KITV
 
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Honolulu, Hawaii United States |
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| Branding | KITV 4 (general) KITV Island News (newscasts) |
| Slogan | More Local, Most Complete |
| Channels |
Digital: 40 (UHF) Virtual: 4 () |
| Subchannels | 4.1 ABC 4.2 MeTV |
| Affiliations | ABC (Secondary through 1955) |
| Owner |
SJL Broadcasting (KITV, Inc.) |
| First air date | April 16, 1954 |
| Call letters' meaning | Island TeleVision |
| Former callsigns | KABS-TV (CP: 1953-1954) KULA-TV (1954–1959) KHVH-TV (1959–1973) |
| Former channel number(s) |
Analog: 4 (VHF, 1954–2009) |
| Former affiliations |
Secondary: DuMont (1954–1955) |
| Transmitter power | 85 kW |
| Height | 1 m |
| Facility ID | 64548 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 21°17′25.4″N 157°50′24″W / 21.290389°N 157.84000°W |
| Licensing authority | FCC |
| Public license information: |
Profile CDBS |
| Website | www.kitv.com |
KITV, virtual channel 4 (UHF digital channel 40), is an ABC-affiliated television station located in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. The station is owned by SJL Broadcasting. KITV's studios are located on South King Street in downtown Honolulu, and its main transmitter is located on Palehua Ridge, north of Makakilo.
The station is also carried on Oceanic Spectrum channel 4 throughout most of the state, except for Oahu, where it is available on channel 6. It is also on channel 4 on Hawaiian Telcom statewide. The station operates several satellite stations and translators on all the major Hawaiian Islands to rebroadcast programs outside of metropolitan Honolulu.
The station signed on the air on April 16, 1954, as KULA-TV, launching at 10:30 a.m. with a test pattern, followed by its inaugural sign-on premiere party at 6 p.m., and two movies from 7 p.m. to 9:45 p.m. Prior to its launch, it had planned to use the call letters KABS-TV before settling on the KULA calls, which came from its then sister AM station under the ownership of Pacific Frontier Broadcasting Company, whose owner Jack A. Burnett had applied for a TV license to operate KULA on channel 2 as the channel 4 allocation was being sought after by rival radio stations KGU and KPOA, but after the application by the two stations fell through the FCC awarded the channel 4 allocation to Burnett instead. The station has been an ABC affiliate since its sign-on, making KITV one of the two major television stations in Honolulu that has never changed its network affiliation; local CBS outlet KGMB (originally on channel 9, now on channel 5) is the other. They are also the only station in Hawaii to broadcast in the same channel position since its sign-on. It also shared programming from Dumont with KONA (then at channel 11, now KHON-TV on channel 2), until its demise in 1955.
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