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  Station Logo
  Station Slogan Island Television
  Analog 4 ( VHF )
  Station Branding ''KITV 4: Island Television''
  Digital 40 ( UHF )
  Affiliations ABC <br> The AccuWeather Channel (DT2)
  Founded 1954
  Location Honolulu, Hawaii
  Owner Hearst-Argyle
  Callsign Meaning '''K'''<br>'''I'''sland<br>'''T'''ele'''v'''ision
  Former Callsigns KULA-TV (1954-60)<br>KHVH (1960-1970s)
  Former Affiliations None
  Effective Radiated Power 100 kW Analog<br>85 kW Digital
  Homepage wwwthehawaiichannelcom


KITV is the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television affiliate Licensed to Honolulu, Hawaii . Based in Honolulu and broadcasting on channel 4, the station is currently owned by Hearst-Argyle Television and operates several satellites and translators on all the major Hawaiian Islands to rebroadcast programs outside of metropolitan Honolulu. Its main transmitter is located in Honolulu. It brands itself as '' KITV 4 Island Television''. The station is also seen on Oceanic Cable channel 6 throughout most of the state, with the exception of the eastern half of Hawaii Island, where it is instead seen on channel 12. The station also carries a weather information channel called ''Island Weather Now'' on its DT-2 Digital Subchannel , which carries programming from The AccuWeather Channel with local cut-ins by KITV weather anchors.


HISTORY

The station signed on the air in 1954 as KULA-TV, and changed its calls to KHVH by 1959 .

One of KITV's previous owners was Kaiser Broadcasting , which owned the station from 1958 to 1964; Kaiser sold the station in December 1964, to help fund its new chain of independent stations on the mainland.

KITV adopted its current calls in the 1970s to reflect its service of broadcasting to the Hawaiian Islands.

Shamrock Broadcasting acquired KITV in 1984 , then sold it to Tak Communications in 1987 . Tak would declare Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in 1991 , and was later taken over by a group of creditors. In 1995 , rumors circulated that it would join NBC when KHON-TV (which had been Hawaii's NBC affiliate for 43 years (1953-1996) decided to join Fox during the "Big Network Switch" Of 1994-96. However, later in 1995 , Argyle Television bought KITV and then-sister station WGRZ-TV in Buffalo, New York from Tak's creditors. In the end, KITV stayed with ABC, and NBC instead signed with KHNL as its new affiliate in 1996 .

When Argyle merged with Hearst in 1997 , KITV and its satellites became part of the newly-formed TV station group.

KITV also has an affiliation with CNN , which used KITV's live broadband stream to report on a 6.6 earthquake that struck off the northwestern coast of Hawaii County on October 15 , 2006 . Since KITV was the only station in Hawaii to air live coverage of the earthquake after the event (most other stations in Honolulu continued on with their normal morning programming), they also attracted a flood of phone calls and e-mails from people around the world trying to find out if their loved ones were alright. The live stream also attracted the attention of The Daily Show the following day ( October 16 ), thanks in part to a building manager mentioning via public address system that the building's bathrooms were still operational while the news anchors were still on the air. That clip can be seen on KITV's website TheHawaiiChannel.com .

KITV carries The AccuWeather Channel on its digital subchannel, branded as ''Island Weather Now'', which is also carried on Oceanic's Digital Channel 126. The channel features local weather, a news ticker, and live traffic cameras in addition to national programming provided by AccuWeather . KITV's competitor, KHNL , carries NBC Weather Plus on a digital subchannel, but they are not currently personalizing the feed for Hawaiʻi.

The station has been an ABC affiliate since its sign-on, making KITV one of the two major television stations in Honolulu that has never changed its network affiliation; local CBS outlet KGMB is the other.


PROGRAMMING

KITV clears all ABC programming except for '' Power Rangers '', which would otherwise air as part of the ABC Kids block. Most (if not all) ABC affiliates owned by Hearst-Argyle Television refuse to clear the show due to its lack of educational and informational content.

Unlike most ABC affiliates, KITV does not air the ABC Kids block on Saturdays. (The station airs infomercials in its place.) Instead, KITV airs three hours of the ABC Kids programming block over three weekdays (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday). On each of the three days, one hour (two shows) of the ABC Kids block is aired from 11 am-12 Noon local time, leading into ABC's daytime soap opera lineup.

When compared to other major network affiliates in Honolulu ( KHON , KFVE , KGMB and KHNL ), KITV airs a relatively small amount of syndicated programming outside of network hours. The only first-run syndicated shows currently aired on KITV are '' The Morning Show With Mike And Juliet '', '' The Ellen DeGeneres Show '' and '' Judge Judy ''. The only sitcom reruns seen on the station are those of '' Seinfeld '' and '' Will & Grace ''.

KITV is well known among Hawaii residents as the year-after-year presenter of the Merrie Monarch Festival , which is broadcast on the station live every April from Hilo . During this time, KITV usually pre-empts ABC primetime programs until the weekend.


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