Hawaii News Now
| Hawaii News Now | |
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| Genre | News program |
| Presented by | see below |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Honolulu, Hawaii, United States |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | Varies depending on newscast |
| Release | |
| Original network |
KGMB, KFVE and KHNL (primary) KBFD (Partnership deal for its Korean newscasts) |
| Picture format |
1080i (HDTV) 480i (SDTV) |
| Original release | October 26, 2009 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Hawaii News Now (also abbreviated as HNN) is the name of the news department shared by three television stations in Honolulu, Hawaii: CBS affiliate KGMB (channel 7), MyNetworkTV affiliate KFVE (channel 5) and NBC affiliate KHNL (channel 8). The newscasts are produced by Raycom Media, which owns KGMB and KHNL and operates KFVE (owned by MCG Capital Corporation) through a shared services agreement. It also has a partnership with KBFD, which uses KGMB's taped on the field stories during KBFD's 11 p.m Korean-language newscast with Korean language subtitles.
KGMB's news department started shortly after it signed on the air in 1952, and had the highest-rated of the Honolulu market's newscasts for most of its first 25 years; after sports director Joe Moore joined KHON-TV (channel 2) in 1978, KHON overtook KGMB for the lead, with KGMB's newscasts placing either second or third in the ratings for the next three decades. KHNL had run newscasts intermittently since signing on as independent station KTRG in 1962, it formed its longest-running news department to date in April 1995 as a Fox affiliate with the launch of a 9 p.m. newscast (that was simulcast on KFVE until January 1996, when it became exclusive to the latter station); KHNL added newscasts at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. during the summer and fall of 1995, with the addition of a weekday morning newscast after it joined NBC on January 1, 1996.
The origins of the three stations sharing their resources stemmed from the August 18, 2009 announcement that MCG Capital Corporation (then-owner of KGMB) and Raycom Media (owner of KHNL and, at the time, KFVE) had entered into a shared services agreement with Raycom as the senior partner. The combined operation was based at the KHNL/KFVE studios on Waiakamilo Road in Honolulu; KGMB vacated its longtime home on Kapiolani Boulevard. Though non-news programming would remain in place, the three stations would have a single news department dominated by former KGMB personalities. The arrangement also saw a channel swap, with the KGMB intellectual unit (call letters, CBS affiliation and programming) moving from channel 9 (UHF digital channel 23) to channel 5 (UHF digital channel 22) and the KFVE intellectual unit (including its MyNetworkTV affiliation) moving from 5 to 9.
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