KHXM (1370

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) is a commercial AM

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licensed to Pearl City, Hawaii, USA. The station is owned by George Hochman through licensee Hochman Hawaii Two, Inc. KHXM broadcasts a

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, primarily in

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, to the

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, covering the island of O'ahu. KHXM operates with 6,200

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s from a non-directional

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near Mililani Cemetery Road in Pearl City. It is also heard on 250 watt FM translator K280FC at 103.9

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and 99 watt K284AL at 104.7

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History

On May 2, 1990, the station

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the air as KLNI. It later switched its

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to KIPA and KIFO, a news/talk outlet operated by

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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

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format to Honolulu, but changed his mind and opted to go with a

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format. By then KUPA, it returned to the air on August 31, 2007, with programming from

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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. KUPA's entry into sports radio brought the number of sports talk outlets in Honolulu to three. 1420 KKEA and 1500

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were 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. In 2020, KUPA, which had gone silent that January along with its associated FM translator, were sold to Hochman Hawaii Two, Inc. for $55,000. The call letters were changed to KHXM on September 24, 2020.

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External links

From Honolulu Star-Bulletin (August 31, 2007)
* * * HXM Radio stations established in 1985 1985 establishments in Hawaii {{Hawaii-radio-station-stub