KGMB
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| KGMB | |
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| Honolulu, Hawaii | |
| Branding | KGMB 9 |
| Slogan | Hawaii's Severe Weather Station |
| Channels | Analog: 9 (VHF) |
| Affiliations | CBS |
| Owner | HITV Operating Company, Inc. (HITV License Subsidiary, Inc.) |
| First air date | December 1, 1952 |
| Call letters’ meaning | George M. Bowls (first chief engineer of KGMB-AM) |
| Former callsigns | KGMB-TV (1952-1982) |
| Former affiliations | Both secondary: ABC (1952-1954) UPN (shared with KHON; 2002-2004) |
| Transmitter Power | 105 kW (analog) 1000 kW (digital) |
| Height | -12 m (analog) 9.2 m (digital) |
| Facility ID | 36917 |
| Transmitter Coordinates | (analog) (digital) |
| Website | www.kgmb9.com |
KGMB is the licensed broadcast affiliate of CBS in Hawaii, with its main transmitter located in Honolulu broadcasting on channel 9 (analog) and 22 (digital). The station is owned by HITV Operating Company, Inc. Like all major television stations in Hawaii, KGMB operates multiple satellite stations and translators across the Hawaiian Islands to rebroadcast programs outside of metropolitan Honolulu.
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[edit] History
KGMB was the first television station in Hawaii, airing its first programs on December 1, 1952. It was owned by a partnership of future congressman Cec Heftel, owner of KGMB-AM 590, and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin. It carried programming from all three major networks, but was a primary CBS affiliate owing to KGMB-AM's long affiliation with CBS Radio. NBC disappeared from the schedule when KONA-TV (now KHON-TV) signed on in 1953, and ABC went to KULA-TV (now KITV) signed on in 1954, leaving KGMB as a sole CBS affiliate.
Lee Enterprises bought KGMB-AM-TV in 1977. It sold off KGMB-AM in 1980; it is now KSSK-AM.
In 2000, Lee exited television and sold most of its television holdings, including KGMB, to Emmis Communications. Emmis already owned KHON-TV, and KHON moved its studios to KGMB's facility. As Emmis itself prepared to exit the television industry, it sold KHON to Montecito Broadcast Group in 2006. On February 20, 2007 Emmis announced that KGMB and its satellites have been sold to HITV Operating Company, Inc. (a subsidiary of MCG Capital), for $40 million. [1] The FCC granted approval for this sale in late May 2007, and the sale was completed on June 4.
From 2002 to 2004, KGMB carried select programming from the now-defunct UPN television network as a secondary affiliation. In the Honolulu market, KFVE previously was a UPN affiliate from 1995 until 2002, when the station decided to drop UPN and switch its primary affiliation to The WB. KGMB was one of two stations that aired UPN programming on a secondary basis in Hawaii during this period; KHON was the other. KIKU-TV picked up secondary UPN affiliation in the fall of 2004.
For many years, KGMB called itself One of the Good Things About Hawaii with its rich history of local television programming exclusively in Hawaii. Now with an emphasis on weather, the station brands itself Hawaii's Severe Weather Station.
Shortly after HITV took over, KGMB tweaked their logo and introduced a new on-air news set and graphics package. They also redesigned its website.
[edit] Programming
KGMB clears all CBS programming, although the station will occasionally pre-empt CBS primetime shows until late nights in order to broadcast local events.
From September 2005 to August 2007, KGMB aired the nationally syndicated weekday morning news show The Daily Buzz every Monday through Friday from 5-7 am. (Although The Daily Buzz was/is a three-hour show, KGMB only aired the first two hours.) During this period it was the only "Big Three" affiliate in the United States carrying the show. The station dropped the show after its August 17, 2007 edition to make room for KGMB's new morning newscast titled Sunrise on KGMB9, which launched on September 17. The Daily Buzz moved to KHON's CW digital subchannel "Hawaii's CW 93" the following Monday, August 20. Ironically, the show competes with KHON's own "Hawaii's Morning News" program.
KGMB airs CBS' daytime soap operas in a radically different order from the main network feed; specifically, The Bold and the Beautiful (11:30 am), Guiding Light (12 Noon), The Young and the Restless (1 pm), and As the World Turns (2 pm). In most other markets, Y&R is aired first, followed by B&B, ATWT and GL.
On weekdays (outside of network hours), KGMB airs the syndicated first-run shows Jeopardy!, Rachael Ray, and The Insider during the daytime, and reruns of the sitcoms Frasier and One on One during the late night hours.
