KAAH
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Honolulu, Hawaii United States |
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| Channels |
Digital: 27 (UHF) Virtual: 26 () |
| Subchannels | 26.1 TBN 26.2 Church Channel 26.3 JUCE TV/Smile of a Child 26.4 TBN Enlace USA 26.5 TBN Salsa |
| Affiliations | TBN (O&O; 1996–present) |
| Owner |
Trinity Broadcasting Network, Inc. (Trinity Broadcasting Network) |
| First air date | December 23, 1982 |
| Call letters' meaning |
All American TV Honolulu (former owners 1996–2003) |
| Former callsigns | KSHO-TV (1982–1986) KMGT (1986–1992) KOBN (1992–1996) KAAH (1996–2003) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 26 (UHF, 1982–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Independent (1982–1990) HSN (1990–1996) |
| Transmitter power | 262 kW |
| Height | 580 m |
| Facility ID | 3246 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 21°23′34″N 158°5′48″W / 21.39278°N 158.09667°W |
| Website | www.tbn.org |
KAAH-TV, virtual channel 26 (UHF digital channel 27), is a TBN owned-and-operated television station located in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. KAAH's studios are located on Smith Street in downtown Honolulu, and its transmitter is located on Palehua Ridge, north of Makakilo. KAAH-TV programming can also be seen on Oceanic Cable channel 26 statewide (with the exception of Hawai'i Island (the "Big Island"), where KAAH is not available on cable at all.
KAAH signed on the air December 23, 1982 under the call letters KSHO-TV, as Hawaii's first television station operating on the UHF band. Originally operating as a general entertainment independent station, the station offered a lineup of cartoons, sitcoms, drama series and movies during its early years. The station also aired Asian programming, primarily on weekends. In its early days, it carried business news programming from Financial News Network, ethnic programming from the International Television Network, and carried ABC, CBS, and NBC programs that KITV (channel 4), KGMB (then on channel 9, now on channel 5) and KHON-TV (channel 2) chose to decline; programming from ABC's daytime lineup that was pre-empted by KITV was the most visible on KSHO's schedule.
At the same time that channel 26 launched, the station would get more competition when KIKU (channel 13, now KHNL), which had a part-English/part-Japanese programming schedule up until 1980 when it reverted to an English language general entertainment format but retained some Asian language programs airing during the day, began adding more English-language programming and moved most of its Japanese programming to Sundays in an effort to be more competitive with KSHO. That would later be followed by the debuts of four additional stations that also added English-language first-run programming at the time: KHAI-TV (channel 20, now KIKU, no relation to the present-day KHNL that once bore those call letters) in 1983, KWHE (channel 14) and KBFD (channel 32) in 1986, and KFVE (then on channel 5, now on channel 9) in 1987. In between that period, channel 26 changed its call letters to KMGT in 1986. From 1986 to 1990, the station was branded as "K-Magic" – and even carried Los Angeles Lakers basketball games featuring Magic Johnson (who, in one promo for "K-Magic", said, "What a great name for a TV station!").
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