KHNL

'KHNL' (''"KHNL NBC 8"'') is the licensed broadcast affiliate of the National Broadcasting Company in Hawaii. Based in Honolulu, KHNL first broadcast from Channel 13 on July 4, 1962 under the call letters KTRG from a transmitter atop the Hawaiian Village Hotel in Waikiki. The station is currently owned by Raycom Media and has satellite feeds on all the major Hawaiian Islands to rebroadcast programs outside of metropolitan Honolulu. Its main transmitter is located in Honolulu. KHNL is also seen on cable channel 8 on Oceanic Cable, which is why they refer to themselves on-air as ''"KHNL NBC 8"'' instead of their regular over-the-air channel position. In addition, KHNL is the sister station of local MyNetworkTV affiliate KFVE-TV.

Contents

History

Early years

FOX Network

NBC Network

Programming

Upcoming schedule changes

KHNL News 8 Team

News Anchors

Live, Local, Late Breaking Weather

Sports

Reporters

KHNL News 8 Past Personalities

Relay Stations

External links

History

Early years

Unaffiliated with a national network, KTRG broadcast English language and Japanese language programming. It had a local start-up news program called ''Nightly News''. Under new ownership in 1967, KTRG became KIKU and offered Japanese language programming from 5:00 to 10:00 p.m. followed by English language programming from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. and 10:00 to 11:00 p.m. The English language shows included old movies, westerns, and cartoons. By the late 1970's the station ran English programming from 7:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. and Japanese programming 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. and back to English Language Programming after 10:00 p.m. until sign off. By 1981 the station became a full time English speaking general entertainment station running a blend of cartoons, sitcoms, westerns, and movies. Japanese programming moved to various UHF stations. In 1984, the call letters were changed again from KIKU to KHNL and branded itself as the "News Alternative" and "Free Movie Channel." The station also began airing University of Hawaii at Manoa athletics.

FOX Network

In 1986, KHNL contracted programming from the new FOX Network to begin airing in 1987: ''Joan Rivers Show'', ''Tracey Ullman Show'', and ''Married with Children''. It wasn't until 1993 that KHNL adopted the brand name ''FOX13''. The following year however, KHON announced it was dropping it affiliation with NBC (its new owner was partly funded by FOX, forcing the change). Since it was losing its FOX affiliation to KHON, KHNL decided to switch its affiliation to NBC.

NBC Network

With the new affiliation, KHNL began construction of the first fully digital newsroom in the world in 1995. It was the last of the major network TV stations in Hawaii to debut a news telecast. It also became the first news station to utilize fiber optic technology to broadcast live feeds from neighbor islands. Former KITV anchors Dan Cooke and sports anchor Robert Kekaula moved to KHNL during that time to start up the very first newscast. That same year, KHNL developed a new brand name, ''KHNL Hawaii News 8''. With all the changes, KHNL successfully mounted a challenge to the top ratings that rival KHON had held for decades. On January 1,1996, KHNL officially became Hawaii's new NBC affiliate, dubbed ''NBC Hawaii News 8''. During 1996, the station won the first Emmy Award for a local news broadcast. The following year, the station struck a deal with the Honolulu Star-Bulletin newspaper to share polling services. In the years ahead, anchors and reporters have come and gone. In 2003, KHNL got national exposure for having Conan O'Brien's Triumph the Insult Comic Dog do the weather report at the station. Triumph was actually invited to the station after chatting with people auditioning for American Idol in Hawaii. In September of 2004, the station became known as ''KHNL NBC 8''. Ever since its first newscast in 1995, KHNL currently claims itself Hawaii's ''Live, Local, Late Breaking'' news station.

Programming

KHNL clears all NBC programming. The station rarely (if ever) pre-empts NBC shows due to NBC's tendency of not being pleased with stations pre-empting network programs.
Outside of network hours, KHNL airs syndicated programming such as ''The Martha Stewart Show'', ''The 700 Club'', ''The Tyra Banks Show'', ''Maury'', and ''Entertainment Tonight''. Compared to the other major network affiliates in Hawaii (KHON, KFVE, KGMB and KITV), KHNL airs no sitcom or drama reruns.

Upcoming schedule changes

Starting Monday, September 10, 2007, a full hour of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' will fill the 2pm timeslot in KHNL's weekday daytime schedule after ''Passions'' leaves NBC the preceding Friday, September 7. Ironically, ''Millionaire'' previously aired on KHNL from 2002 to 2006 before moving to sister station KFVE. KFVE will air the new daytime courtroom show ''Judge David Young'' in ''Millionaire's place.
To accommodate for the upcoming fourth hour of ''The Today Show'', ''The Martha Stewart Show'' will move from KHNL to KHON. ''Martha'' will air on KHON weekdays at 9am.

