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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 249. Not illustrated. Chapters: Khon-Tv, Khsl-Tv, Kbtx-Tv, Kauz-Tv, Kswt, Wham-Tv, Kvia-Tv, Ktvl, Kten, Wcyb-Tv, Wkyt-Tv, Kwtx-Tv, Komu-Tv, Wjhg-Tv, Wfxr, Kmtr, Kttc, Kviq, Wtvy, Kvii-Tv, Kxlf-Tv, Wday-Tv, Ksby, Wqow, Kepr-Tv, Waow, Wrex, Ktiv, Kima-Tv, Wvva, Wxow, Kimo, Kpax-Tv, Wfmj-Dt2, Kifi-Tv, Cw-Wham, Katn, Kget-Dt2, Kjud, Wvfx, Wcyb-Dt2, Wyow, W50dr. Excerpt: KHON-TV - KHON signed on in 1952 as KONA-TV, an NBC affiliate owned by Herbert Richards. The Honolulu Advertiser purchased the station in 1954, and in 1956 the station was sold to Pacific and Southern Broadcasting, forerunner of Combined Communications. In 1965 the call letters were changed to the current KHON-TV. In 1973, Pacific and Southern Broadcasting had to spin off KHON to the company's president Arthur H. McCoy in order for the company to be officially merged into Combined Communications (which would itself be merged into the Gannett Company six years later) because the merged company was over the legal ownership limit at the time. In 1979 KHON and its satellites were sold to Western-Sun Broadcasting. In 1985 KHON was sold to Burnham Broadcasting. In 1994 Burnham sold KHON, along with sister stations WALA-TV in Mobile, Alabama, WLUK-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and WVUE in New Orleans, to SF Broadcasting, which was a joint venture of Savoy Pictures and the Fox Broadcasting Company, a division of the News Corporation. As part of the deal, all four stations became Fox affiliates. Fox was slated to control the voting stock in the venture, but before the sale closed in 1995, it was determined that Fox's stock in SF would be non-voting. Savoy Pictures controlled the day-to-day operations of the four stations. On January 1, 1996 KHON-TV switched to Fox and called itself Fox 2, and Hawaii's NBC affiliation moved to former Fox affiliate KHNL (channel 13). Unlike the N...