[edit] Logos
 Most current KGMB9 logo; August 2007 - present |
 New KGMB9 News logo; August 2007 - present |
 "Sunrise on KGMB9" Morning News logo; September 2007 - present |
 KGMB9.com logo; September 2007 - present |
 KGMB 1990s logo |
 KGMB logo from 2004 - 2007 (similar to logo used in 70s and early 80s) |
[edit] High-definition TV
KGMB-DT currently broadcasts in 1080i on channel 9.1. Live-action events such as NFL and college basketball games are thus available in high-definition to Honolulu residents. Recently, KGMB also upgraded its servers to time-shift high-definition programming including CSI Miami, The Unit and The Late Show with David Letterman. The shows, which are received from the mainland in the afternoon, were previously recorded in standard definition before being rebroadcast in the evening.
On January 14, 2008 KGMB's HD channel became available on Oceanic Time Warner Cable on channel 1007.[1] Prior to that date KGMB was the only station of the "Big 4" not available in HD on Oceanic. A temporary agreement was reached between KGMB and Oceanic Time Warner to carry Super Bowl XLI in high-definition.[2]
[edit] KGMB9 News Anchors & Reporters
[edit] KGMB9 News Anchors
[edit] KGMB9 Weather
[edit] KGMB9 Traffic
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[edit] KGMB9 Sports
[edit] KGMB9 Reporters
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[edit] Well-Known Former KGMB9 Anchors & Reporters
- Linda Coble (Anchor; Reporter)
- Wayne Collins (Anchor - First Anchor at KGMB9)
- Bob Jones (Anchor; Reporter; News Director)
- Jade Moon (Anchor; Reporter)
- Bob Sevey (Anchor; News Director)
- Russell Shimooka (Anchor; Reporter)
- Tim Tindall (Anchor)
- Leslie Wilcox (Anchor; Reporter) - Currently President & CEO of KHET-TV
- Teri Okita (5 p.m. Anchor; Reporter) - Currently with CBS News
- Dave Carlin (Weekend Anchor; Reporter) - Currently with WCBS-TV, New York, NY
- Sandra Sagisi (Moser) (Weekend Anchor; Morning Anchor; Reporter and Weekend Weather)
- Aloha Taylor (Weather Anchor) - Currently with XETV-TV, San Diego, CA
- Larry Beil (Sports Anchor) - Currently with KGO-TV, San Francisco, CA
- Scott Culbertson (Sports Anchor)
- Neil Everett (Sports Anchor) - Currently with ESPN
- Russ Francis (Sports Anchor)
- Jim Leahy (Sports Anchor)
- Joe Moore (Sports Anchor) - Currently with KHON-TV
- Gary Sprinkle (Sports Anchor; Reporter) - Currently with KITV-TV
- Dave Vinton (Sports Anchor)
- Sabrina Hall (Reporter) - Currently with KIII-TV, Corpus Christi, TX
- Angela Keen (Reporter; Fill-In Anchor and Weather Anchor; Health Reporter)
- Louise Kim McCoy (Reporter)
- Alan Lu (Reporter) - Now with the Honolulu Police Department.
- Cedric Moon (Reporter)
- Lara Yamada (Reporter) - Currently with KCPQ-TV, Seattle/Tacoma, WA
[edit] Satellite stations
These stations, in addition to translators K57BI in Waimea and K69BZ in Lihue, rebroadcast KGMB's signal throughout Hawaii:
| Station | City of license | Channels (Analog/ Digital) |
First air date | ERP (Analog/ Digital) |
HAAT (Analog/ Digital) |
Facility ID | Transmitter Coordinates |
| KGMD-TV1 | Hilo | 9 (VHF) 8 (VHF) |
May 15, 1955 | 10 kW 3.2 kW |
-89 m -89 m |
36914 | |
| KGMV2 | Wailuku | 3 (VHF) 24 (UHF) |
April 24, 1955 | 14.1 kW 72.4 kW |
1814 m 1814 m |
36920 |
Notes:
- 1. KGMD-TV used the callsign KPUA-TV from its 1955 sign-on until either 1975 or 1976.
- 2. KGMV used the callsign KMAU-TV from its 1955 sign-on until either 1976 or 1977.
[edit] References
- ^ "Oceanic Time Warner Cable digital channel lineup
- ^ "Super news in time for Super Bowl"February 2, 2007
[edit] External links
- KGMB 9's Website
- TV Guide: Hawaii Edition - old station logos
- HD Hawaii
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KGMB
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KGMD-TV
- Query the FCC's TV station database for KGMV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KGMB-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KGMD-TV
- BIAfn's Media Web Database -- Information on KGMV-TV
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