KUPA

Not to be confused with KPUA.

KUPA
City	Pearl City, Hawaii
Broadcast area	Honolulu County, Hawaii
Frequency	1370 kHz
First air date	1984
Format	Chinese language
Language(s)	Chinese & English
Power	6,200 watts (unlimited)
Class	B
Facility ID	26441
Transmitter coordinates	21°26′18″N 157°59′29″W / 21.43833°N 157.99139°W / 21.43833; -157.99139
Former callsigns	KLNI (1982-1989) KIPO (1989-1993) KIFO (1993-2002) KMDR (2002-2003) KJPN (2003-2004) KENT (2004) KITT (2004) KFIF (2004)
Owner	James Su (Beach Time Broadcast, LLC)

KUPA (1370 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Pearl City, Hawaii. The station is owned by James Su, through licensee Beach Time Broadcast, LLC. KUPA operates at 6,200 watts from a non-directional transmitter near Mililani Cemetery Road in Pearl City.^[1]

KUPA broadcasts Chinese language programming to the Honolulu media market, covering the island of O'ahu.

History

KUPA was originally KLNI in the 1980s before becoming KIPO/KIFO, a news/talk radio outlet operated by Hawaii Public Radio from 1990 to 2002, when it went off the air and was sold to a Utah-based company. In 2005, the broadcast license was sold to another Utah-based broadcaster who, after closing the sale in 2006, had planned to bring a Spanish language format to Honolulu, but changed his mind and opted to go with a Sports radio format. KUPA returned to the air on August 31, 2007, with programming from Fox Sports Radio with plans to include local content.

On November 1, 2007, KUPA went off the air when it lost its transmitter site, with a brief return to maintain the license in November 2008 from a temporary site. The station resumed regular programming on March 15, 2010.^[2]^[3]

KUPA's entry into sports radio brought the number of sports talk outlets in Honolulu to three. 1420 KKEA and 1500 KHKA are the other two while a third one, 1180 KORL, offered sports talk in the evening hours. This type of competition is unusual, especially in a market with no major professional sport teams, in part due to geographical and financial reasons.

A Chinese language format was observed to be in operation in mid-January 2016. With KORL off the air, a three-way Sports radio competition has returned with 990 KIKI now airing the Fox Sports Radio network that had previously been heard on KUPA.

References

↑ http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=KUPA-AM&h=N
↑ "KUPA 1370 Hawaii Launches New Lineup Featuring FOX Sports Radio and The Jim Rome Show" (Press release). Premiere Networks. March 2, 2010. Retrieved March 8, 2012.
↑ "KUPA/Honolulu Returns With Fox Sports Radio". All Access. March 2, 2010. Retrieved March 27, 2010.

External links

From Honolulu Star-Bulletin (August 31, 2007)

Query the FCC's AM station database for KUPA

Radio-Locator Information on KUPA

Query Nielsen Audio's AM station database for KUPA

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

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