| Honolulu, Hawaii | |
|---|---|
| Branding | KFVE (general) (pronounced as "K5") Hawaii News Now (newscasts) |
| Channels | Digital: 22 (UHF) Virtual: 9 (PSIP) |
| Subchannels | 9.1 MyNetworkTV |
| Owner | MCG Capital Corporation (operated through SSA by Raycom Media) (HITV License Subsidiary, Inc.) |
| First air date | February 7, 1988 |
| Call letters' meaning | channel FiVE (former analog channel and current cable channel) |
| Sister station(s) | KHNL KGMB |
| Former channel number(s) | Analog: 5 (VHF, 1988-2009) Digital: 23 (UHF, until October 2009) |
| Former affiliations | Independent (1988-1995) UPN (1995-2002) The WB (secondary 1999-2002, primary 2002-2006) |
| Transmitter power | 40 kW |
| Height | 629 m |
| Facility ID | 36917 |
| Website | [1] [2] |
KFVE is the MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station for the state of Hawaii that is licensed to Honolulu. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 22 from a transmitter in Palehua. The station is owned by MCG Capital Corporation, which gained ownership through a shared services agreement with Raycom Media, the owner/operator of NBC affiliate KHNL and CBS affiliate KGMB, in which KFVE moved from PSIP channel 5 to channel 9 (KGMB's former on-air home). All three stations share studios on Waiakamilo Road in downtown Honolulu. Syndicated programming on KFVE includes Family Guy, The King of Queens, Judge Joe Brown, and Grace Under Fire.
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To expand its signal and rebroadcast programs outside of metropolitan Honolulu, KFVE operates three outlying repeaters.
| Call letters | Channel | City of license | Transmitter location |
|---|---|---|---|
| K27DW | 27 | Wailuku | summit of Haleakala |
| K45CT | 45 | Hilo | northeast of Mauna Loa summit |
| K63DZ | 63 | Kailua Kona | northwest of Hualalai summit |
KFVE signed-on February 7, 1988 as the final VHF station in the market. Originally, KFVE focused on low-budget programming such as Hawaii Five-O repeats. Later under the moniker "Hawaii is Watching us Grow", it focused on movies and syndicated fare. As a small-time independent station, it had to rely on low-budget programming and Japanese television dramas (most of which were later carried on the independent KIKU television network) through much of its early existence. That all changed in 1993 when another local station, KHNL (then a Fox affiliate owned by the Providence Journal Company), took over management of KFVE through a local marketing agreement (LMA). The latter station then merged its operations into KHNL's facility. It was the first such local market sharing organization in the country. After KHNL took over oversight of this station in the mid-1990s, coverage of University of Hawaii athletics moved over to KFVE which re-branded as "The Home Team".
On January 16, 1995, the station became a charter affiliate of UPN under the name "K-5 UPN Hawaii". On December 28, 1998, it became a secondary WB affiliate with the addition of programming from that network. Previously, The WB was carried throughout Hawaii on KWHE. KFVE was acquired outright by Raycom Media on December 31, 1999. Raycom had purchased KHNL and the LMA with KFVE from Belo Corporation two months earlier. On September 2, 2002, this station dropped its affiliation with UPN and became a primary WB affiliate. The station re-branded itself as "K-5, The Home Team: Hawaii's WB". In the Honolulu market, UPN programming moved to KHON-TV and KGMB, which both carried secondary affiliations with the network from 2002 to 2004.
On March 7, 2006, Raycom Media announced that KFVE would affiliate with MyNetworkTV as part of a group deal involving many of Raycom-owned affiliates of The WB and UPN (whose consolidation and shutdowns the following September resulted in the birth of The CW Television Network, which would affiliate in Hawaii with a digital subchannel of KHON). KFVE officially joined MyNetworkTV on September 5 and did not air The WB's final two weeks of prime-time programming (though it did air WB daytime and Saturday morning programming until the network's end).
