KIXK
radio station in Wailuku, Hawaii
KIXK (95.1 MHz, "Kix 95.1") is a radio station licensed to Wailuku, Hawaii, United States. Owned by Akamai Broadcasting, it broadcasts a country music format.
History
On February 3, 1970, Kirk Munroe applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for permission to build a new FM radio station in Wailuku, Hawaii. The application was designated for comparative hearing before being granted on December 22, 1971. It began broadcasting on June 10, 1974, as KAOI (from the slogan "Maui no ka oi", or "Maui's best"). It was the first FM radio station to be established on a Hawaiian island other than Oahu. The station originally broadcast easy listening music with news reports every 30 minutes. In addition to owning KAOI, Munroe—who had previously started radio stations in California and Florida—acquired the Maui Weekly tabloid in 1979. By the early 1980s, KAOI had shifted from easy listening to an album-oriented rock format. In 1986, the station was sold to a company headed by Roger Whitehurst, who had previously owned cable television systems in Texas.
The public source identifies “KIXK” as radio station in Wailuku, Hawaii. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around KIXK, radio and station.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6325189. Authority coordinates are 20.637, -156.390. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970, 1971, 1974 and 1979.
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This entry incorporates text from “KIXK” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.