Radio station in Waianae?Honolulu, Hawaii
KORL-FM
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Broadcast area
| Honolulu metropolitan area
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Frequency
| 101.1
MHz
(
HD Radio
)
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Branding
| Oldies 101.1
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Format
| Oldies
(1960s and 70s hits)
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Subchannels
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Owner
| Hochman Hawaii-Three, Inc.
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| KITH
,
KJMQ
,
KONI
,
KHXM
,
KPHI
,
KRKH
,
KRYL
,
KTOH
,
KQMY
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First air date
| 1989
(as KLHI in
Maui County, Hawaii
; Relocated to Waianae, Hawaii in 2006)
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Former call signs
| Maui County:
KLHI (1989?2006)
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| Phonetically similar to "coral"
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Facility ID
| 36242
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Class
| C
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ERP
| 100,000
watts
horizontal
81,000 watts
vertical
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HAAT
| 592 meters (1,942 ft)
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Transmitter coordinates
| 21°23′34.6″N
158°5′48.2″W
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21.392944°N 158.096722°W
/
21.392944; -158.096722
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Translator(s)
| - HD2:
101.5
K268BE (
Honolulu
)
- HD3:
107.5
K298BA (Honolulu)
- HD4:
97.1
K246BR (Honolulu)
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Webcast
| Listen Live
Listen Live (HD2)
Listen Live (HD3)
Listen Live (HD4)
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KORL-FM
(101.1
MHz
) is a
commercial
radio station
licensed
to
Waianae, Hawaii
, and serving the
Honolulu metropolitan area
. The station broadcasts an classic rock radio format, concentrating on classic hits of the late 1960s through the early 1990s. It is owned by Hochman Hawaii-Three, Inc.. It also transmits on
Oceanic Spectrum
digital channel 883 for the entire state of
Hawaii
.
[1]
Its
radio studios
are located in
Downtown Honolulu
.
KORL-FM's
transmitter
is off Palehua Road in
Kapolei, Hawaii
.
[2]
It broadcasts using
HD Radio
technology. KORL-FM has three
digital subchannels
feeding three
FM translators
with different programming:
classic rock
on HD2 and 101.5 MHz,
smooth jazz
on HD3 and 107.5 MHz,
1990s'
and
2000s' hits
on HD4 and 97.1 MHz.
History
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The station
signed on
in 1989 adopting a
adult classic rock
music format with the
call letters
KLHI
. By 1996, the format changed to a
modern adult contemporary
music, later evolving to a
modern rock
sound.
In 2005 The
Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) gave the station the green light to move the transmitter and its city of license to
Honolulu
. After the change was made, KLHI adopted the new
call sign
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-FM'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-FM dropped all of its daytime multi-cultural programming and went with smooth jazz full-time.
On December 12, 2011, KORL-FM became the first station in the United States to have 4 HD subchannels. One duplicated the analog signal and the other three fed 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
at 101.5 FM. The HD3 channel was launched with a Korean Contemporary -
K-Pop
format, rebroadcasting on FM translator
K298BA
at 107.5 FM. And the HD4 channel debuted with a Japanese Contemporary -
J-Pop
format, rebroadcasting on FM translator
K246BR
at 97.1 FM (switched from K244EF 96.7 FM.
[3]
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 its
classic hip hop
stations. After briefly branding as "97dot1", the station later rebranded as "Hot 97dot1".
[4]
In August 2016, KORL-HD4 flipped to
all-1980s' hits
as "Retro 97.1.".
[5]
On January 1, 2017, KORL-HD3 flipped to country music as "Nash Icon 107.5". In March 2021, KORL-HD3 reverted to smooth jazz as "Jazzy 107.5.".
[6]
Later, on April 11, 2024, KORL-HD4 revised their format again, replacing their all-1980s' format with 1990s' to 2000s' hits and classic hip-hop, still retaining the "Retro 97.1" branding.
KXRG-LP
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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 frequency. Due to 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
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References
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External links
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