KFVE
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Honolulu, Hawaii United States |
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| Branding | KFVE (general) (Pronounced as K-5) Hawaii News Now (newscasts) |
| Slogan |
The Home Team Your Source for Breaking News (Hawaii News Now) |
| Channels |
Digital: 22 (UHF) Virtual: 9 () |
| Subchannels | 9.1 MyNetworkTV |
| Affiliations | MyNetworkTV (2006–present) |
| Owner | MCG Capital Corporation (Sale to American Spirit Media pending) (HITV License Subsidiary, Inc.) |
| Operator | Raycom Media |
| First air date | February 7, 1988 |
| Call letters' meaning | channel FiVE (former analog channel and current cable channel) |
| Sister station(s) | KGMB, KHNL |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 5 (VHF, 1988–2009) Digital: 23 (UHF), until October 2009) Virtual: 5 (PSIP, until 2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Independent (1988–1995) UPN (1995–2002) The WB (1999–2006; secondary until 2002) |
| Transmitter power | 40 kW |
| Height | 629 m |
| Facility ID | 36917 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 21°23′52″N 158°6′0″W / 21.39778°N 158.10000°W |
| Website | www.k5thehometeam.com |
The Home Team
KFVE, channel 9, is a MyNetworkTV-affiliated television station located in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. The station is owned by MCG Capital Corporation; Raycom Media, which owns CBS affiliate KGMB (channel 5) and NBC affiliate KHNL (channel 13), operates KFVE under a shared services agreement. All three stations share studios on Waiakamilo Road in downtown Honolulu, KFVE's transmitter is located in Palehua, Hawaii.
KFVE discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 5, on January 15, 2009, the date in which full-power television stations in Hawaii transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts (six months earlier than the June 12 transition date for stations on the U.S. mainland). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 23, using to display the station's virtual channel as its former VHF analog channel 5. Following the channel swap with KGMB, the station's digital channel switched to UHF channel 22 and its virtual channel to 9.
As with other major television stations in Hawaii, KFVE operates multiple satellite stations across the Hawaiian Islands to rebroadcast the station's programming outside of metropolitan Honolulu. The stations formerly broadcast programming from KGMB until the 2009 station swap between KGMB and KFVE, at which point the stations began broadcasting KFVE programming.
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KFVE signed on the air on February 7, 1988, broadcasting on channel 5, 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, and by 1990 acquired programs from KMGT (channel 26, now KAAH) before its format switch to religious programming. 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 independent station KIKU, channel 20) 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). KFVE 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 the station in the mid-1990s, coverage of University of Hawaii athletics moved over to KFVE, which rebranded as "The Home Team". The "K-5" logo and the slogan were borrowed from KHNL's sister station in Seattle, WA, KING-TV.
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