KITV

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Template:Infobox Broadcast KITV is the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television affiliate licensed to Honolulu, Hawaii. Based in Honolulu and broadcasting on channel 4, the station is currently owned by Hearst-Argyle Television and has satellite feeds on all the major Hawaiian Islands to rebroadcast programs outside of metropolitan Honolulu. Its main transmitter is located in Honolulu. It brands itself as Island Television KITV 4. The station is also seen on Oceanic Cable channel 6 statewide.

1 History
2 Relay stations
3 Old logos
4 External links

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History

The station signed on the air in 1954 as KULA-TV, and changed its calls to KHVH by 1960.

One of KITV's previous owners was Kaiser Broadcasting, which owned the station from 1958 to 1964; kaiser sold the station in December 1964, to help fund its new chain of independent stations on the mainland.

KITV adopted its current calls in the 1970s to reflect its service of broadcasting to the Hawaiian Islands.

The station has been an ABC affiliate since its sign-on. However, rumours circulated in 1995 that it would join NBC when KHON decided to join Fox during the "Big Network Switch" of 1994-96. The rumors were mostly due to financial problems involving KITV's owners (Tak Communications) at the time. In the end, KITV stayed with ABC (after Argyle bought the station) and NBC instead signed with KHNL as its new affiliate in 1996.

When Argyle merged with Hearst in 1997, KITV and its satellites became part of the newly-formed TV station group.

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