KAAH-TV

Infobox_Broadcast
call_letters = KAAH-TV
city =
station_
station_slogan =
station_branding =
analog = 26 (UHF)
digital = 27 (UHF)
other_chs =
affiliations = TBN
network =
founded =
airdate = December 23, 1982
location = Honolulu, Hawaii
callsign_meaning = All American TV Honolulu
"(former owners 1996-2003)"
former_callsigns = KSHO-TV (1982-1986)
KMGT (1986-1992)
KOBN (1992-1996)
KAAH (1996-2003)
former_channel_numbers =
owner = Trinity Broadcasting Network, Inc.
licensee = Trinity Broadcasting Network
sister_stations =
former_affiliations = independent (1982-1990)
HSN (1990-1996)
effective_radiated_power = 269 kW (analog)
262 kW (digital)
HAAT = 580 m (both)
class =
facility_id = 3246
coordinates = coord|21|23|34|N|158|5|48|W|type:landmark_scale:2000
homepage = [http://www.tbn.org/ www.tbn.org]

KAAH-TV is a religious television station in Honolulu, Hawaii, serving the Hawaii media market on channel 26 as a Trinity Broadcasting Network owned-and-operated station. KAAH-TV programming can also be seen on low-power repeater stations K34HC in Hilo and KAMN-LP channel 61 in Wailuku, as well as on Oceanic Cable channel 26 statewide (with the exception of Hawai'i Island (the "Big Island"), where KAAH is not available on cable at all).

History

KAAH signed on the air December 23, 1982 with the call letters KSHO. They are also Hawaii's first UHF outlet as well. During its early years the station offered a regular lineup of cartoons, sitcoms, dramas and movies. They also aired Asian programming as well, mostly during weekends

But at the same time they made their debut, they would get more competition when KIKU, which aired Japanese programming, began adding more English-language programming, which would later be followed by the sign-ons of four more stations that also added English-language first-run programming at the time: KHAI in 1983, KWHE and KBFD in 1986, and KFVE in 1987. In between that period KSHO would change call letters to KMGT in 1986. From 1986 to 1990, the station was nicknamed "K-Magic" -- and even carried L.A. Lakers games featuring Magic Johnson (who, in one promo for "K-Magic," said, "What a great name for a TV station!")

By 1990 KMGT would start exiting the world of independent programming by joining both TBN and the Home Shopping Network as a dual affiliate, eventually switching call letters to KOBN in 1992. By 1996 they would switch call letters again to KAAH after it was sold to new owner All American Broadcasting, who would drop HSN and go full time with TBN. Trinity would later buy the station in 2003.

Today KAAH is now one of six television stations in Honolulu airing religious programming: KWHE, KALO, KWBN, KUPU and KKAI are the other 5, but unlike KALO and KWBN, KAAH, KKAI, KUPU and KWHE are licensed by the FCC as commercial outlets. It also operated a satellite station in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii during the 1990s, KLEI. That station is now a satellite of Honolulu ION network affiliate KPXO.

In addition, in February 2006, K34HC was granted a construction permit to begin converting operations to digital television. Upon completion, the station will become a digital repeater of TBN, broadcasting all five TBN services at 15 kW.

External links

* [http://www.tbn.org/ TBN Official site]
*TVQ|KAAH
**TVQ|K34HC
**TVQ|KAMN-LP
*BIA|KAAH|TV|TV