KORL FM Honolulu signs on
Jul 3, 2007 21:25:14 GMT -5
Post by reception on Jul 3, 2007 21:25:14 GMT -5
From 100000watts Monday July 2 2007
KLHI 101.1 Lahaina HI changes calls to KORL-FM and flips to ethnic Hawaiian; the "Point FM" modern rock format and KLHI calls move to new 92.5 Kahului HI, which had had the KORL calls as a construction permit.
I can hear the new KLHI 92.5 just east of Kaimuki. KORL FM 101.1 has a good signal but the quality of the sound is quite noisy. The article doesn't mention KXRG-LP 101.1 being displaced.
KLHI 101.1 Lahaina HI changes calls to KORL-FM and flips to ethnic Hawaiian; the "Point FM" modern rock format and KLHI calls move to new 92.5 Kahului HI, which had had the KORL calls as a construction permit.
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
By Erika Engle
Star Bulletin
Oahu gets new FM station; Maui rock station rolls down the dial
OAHU has a new FM radio station, KORL-FM 101.1, which signed on at 4 p.m. Sunday.
The mainstay of the station will be Japanese-language programming mixed with Hawaiian music from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, provided by Ikuko Tomita's LTN Hawaii Ltd.
She broadcast her first show on KORL-FM, also simulcast on sister station KORL-AM 1180, live from the Pacific Beach Hotel.
The AM signal was clearer than the FM signal, but that will be rapidly rectified by engineer Kevin Douglas, said Jim Carroll, business manager for Kauai-based Hochman Hawaii-Three Inc., which owns the station.
Tomita was a director of Hawaii-based International Communications Corp., the now-defunct company that owned KJPN-AM 940 starting in 1994. She has been associated with Japanese-language programming on other stations, branded as Radio K-Japan, since KJPN was sold in 2002.
KORL-FM will play smooth jazz when the K-Japan programming is not on the air and will discontinue the AM simulcast after about a week, Carroll said.
The live broadcast yesterday morning was the culmination of a $520,000 deal in which Maui-based Pacific Radio Group Inc. agreed to swap the frequency of KLHI-FM 101.1 on Oahu for Hochman's then-unbuilt KORL-FM 92.5 on Maui, though each company was to keep its call letters.
Pacific Radio avoided having a new competitor move into its market and got $520K, while Hochman got 101.1 MHz, Oahu's last full-power, 100,000-watt FM allotment, President George Hochman said at the time.
MEANWHILE back on Maui, KLHI began airing "make the switch" promotional announcements about two weeks ago, to alert listeners to the frequency swap, said President Chuck Bergson.
It hired an afternoon-drive guy by the name of Jo Jo -- and a rebranded KLHI-FM 92.5 signed on at midnight Friday, Bergson said.
Now called X-ninety-two-five, "where Maui rocks," the station is having fun with the letter "x," giving away XBox video game consoles, promoting listener blogs called X-files and something called triple-x fantasy, but it shouldn't put anyone's knickers in a knot.
"It's just an attention grabber," involving a triple-play of songs, Bergson chuckled.
By Erika Engle
Star Bulletin
Oahu gets new FM station; Maui rock station rolls down the dial
OAHU has a new FM radio station, KORL-FM 101.1, which signed on at 4 p.m. Sunday.
The mainstay of the station will be Japanese-language programming mixed with Hawaiian music from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, provided by Ikuko Tomita's LTN Hawaii Ltd.
She broadcast her first show on KORL-FM, also simulcast on sister station KORL-AM 1180, live from the Pacific Beach Hotel.
The AM signal was clearer than the FM signal, but that will be rapidly rectified by engineer Kevin Douglas, said Jim Carroll, business manager for Kauai-based Hochman Hawaii-Three Inc., which owns the station.
Tomita was a director of Hawaii-based International Communications Corp., the now-defunct company that owned KJPN-AM 940 starting in 1994. She has been associated with Japanese-language programming on other stations, branded as Radio K-Japan, since KJPN was sold in 2002.
KORL-FM will play smooth jazz when the K-Japan programming is not on the air and will discontinue the AM simulcast after about a week, Carroll said.
