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Subject: [greylinedx] KHBC 1060 AM Still Officially KAHU
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Here are two emails from Chuck Boehnke in Hawaii clarifying the
situation with KHBC 1060 kHz.
Apparently the official FCC Callsign is still KAHU 1060 kHz but they
use KHBC on air for most id's except for the Official Hourly ID. See
Chuck's explanation below.
It is still KAHU but they are hoping to get KHBC in the future (again
see Chuck's explanation below)
Regards
Mark Nicholls
Chief Editor
New Zealand DX Times
NZ Radio DX League
>
>
>Here is the info on KHBC 1060 AM Stereo, they are 24/7 now if it all
>works out OK.
>They still have a few technical glitches but all in all it runs pretty
>smoothly.
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
>-------------------
>KHBC
>P.O. Box 515,
>Hilo, HI 96721
>USA
>
>Phone numbers: USA area code is 808
>Office: 959-5700
>Fax: 959-5800
>Request line: 296-5422 (296-KHBC)
>
>The legal call is still KAHU and is given at TOH.
>GM and Owner is Buddy Gordon.
>Format is everything from Adult Standards, Old and new Pop and Rock,
>Hawaiian,
>Country , to Jazz and everything in between! Haven't heard any classical
>music yet
>but it wouldn't surprise me if some showed up eventually.
>Saturdays and Sundays (Hawaiian time) "Thor" does his Jazz/Rock show 6:PM
>to
>Midnight HSTand he does answer the request line.
(Chuck Boehnke Hawaii)
>-------------------------------------------------------------------------
and more information explaining the situation
>The KHBC story is incredibly complicated but here are the basic details.
>
>The original cp in 1936 was for KWFB on 1210 kHz in Hilo.
>It actually signed on, after modification, as KHBC on 1370 kHz with 100
>watts on May 1, 1936.
>Down through the years it changed ownership and frequencies and finally
>became
>KPUA on 970 kHz which is now on 670 kHz and is owned by New West
>Broadcasting.
>Not really the original station any more.
>The KHBC call stood for Hilo Broadcasting Company .
>KHBC is now the call of TV channel 2 in Hilo which is but a relay for
>KHNL TV in Honolulu.
>When Buddy Gordon bought KAHU he got permission from KHNL to use the call
>KHBC
>simply as a "moniker" for KAHU 1060 but the legal call is still now KAHU.
> FCC rules allow
>a station to call itself anything it wants to as long as a "real" legal
>ID is done reasonably close
>to the TOH. So the ID is done like this, "KAHU Hilo is now KHBC, Hilo's
>original Radio Station"
>along with a portion of the song written especially for KHBC back in
>1936, the "KHBC Hula".
>And, Buddy Gordon calls himself the Hilo Broadcasting Company. He
>doesn't exactly claim
>to be the original station but claims they act like the original one what
>with all the different
>format structures and music and being strictly live and local which they
>certainly are. It is
>one neat and unique station! Really pulling in the listeners with it's
>new 5 kw transmitter.
>There has been a bit of a local flap over the call and Buddy's usage of
>it.
>New West Broadcasting is making noises but that is too bad. Once Buddy
>works out the details
>with KHNL Television he will apply to the FCC for the KHBC call sign and
>make it official!
>
>Now, is that all perfectly clear? If you understand it please explain it
>to me! Hi Hi !
>
>Buddy Gordon's roots in Hilo radio go way back to the original KIPA
>"Rainbow Radio" run
>by his father. And of course Alan Roycroft was "silent partner"as he
>owed much of the
>equipment and did right up to his untimely passing. In recent years
>Buddy made the mistake
>of bringing in partners (Peris Corporation) in order to finance expansion
>plans and they
>became "Big Island Radio" and as time went by Buddy lost control and was
>pushed out.
>And being a radio man he went to work and got KAHU and the rest will be
>history for sure!
>
>That's the story as best I can relate it in the space and time available.
>
>Aloha,
>(Chuck Boehnke Hawaii)