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December 30, 1999 Bob Hogue Out From Channel 2 News It was reported early this morning that KHON TV sports anchor Bob Hogue is out from the Channel 2 News. He is being replaced by KHON TV morning news co-anchor Ron Mizutani. Details to come. -----------------------------------------------------------------
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin reports that KITV Channel 4 and Oceanic Cable are in negotiations for re-broadcast rights of that station's signal over Oceanic's cable TV system. The TV station's owners, Hearst-Argyle wants the cable giant to pay them a fee for re-broadcast rights. Details can be found at this link: http://starbulletin.com/1999/12/29/business/story1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------
The eastern and southern half of the Big Island will be getting a new public radio station. A group known as the Big Island Friends of Public Radio have received more than $50,000 worth of hardware to establish a transmitter site in the Hilo area that will reach the population of the region. The group has been actively raising funds for the station this past year. The new station will more than likely repeat the signal of KHPR/KKUA which broadcasts out of Honolulu. The station already reaches the north and western regions of the Big Island from its Maui relay. Details: http://www.amcity.com/pacific/stories/1999/12/20/daily20.html -----------------------------------------------------------------
Radio station KHVH 830 will be shuffling their local and national talk show line-up starting on January 3. The popular Rick Hamada morning show will be expanding to 4 hours, running from 6 to 10 a.m. Rush Limbaugh will follow at 10:AM, with new entry Michael Medved sandwiched in the 1 p.m. hour followed by Dr. Laura at 3. The station will simulcast the KGMB Channel 9 News at 6:PM and continue to run the Art Bell show in its familiar 8:PM to 2:AM timeslot. Dropped are Oliver North and G. Gordon Liddy's programs. -----------------------------------------------------------------
It was recently reported that KHON's nightly newscasts at 6 and 10:PM continue to lead the local news ratings according to the last Nielsen book (November 1999). The popular newscast anchored by Joe Moore has been a perenial favorite for many years despite the station's change from NBC to Fox several years ago. The #2 station in the market continues to be KITV Channel 4, whose newscast is currently anchored by Howard Dashefsky and Paula Akana. Rounding out the ratings were KGMB's Channel 9 News and KHNL's Hawaii News 8 at 3rd and 4th place respectively. News 8's Dan Cooke will probably be returning to KITV 4 by February. Meanwhile KHON will be adding a weathercast to Moore's Channel 2 News. Model Trini Kaopuiki is set to do weather at Channel 2 starting on January 5.
Around Honolulu's Dial Erika Engle of Pacific Business News reports that KITV 4 morning news co-anchor Kathy Muneno recently left the station to pursue other interests on the mainland. Taking her place alongside Paul Udell is Karen Waygood. Former 98.5 Classic Rock morning guy Chris Daniel has left the islands after his station (KKLV) changed formats in October to "Island Rhythms." Daniel substituted a couple of times on KHVH talk radio for morning personality Rick Hamada after the rock station's demise. Both stations are owned by AM-FM Hawaii. Details on Engle's reports can be read at Pacific Business News' website. -----------------------------------------------------------------
Big Island correspondent Charles Boehnke reports that Hilo's island music station KAPA FM will be simulcast in Kona. The simulcast will become available once a new transmitter at 91.1 on the FM dial is set up. Big Island Radio's new station will be called KAGB and will broadcast with a power of 39 kw in the West Hawaii area. The station is due to be on the air sometime next spring. Boehnke also reports that a new radio station in Keaau is setting up shop and looking for personnel. The station will be broadcasting at 105.1 FM, is owned by American Communications Corp, and headed by mainland broadcaster Jon A De Luc. Applications are being taken at the Hawaii Tribune Herald's mailbox. -----------------------------------------------------------------
Honolulu's morning "shock jocks" were profiled in this past Sunday's (12-19-99) Honolulu Advertiser newspaper. The feature length article profiled KPOI morning man Jeff Blazey who brought mainland style "shock" to Honolulu's airwaves by conducting outlandish promotions and interviewing porn stars on the air. Blazey was one of the handful of jocks profiled in the article, among which included KXME's Kid Leo, Jimmy the Geek and Blunt as well as more subdued Paul Ogata of KRTR radio. The morning drive time is acknowledged as radio's prime time which can command large advertising revenue for popular morning show radio teams. The article written by Suzanne Roig is found in the Island Life section of the Sunday Advertiser.
