KHKA (1500 AM) is a

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located in

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. The station is owned by Blow Up, LLC and broadcasts a

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format. KHKA also retransmits on Oceanic Spectrum digital channel 885 for the entire state of Hawaii. According to the station website, it is officially branded as CBS 1500.

History

The station, which signed on the air on March 3, 1963, was part of a simulcast with FM sister KUMU during its days as a beautiful music outlet throughout the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. More recently it was adult standards, and later on, sports talk as an affiliate of

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. In 2010 KUMU-AM once again became a simulcast of KUMU-FM. On August 2, 2010, Ohana Broadcast Company, LLC sold KUMU-AM to Blow Up, LLC, for $250,000(USD). On September 30, 2010, the call sign was changed to KHKA and the station started broadcasting a sports talk format. In April 2013, KHKA rebranded as

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1500AM. On January 1, 2019, KHKA became an affiliate of

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as a result of NBC Sports Radio discontinuing its full-time network programming. By May 2020, KHKA rebranded as "CBS 1500" as it added programming from

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and ''

Hawaii News Now ''Hawaii News Now'' (also abbreviated as ''HNN'') is a news department shared by three television stations in Honolulu, Hawaii: CBS affiliate KGMB (channel 5), NBC affiliate KHNL (channel 13), and Telemundo affiliate KFVE (channel 6). The newsca ...

'' to the lineup while retaining CBS Sports Radio programs.

References

External links

FCC History Cards for KHKACBS 1500 website
CBS Sports Radio stations HKA Sports radio stations in the United States Radio stations established in 1963 1963 establishments in Hawaii {{Honolulu-stub