KHNL

KHNL, virtual channel 13 (UHF digital channel 35), is an NBC-affiliated television station located in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. The station is owned by Raycom Media, as part of a duopoly with CBS affiliate KGMB (channel 5); Raycom also operates MyNetworkTV affiliate KFVE (channel 9) under a shared services agreement with owner MCG Capital Corporation. All three stations share studios on Waiakamilo Road in downtown Honolulu, KGMB's transmitter is located in Palehua.

Syndicated programming on KHNL includes Modern Family, Right This Minute, The Doctors and CSI: Miami.

History

The first Channel 13 (KHVH-TV 1957-59)

On May 5, 1957, Kaiser Broadcasting signed on the first independent station in Hawaii with the call letters KHVH (to match its AM sister station and its reference to the Hawaiian Village Hotel at the time), taking the channel 13 VHF position. KHVH was the first station to bring color television to Hawaii, and at the time was billed as a movie station (its first on-air program was 30 Seconds over Tokyo at 7 p.m., then signed off afterwards upon the film's completion), boasting a large motion picture library from MGM and Warner Bros., along with cartoons from Warner's animation library, serials, short subjects, and educational films produced by Encyclopædia Britannica. This made up a majority of its programming schedule, with 3 or 4 movies airing from 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. daily, depending on the length of the film.