KSIX-TV
Telemundo television affiliate in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, United States
KSIX-TV (channel 13) is a television station licensed to Hilo, Hawaii, United States, serving the Big Island of Hawaiʻi as an affiliate of NBC and CBS. It is a full-time satellite of Honolulu-based KHNL (channel 13) and KGMB (channel 5) which are owned by Gray Media. KSIX-TV's transmitter is located atop the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel on Banyan Drive; its parent stations share studios on Waiakamilo Road in downtown Honolulu.
History
KOHA-TV
On August 31, 1981, Oceanic Broadcasting Company applied for a construction permit to build a new TV station on channel 2 in Hilo. The application was approved on February 22, 1982. However, the Henry family—including former Honolulu and longtime Los Angeles anchorman Chuck Henry and his brother Terry—did not get the station up and running for 18 months, and the Buck family of Los Angeles took a major ownership stake. KOHA-TV finally hit Hilo screens on August 22, 1983. Channel 2 was an independent station, based at the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel. KOHA-TV brought the Big Island its first local TV newscast, airing at 6:30 each night. Some of its programming came from the major networks, particularly ABC; it carried Nightline and was the only Hawaii station to broadcast ABC's Monday Night Baseball.
Within six months of signing on air, however, KOHA-TV had discarded its local news programming; the last edition aired on February 10, 1984.
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