another radio station recently became active in the town of Hilo Hawaii. Correspondent Charles Boehnke reports that radio station "KLVN 99.3 in Chowchilla, California is now running a translator in Hilo on 89.3 MHZ. Format is Christian popular music and station is listener supported." The station's tag line is "K-LOVE" Chowchilla and now heard in Hilo on 89.3". Reception is pretty decent in the Hilo area.
May 30, 1998. Hawaii Public TV Cutbacks Hawaii Public Television, operators of state subsidized KHET Channels 11 and 10 recently announced that there will be drastic cutbacks. Several Public TV employees will be laid off and 2 long-running, showcase local programs will be going off the air after June 30. Both the issues oriented, live call in show Dialog and the island flavored Spectrum Hawaii will be cancelled, due to lack of funding. The cutbacks came about as funds were cut this year by the Hawaii State Legislature. For more information on the KHET cutback, select this link.
May 19, 1998. KSSK Radio Goes Through Personnel Changes It was recently reported in the Pacific Business News that KSSK radio, one of Honolulu's highest rated radio stations recently went through several personnel changes. Details on the changes can be accessed at the PBN website through this URL: http://www.amcity.com/pacific/stories/050498/story1.html. Among the people out from KSSK are Dave Lancaster and KUCD's Mahlon Moore, who joined KHUL radio. |