16 Facts About KHNL

KHNL is a television station in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, serving the Hawaiian Islands as an affiliate of NBC.

On October 9 of that year, KHNL became a charter affiliate of Fox, which at the time aired only a late night talk show The Late Show Starring Joan Rivers; prime time programming followed in April 1987 with such series as The Tracey Ullman Show and Married.

Just prior to formally affiliating with NBC, KHNL began construction of the first fully digital newsroom in the world.

On January 1,1996, KHNL switched network affiliations with KHON, with KHNL affiliating with NBC and KHON joining Fox.

That year, KHNL won the first Regional Emmy Award for best local news broadcast.

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Raycom acquired KFVE outright two months after the company completed its purchase of KHNL, creating one of the first official commercially licensed duopolies in the country.

In 2003, KHNL received national exposure after Triumph the Insult Comic Dog visited the station to appear on one of its newscasts; excerpts were seen in a comedy bit that aired on Late Night with Conan O'Brien.

The SSA took effect on October 26,2009, at which point KHNL dropped its "NBC 8" branding in favor of simply branding by its call letters .

In January 1995, prior to joining NBC, KHNL became the last of the major network affiliates in Hawaii to form its own news department.

KHNL entered into a partnership with KIKU to broadcast nightly news updates for the station on February 3,2003.

On October 18,2004, KHNL began producing a half-hour prime time newscast at 9 p m for KFVE, restoring news to that station after seven years.

On December 3,2007, KHNL debuted a midday newscast at noon, this program has since been dropped.

On December 22,2008, KHNL became the first television station in Hawaii to begin broadcasting its local newscasts in high definition; the KFVE newscasts were included in the upgrade.

KHNL previously carried NBC Weather Plus on its second digital subchannel until the network shut down on December 31,2008; it was then replaced with a 720p simulcast of sister station KGMB, before the subchannel was eventually deleted altogether .

On May 27,2012, KHNL relaunched its DT2 subchannel as an affiliate of Antenna TV .

KHNL discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 13, on January 15,2009, the date in which full-power television stations in Hawaii transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts .