12 Facts About KITV

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

KITV's studios are located on South King Street in downtown Honolulu, and its main transmitter is located atop the Ala Moana Hotel in Honolulu.

Around that time, the station adopted its present-day KITV call letters to reflect its service of broadcasting to the Hawaiian Islands.

KITV ultimately remained with ABC, and NBC instead signed an affiliation deal with existing Fox affiliate KHNL, later switching to the network in January 1996.

Today, KITV receives ABC shows on the same day as the rest of the United States, including live news, sports coverage, and special events.

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On February 28,2016, KITV began airing the Academy Awards live for the first time after delaying the telecast for decades, citing the impact of social media reporting the winners in real-time, making it difficult to delay the broadcast for Hawaiian viewers.

KITV was well known throughout Hawaii as the long-time presenter of the Merrie Monarch Festival, which was broadcast on the station live every April from Hilo for many years until 2009.

KITV has won a Regional Emmy Award for the best newscast in the state.

Since KITV was the only station in Hawaii to air live coverage of the earthquake after the event, it attracted a flood of phone calls and e-mails from people worldwide trying to find out if their loved ones were safe.

On October 4,2010, about two months after Hearst sister stations KCRA-TV and KSBW started broadcasting an alternate set of programming over on their second digital subchannels, KITV replaced "Weather Now" programming during the 6 to 11 p m timeslot with "More TV Hawaii", a channel modeled after its Tampa sister station WMOR-TV and operated as an independent station-style service that featured first-run shows, reruns of sitcoms and dramas, and current syndicated KITV programs.

On November 14,2011, KITV replaced "Weather Now" and "More TV Hawaii" with MeTV; MeTV programming on KITV is electronically delayed for the Hawaii Time Zone, following the network's Eastern Time schedule.

KITV discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over VHF channel 4, on January 15,2009, the date in which full-power television stations in Hawaii transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts .