KORL-FM

KORL-FM

City	Waianae, Hawaii
Broadcast area	Honolulu, Hawaii
Branding	Oldies 101.1
Slogan	Hawaii's Oldies Station
Frequency	101.1 MHz (also on HD Radio) 101.1 HD2 for Active Rock "101.5 K-Rock" 101.1 HD3 for Korean HIts "107.5 K-Pop" 101.1 HD4 for All-80's Hits "Retro 97.1"
Translator(s)	97.1 K246BR (Honolulu, relays HD4) 101.5 K268BE (Honolulu, relays HD2) 107.5 K298BA (Honolulu, relays HD3)
First air date	1989 (as KLHI in Maui County, Hawaii; Relocated to Waianae, Hawaii in 2006)
Format	Oldies
ERP	100,000 watts horiz 81,000 watts vert
HAAT	592 meters
Class	C
Facility ID	36242
Former callsigns	Maui County: KLHI (1989-2006)
Owner	Hochman Hawaii Three, Inc.
Sister stations	KITH, KJMQ, KONI, KORL, KPHI, KRKH, KRYL, KTOH
Website	korl1011.com krock1015.com (HD2) korl1075.com (HD3) korl971.com (HD4)

KORL-FM is an American commercial radio station located in Waianae, Hawaii, broadcasting to the Honolulu, Hawaii area on 101.1 FM. KORL-FM airs an oldies music format. The station is currently owned by Hochman Hawaii Three, Inc.. It also transmits on Oceanic Time Warner Cable digital channel 883 for the entire state of Hawaii.^[1]

History

The station signed on in 1989 adopting an adult contemporary music format with the call letters of KLHI. By 1996, the format changed to a modern adult contemporary music later evolving to a modern rock music format. In 2005 The FCC gave the station the green light to move the station and its city of license to Honolulu. After the change was made, KLHI adopted the new call letters of KORL-FM and dropped the modern rock music format, moving it to a new frequency of 92.5 FM and serving the Maui area.

At first after KORL's move-in in 2006, the station originally played multi-cultural programming during the day and smooth jazz at night and 24 hours on the weekends, but on June 9, 2008, KORL dropped all of its daytime multi-cultural programming and went with Smooth Jazz full-time.

Logo of KORL-HD4 & 97.1 FM used between December 12, 2011 until July 2, 2015, airing J-pop under the branding "J-Pop 97.1".

Logo of KORL-HD4 & 97.1 FM used between October 2015 and August 2016; logo between July and August 2016 had branding of "Boom 97.1", and between August and October, "97dot1".

On December 12, 2011, KORL became the first station in the United States to have 4 HD subchannels broadcasting on one frequency with one duplicating the analog signal and the other three feeding three different analog translators. The main channel flipped formats to Adult Top 40 and moved the Smooth Jazz format to its HD2 subchannel and FM translator K268BE (101.5 FM analog), while its HD3 channel was launched with a Korean Pop (K-Pop) format and rebroadcasting on FM translator K298BA (107.5 FM analog) and the HD4 channel debuted with a Japanese Pop (J-Pop) format, rebroadcasting on FM translator K246BR (97.1 FM analog; switched from K244EF 96.7 FM analog).^[2] Programming on 101.5/101.1 HD2 soon switched from Broadcast Architecture's Smooth Jazz Network (which was also heard on the chief signal when it was a smooth jazz outlet) to a locally programmed Smooth AC mix dubbed "Smooth FM Hawaiian Style". In the spring of 2013, the Smooth AC format of 101.1 HD2 and 101.5 changed to active rock, branded as "K-Rock, Honolulu's Real Rock." 101.5 is an affiliate of the syndicated Pink Floyd program "Floydian Slip." On July 2, 2015 the J-pop format on 101.1 HD4 changed to classic hip hop, branded as "Boom 97.1". However, shortly after, 97.1 had to drop the Boom branding, as Radio One has the exclusive rights to use it with classic hip hop stations. After briefly branding as "97dot1", the station later rebranded as "Hot 97dot1". ^[3] In August 2016, KORL-HD4 flipped to All-80's Hits as "Retro 97.1."^[4]

KXRG-LP

Prior to KORL-FM's move-in, another radio station broadcast on the same frequency called "Energy 101.1" (KXRG-LP). It aired nonstop dance music at around 2pm to 2am from Ala Moana to Pearlridge. Energy 101.1's frequency could not be heard from the windward areas such as Kaneohe and Kailua. KXRG later signed off so KORL-FM could occupy the frequency. KXRG looked to move to another signal because of its status as a low-power station and was off the air from 2007 to 2010, when it returned on a new signal, this time at 95.9.

Previous Logo

References

↑ Digital Cable Program Guide / Lineups - Oceanic Time Warner Cable (accessed March 20, 2011)
↑ "Single Honolulu FM Feeds Four Formats With HD Channels, Translators" from All Access (December 12, 2011)
↑ Boom Goes Honolulu
↑ Jamz Quickly Returns to Honolulu

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to KORL-FM.

Query the FCC's FM station database for KORL

Radio-Locator information on KORL

Radio Stations in the Honolulu, Hawaii Market

By AM frequency	590 650 690 760 830 880 940 990 1040 1080 1130 1210 1270 1370 1420 1460 1500 1540

By FM frequency	88.1 89.3 90.1♠◊ 91.5♦ 92.3 93.1 93.9 94.7 95.5 95.9 95.9 96.3 96.7‡ 97.5 98.5 99.1 99.5 100.3 101.1 101.5♣ 101.9 102.7 103.5 104.3 105.1 105.9 106.7 107.5♣ 107.9

NOAA Weather Radio frequency	162.550

By Digital Cable Audio Channels^*	849 851 852 853 854 855 856 857 858 864 865 866 867 868 869 870 880 881 882 883 884 885 888

Digital radio	88.1-1 89.3-1 90.1-1 92.3-1 92.3-2 93.1-1 93.9-1 93.9-2 94.7-1 95.5-1 96.3-1 97.5-1 98.5-1 98.5-2 99.5-1 100.3-1 101.1-1 101.1-2 101.1-3 101.1-4 101.9-1 101.9-2 102.7-1 103.5-1 103.5-2 104.3-1 105.1-1 105.9-1 107.9-1

By callsign	K210DX◊ K217AA◊ K244EO‡ K256AS K268BE♣ K298BA KAIM-FM KBA99 KCCN-FM KDDB KDNN KGU KGU-FM KHCM KHCM-FM KHKA KHNR KHPR KHRA KHVH KIKI KINE-FM KIPO KKEA KKHI KKNE KKOL-FM KLHT KLUU KNAN♦ KNDI KORL-FM KPHI KPHW KPOI-FM KPRP KQMQ-FM KREA KRTR-FM KSSK KSSK-FM KTUH KUBT KUCD KUMU-FM KUPA KWAI KXRG-LP KZOO

Defunct radio stations	KORL (1180 AM)

♣ KORL-FM translator, simulcasting its HD radio subchannel ‡ KPHI translator ♦ KLHT-FM is a new station that has yet to sign on ♥ Currently silent, but will return to air ♠ Moving to 90.1, pending FCC approval ◊ Both 89.9 and 91.3 are KTUH translators ^* Channels operated by Oceanic Time Warner Cable Hawaii radio markets Honolulu Other Hawaii radio regions Hilo Kauai Maui See also List of radio stations in Hawaii

HHawaii Media

Radio Stations

Honolulu	KORL-FM KPHI

Kauai	KITH KJMQ KTOH

Maui	KONI KRKH KRYL

Coordinates: 21°23′35″N 158°05′49″W / 21.393°N 158.097°W / 21.393; -158.097

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 9/19/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.