J.P.Muntal Quits Hawaii Public Radio Eight-time international award-winning producer J.P. Muntal announced his unexpected departure from HPR last Thursday following what he called "a wonderful chance at making a difference on Hawaii's airwaves for more than five glorious years." Muntal who was to host a morning show on HPR's KIPO beginning Dec 6 cited what he called an inadequate allocation of resources for the project. Asked if his departure from HPR had been amicable, Muntal said "If positive changes are to happen, they will happen under the current management team. It may take time and research. I wish them the very very best." Muntal is currently writing a book of his life in radio and can be reached at 808 234 -0175, cell 223 7774.
Oceanic Cable Rates Increase As expected, Oceanic Cable will be raising their rates starting in January. The new charges for standard cable service will increase by $1.59 per month to $30.47. The fee for their addressable cable box, which 10 years ago was a free item, have gone up by another 15 cents. The State's franchise fee (a tax) increases by 10 cents to $1.85 per customer plus 3.126% for charges above Standard Service (Value Plus, Premium, Digital, etc). The increase announcement was included with customer billing statements for the month of December. -----------------------------------------------------------------
In order to bring the "Two Guys In The Morning" program to the Kona side of the Big Island, KLUA FM 93.9 in Kona now simulcasts to KAPA-FM 100.3 in Hilo from 6:AM to 10:AM Monday through Saturday. At the 10:AM conclusion of the show, KLUA rejoins sister station KPVS FM 95.9 in HIlo with the "KISS" format simulcast. "Two Guys In The Morning" featuring Lyman Madeiros and Iaukea (Eye Ow Kea) Bright have become a refreshing and enjoyable listening experience for Big Islanders. Their low key and personable chatter is a welcome compliment to the wide variety of Contemporary and Traditional Hawaiian Music heard on the station. Correspondent Charles Boehnke says that this is what "Modern Hawaiian Radio should be!" Listeners are urged to give the program a try. -----------------------------------------------------------------
Channel One Hawaii recently launched their webcast utilizing the MP3 format. The online service features a live program feed featuring a mix of contemporary and Hawaiian music. The service is still trying to work out some of the kinks in its stream and is temporarily running a 24K stream. News and informational programming are coming soon, according to a spokesperson from the service. The featured technology is nullsoft shoutcast MP3. Channel One also supports Real Media and Shockwave Flash technologies. Channel One Hawaii is owned and operated by Island Music Webcasting LLC. The company is comprised of three entrepreneurs, whose skills range from Radio and Television Broadcasting to Computer programming, marketing & advertising, and business. They can be reached at the following web URL: -----------------------------------------------------------------
Pacific Business News recently reported that Oceanic Cable will be launching an interactive TV service soon. The service will feature a "movies on demand" service as well as online banking, email services and the ability to order pizza. All of this will be available through customers' TV sets after they get a set-top box to subscribe to the service which will initially be rolled out in the Mililani area. Details on this announcement can be found at the PBN website: http://www.amcity.com/pacific/stories/1999/11/22/story1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------
In our month-long, unscientific poll, internet surfers overwhelmingly stated that Hawaiian and Island Music programming was their favorite radio format. It garnered 52% of our survey results significantly leading the next most popular format mix, modern rock-urban-top 40 music, which had a 21% share. Results from the last poll can be found at this messy URL: http://apps3.vantagenet.com/zpolls/count.asp?rlt=911121525&id=911121525 The poll service is run by freepolls.com with questions generated by the Hawaii Radio & Television Guide. A new poll will be online soon. -----------------------------------------------------------------
Radio station KKLV at 98.5 on the FM dial recently changed their call letters to KDNN. This comes a few weeks after the station's change from classic rock to an island music format. -----------------------------------------------------------------
KCCN FM 100 recently unveiled its new website and is now broadcasting online. They can be found at http://www.kccnfm100.com. Sister station KINE 105.1 FM also has a website which is currently under construction. They will be found at http://www.hawaiian105.com. Meanwhile it was reported that KWXX FM 94.7 in Hilo has revamped its website: http://www.kwxx.com.
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