KHNL News 8 Team

News Anchors

★ 'Kristine Uyeno' - KHNL News 8 Sunrise, KHNL News 8 Today

★ 'Marvin Buenconsejo' - KHNL News 8 Sunrise, KHNL News 8 Today

★ 'Walter Makaula' - KHNL News 8 at 5PM, K5 News at Nine on KFVE-TV

★ 'Howard Dashefsky' - KHNL News 8 at 6PM and 10PM

★ 'Stephanie Lum' - KHNL News 8 at 6PM and 10PM, K5 News at Nine on KFVE-TV

★ 'Diane Ako' - KHNL News 8 at 5PM (Sunday), 6PM (Saturday), and 10PM (Sat. & Sun.), K5 News at Nine (weekends) on KFVE-TV

★ 'Paul Drewes' - KHNL News 8 at 5PM (Sunday), 6PM (Saturday), and 10PM (Sat. & Sun.), K5 News at Nine (weekends) on KFVE-TV

Live, Local, Late Breaking Weather

★ 'Sharie Shima' - Chief Meteorologist - KHNL News 8 at 5PM, 6PM, & 10PM

★ 'Paul Drewes' - Meteorologist - KHNL News 8 at 5PM (Sunday), 6PM (Saturday), and 10PM (Sat. & Sun.)

★ 'Angela Keen' - KHNL News 8 Sunrise, KHNL News 8 Today

Sports

★ 'Reid Shimizu'

Reporters

★ 'Diane Ako' - Anchor/Reporter

★ 'Marvin Buenconsejo' - Anchor/Reporter

★ 'Cindy Cha' - Web Producer/Reporter

★ 'Mari-Ela David'

★ 'Paul Drewes' - Anchor/Reporter

★ 'Stephen Florino'

★ 'Beth Hillyer'

★ 'Angela Keen' - Reporter / Hawaii Healthcast Reporter

★ 'Leland Kim'

★ 'Walter Makaula' - Anchor/Reporter

★ 'Roger Mari'

★ 'Mary Simms'

★ 'Minna Sugimoto'

KHNL News 8 Past Personalities

★ 'Dan Cooke' (Weeknight Anchor; Weather Anchor; helped launch first KHNL newscast)

★ 'Robert Kekaula' (Weeknight Sports Anchor; helped launch first KHNL newscast) - Currently with KITV-TV

★ 'Jodi Leong' (Weeknight Anchor) - Currently with KITV-TV

★ 'Heidi Umbhau' (Weeknight Anchor; Healthcast Reporter)

★ 'Lee Cataluna' (Morning Anchor; Weeknight Anchor; Reporter) - Currently with The Honolulu Advertiser

★ 'Lyle Galdeira' (Morning Anchor; Fill-In Anchor; Reporter; ''Cheap Eats''; ''Does it Work?'')

★ 'Barbara Wallace' (5PM Anchor; KFVE News at 9 Anchor; Morning Anchor; Reporter)

★ 'Erin Brown' (Weather Anchor)

★ 'Guy Hagi' (Morning Weather Anchor) - Currently with KGMB-TV

★ 'Maria Quiban' (Weather Anchor) - Currently with KCOP-TV, Los Angeles, CA

★ 'Vince Gerasole' (Weekend Anchor; Reporter) - Currently with WBBM-TV, Chicago, IL

★ 'Russell Yamanoha' (Sports Director & Anchor)

★ 'Rod Antone' (Reporter)

★ 'Brooks Baehr' (Reporter) - Currently with KGMB-TV

★ 'Sharon Chen' (Reporter) - Currently with XETV-TV, San Diego, CA

★ 'Danielle De Longe' (Reporter)

★ 'Linda Hosek' (Reporter) - Currently with Honolulu Star-Bulletin

★ 'Lisa Kubota' (Reporter) - Currently with KGMB-TV

★ 'Patti Lee' (Reporter)

★ 'Julie Ogata' (Reporter)

★ 'Darren Pai' (Chief Political Reporter)

★ 'Cindy Paliracio' (Reporter; Healthcast Reporter)

★ 'Audrey Port' (Reporter)

★ 'Su Shin' (Reporter)

★ 'Glenn Wakai' (Reporter)

★ 'Nancy Weiner' (Reporter)

Relay Stations

★ KHBC Channel 2 (Digital Channel 22) Hilo

★ KOGG Channel 15 (Digital Channel 16) Wailuku

★ K65BV Channel 65 Lihue

External links

★ KHNL NBC 8

★ KHNL-TV History

★ Raycom Media

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