The live broadcast yesterday morning was the culmination of a $520,000 deal in which Maui-based Pacific Radio Group Inc. agreed to swap the frequency of KLHI-FM 101.1 on Oahu for Hochman's then-unbuilt KORL-FM 92.5 on Maui, though each company was to keep its call letters.
Pacific Radio avoided having a new competitor move into its market and got $520K, while Hochman got 101.1 MHz, Oahu's last full-power, 100,000-watt FM allotment, President George Hochman said at the time.
MEANWHILE back on Maui, KLHI began airing "make the switch" promotional announcements about two weeks ago, to alert listeners to the frequency swap, said President Chuck Bergson.
It hired an afternoon-drive guy by the name of Jo Jo -- and a rebranded KLHI-FM 92.5 signed on at midnight Friday, Bergson said.
Now called X-ninety-two-five, "where Maui rocks," the station is having fun with the letter "x," giving away XBox video game consoles, promoting listener blogs called X-files and something called triple-x fantasy, but it shouldn't put anyone's knickers in a knot.
"It's just an attention grabber," involving a triple-play of songs, Bergson chuckled.
I can hear the new KLHI 92.5 just east of Kaimuki. KORL FM 101.1 has a good signal but the quality of the sound is quite noisy. The article doesn't mention KXRG-LP 101.1 being displaced.
Energy 101 Forced Off The Air By Full Power Commercial Station
June 30th, 2007 marked the final broadcast day of Energy 101 in its current form.
It is a very sad day for us and all those fans and lovers of dance music in Hawaii. For 16 months, since March 6th, 2006, Energy 101 has existed as the first and the only all dance radio station in Hawaii and one of only less than 10 nationwide. We were also the only Low Power FM to have ever existed on Oahu. A full power commercial station which shares our frequency on Maui has successfully petitioned the FCC for this channel on Oahu. The new 101.1 began broadcasting on July 1st, 2007. They are able to do this because Low Power FM's are not protected by the FCC and must give way to full power commercial radio stations. We must be at least 3 clicks away from any other station. The only available channel on Oahu at this time is 101.1 under current LPFM restrictions. There is a bill before congress to remove this restriction. If this happens, we may be able to come back on a new channel. We will keep you posted on this as details develop.
We came on the air initially as a low power community radio station because this was the only feasible way to bring dance music to Hawaii's airwaves without spending a million bucks. We were able to maintain the station on an extremely limited budget leveraging technology to cut costs. In fact, with the wonderful donations of a few very generous listeners, we were almost breaking even each month. This was achieved with no fundraising and no major on air solicitations or interruptions in the nonstop dance music. A huge THANK YOU goes out to all those who supported this station thus far. However, the pursuit for dance music on Hawaii's airwaves is not over.
June 30th, 2007 marked the final broadcast day of Energy 101 in its current form.
It is a very sad day for us and all those fans and lovers of dance music in Hawaii. For 16 months, since March 6th, 2006, Energy 101 has existed as the first and the only all dance radio station in Hawaii and one of only less than 10 nationwide. We were also the only Low Power FM to have ever existed on Oahu. A full power commercial station which shares our frequency on Maui has successfully petitioned the FCC for this channel on Oahu. The new 101.1 began broadcasting on July 1st, 2007. They are able to do this because Low Power FM's are not protected by the FCC and must give way to full power commercial radio stations. We must be at least 3 clicks away from any other station. The only available channel on Oahu at this time is 101.1 under current LPFM restrictions. There is a bill before congress to remove this restriction. If this happens, we may be able to come back on a new channel. We will keep you posted on this as details develop.
We came on the air initially as a low power community radio station because this was the only feasible way to bring dance music to Hawaii's airwaves without spending a million bucks. We were able to maintain the station on an extremely limited budget leveraging technology to cut costs. In fact, with the wonderful donations of a few very generous listeners, we were almost breaking even each month. This was achieved with no fundraising and no major on air solicitations or interruptions in the nonstop dance music. A huge THANK YOU goes out to all those who supported this station thus far. However, the pursuit for dance music on Hawaii's airwaves is not over.