Hawaii Radio & Television Guide

The Hawaii Radio & Television Guide, is a one stop place for news, listings and links to Hawaii based broadcast and cable media resources.

The central feature of the Hawaii Radio & Television Guide are dial lists to radio and television stations in the state of Hawaii. These dial lists are categorized into radio station listings for each Hawaiian island and broadcast and cable TV lists for the entire state.

Radio Stations in Hawaii: There are more than 60 radio stations in Hawaii, most of which are located on the island of Oahu. Analog radio is widely available on both the FM and AM dial. FM is dominated by popular music while AM is the home for a variety of formats ranging form news and talk, to sports, religion and ethnic programming.

High Definition radio is available on Oahu and may be common if more broadcasting firms and the public adopt the technology.

Many new radio stations, mainly on the FM dial, have signed on in the neighbor islands over the course of the past 15 years. Several of them are low-powered community based stations that serve a specific niche of the community from where they broadcast.

Most FM stations, being line of sight, are receivable only on the island on which they’re located. Several neighbor island FM broadcaster have set up relay links that repeat the signal of their main stations to bring programming to a wider audience.

AM stations are receivable between most of the islands. AM radio stations from the west coast of the U.S. mainland can be received in some parts of the state during the night time hours.

Links to Hawaii’s radio station dial lists: Big Island | Maui | Oahu | Kauai

Television in Hawaii: Television viewers throughout the state get all of the major network TV shows at the same time statewide. Prime time viewing hours in Hawaii is from 7 and 10 p.m. nightly, and 6 to 10 p.m. on Sundays.

Local newscasts with network feeds occur during the weekday morning hours (5 a.m. to 8 a.m.) and early evenings, usually between 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Late night local newscasts occur during the 10 p.m. time slot.

Breaking news and national weekend sports events are carried live. All other network programming feeds are generally carried on a statellite-delayed basis to accommodate the time difference between Hawaii and the U.S. mainland.

High definition TV broadcasting has arrived in Hawaii. Nearly all of Hawaii’s over the air TV stations now carry digital signals as prescribed by the federal government’s mandate. Most of the digital signals are also cablecast by Hawaii’s dominant cable TV company, Oceanic Time-Warner Cable. All over the air TV broadcasts will be in digital starting in February 2009.

The Hawaii Radio & Television Guide news blog is now the new home page. On this page there will be timely news summaries, editorial comment and featured links. Some multimedia content may also be featured on this page and the resulting news blog archive pages.

The long running Hawaii Media Forum is part of the Hawaii Radio & Television Guide hierarchy and is essentially our public message board. The board is hosted at HawaiiThreads.com.

History of the Hawaii Radio & Television Guide: I started publishing a list of radio stations on local bulletin boards a few years back. The guide started from these lists and grew in scope as the lists were expanded to cover neighbor island radio and television before making its transition to the Internet in 1995. The first edition of the Hawaii Radio & Television Guide went online at Hawaii’s H4 website in May 1995 and moved to LavaNet that June. The site moved to its own domain in February 2002.

I maintain an archive of much of the old content at archive.hawaiiradiotv.com. There you can purview old dial lists, news items of the past, personal memories from people in the community, old radio station playlists and more.

In an effort to make a site that is easier to manage, I switched over to a blog format in late 2007 that is still taking taking shape due to my inexperience in setting up some of the complicated raw text code that go with a myriad of files ending with .php or .css or whatever.

Still I hope you find the patience to bear with me and help make the Hawaii Radio & Television Guide a useful resource of information. Comments, news, corrections and suggestions can be sent to my e-mail address at macpro3000@yahoo.com. Thanks for stopping by.

Melvin Ah Ching
Editor & Publisher

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1. Website URLs: hawaiiradiotv.com | hawaiimediaguide.com