On January 15, 2009, DirecTV was transferred from KFVE's analog to its digital and high definition signals due to the analog shutdown. The HD signal of KFVE was pulled off DirecTV on January 16 due to unknown reasons. The station has since been restored on the satellite system with a standard definition digital signal. It left channel 5 and moved to channel 23 when the analog to digital transition was completed. However, it continues to display its PSIP virtual channel as 5.
On August 18, 2009, Raycom Media announced that it would enter into a shared services agreement with MCG Capital Corporation (owner of CBS affiliate KGMB) in which the operations of that station, KFVE, and KHNL would be combined. The SSA also moved KFVE and its programming move from PSIP channel 5 to channel 9 under MCG ownership while KGMB moved from 9 to 5 and fall under Raycom's ownership. (The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) only recognizes ownership of facility ID's and not station call signs or intellectual property, allowing MCG Capital to gain ownership of KFVE and Raycom ownership of KGMB during the swap.)[1][2] The channel swap took effect with the SSA on October 26, 2009, as KFVE moved from 5 to 9 and changed its on-air branding from "K-5" to simply "KFVE."
Unlike most affiliates, KFVE only uses its network logo to promote MyNetworkTV programming in a similar way to WXSP-CA in Grand Rapids, Michigan which uses the branding "The X" and a "MyNetworkTV WXSP" logo. KFVE's local logo is used at all other times such as when promoting sitcom repeats or news. It clears all MyNetworkTV programming except for the occasional pre-emption in order to broadcast local sports or other special events. KFVE will delay MyNetworkTV programming until the weekends in order to broadcast these sporting events as the station once did with shows from UPN and The WB. Because MyNetworkTV airs twelve hours of programming per week, syndicated programming such as talk, game, and courtroom shows makes up a vast portion of KFVE's weekday schedule especially during the daytime.
Movies are also a regular part of its weekend afternoon schedule. KFVE does not sign-off choosing to air late night and early morning infomercials. It is also home to the most complete and comprehensive college sports package in the country as the station showcases more than 100 University of Hawaii sports events annually. Sports covered on KFVE include football, men's and women's volleyball, men's and women's basketball, baseball, softball, and women's soccer. KFVE (since 1994) and sister station KHNL (1984–1993) have been the home of University of Hawaii sports in the islands for over two decades. This station has said that it plans to broadcast home games in high definition beginning in August 2009 on pay-per-view. KFVE did state that Wahine Volleyball, Warrior Basketball and Warrior Football are the sports that will be covered in HD. Events that are not on a pay-per-view basis are not broadcasted in HD.
On April 17, 1995, KHNL launched a prime time newscast at 9 p.m. that was simulcasted on KFVE. This was dropped on August 3, 1997. On October 18, 2004, prime time news was re-launchged on KFVE, again produced by KHNL. On January 7, 2008, this station launched an additional news show produced by that station that airs weeknights at 6:30. Beginning on December 20, KFVE and KHNL began broadcasting their local news in high definition.
The shared services agreement resulted in the termination of all but four KHNL on-air staff and all of KHNL's morning show technicians when its newsroom merged with KGMB on October 26, 2009 when they began their simulcast.[3] The two stations began to jointly produce and simulcast a weeknight 5 and 10 o'clock newscasts while KHNL moved their 6 P.M. show to 5:30. KGMB continues to have its own weeknight 6 o'clock newscast. The only times when they don't simulcast is during the 7AM hour when KHNL starts airing NBC's Today Show, 5:30PM when KGMB airs The CBS Evening News, and at 6PM when KHNL airs The NBC Nightly News. Weekday morning and weekend shows are simulcasted on the two but can be preempted on one station due to network obligations. The local news schedule on KFVE-TV remains unchanged. There is no weekday midday news on either station.[4]
Hawaii News Now: Sunrise at 8 (Weekday mornings 8 to 9 A.M.)
Hawaii News Now at 6:30 (Weeknights 6:30 to 7 p.m.)
Hawaii News Now at 9 (9 to 9:30 p.m.)
Weeknights
Weekends
Cheap Eats (Wednesdays on KFVE-TV)
Additional news personnel are used from KGMB-TV and KHNL-TV. See each article for a complete listing.
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