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KPRP (AM)
KPRP (650 AM) is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, which serves the Honolulu metropolitan area. It is currently owned by SummitMedia, LLC, pending a donation to the Raleigh-Wake Chapter of the National Alumni Association of Shaw University.
What was KPRP started as KPOA on 630 kHz in 1946 as the fourth radio station in Honolulu, with programming including popular disc jockeys. The station was known as KORL from 1960 to 1988, airing various music and talk formats; this run ended with the station filing for bankruptcy and going off the air for several years. It returned to broadcasting in 1992 as KHNR, an all-news and later news/talk radio station. After then-owner Salem Communications traded two of its AM stations for an FM in Honolulu, the format was changed to easy listening music as KRTR. SummitMedia acquired the Honolulu cluster from Cox Radio in 2013; KRTR then was leased to Pinoy Power Media and operated as KPRP until 2021, programming primarily in the Filipino language.
Taken off the air for technical reasons, KPRP briefly broadcast again in 2022 before SummitMedia surrendered the broadcast license in December 2022, but was reinstated after a donation agreement was reached in March 2023; when that donation was rescinded by May, the license was surrendered again. KPRP was again reinstated by August 2023 after another donation was agreed to with the Raleigh-Wake Chapter of the National Alumni Association of Shaw University and resumed broadcasting by November.
On November 9, 1945, the Island Broadcasting Company, a partnership of three men—Henry C. Putnam, John D. Keating, and J. Elroy McCaw—applied to the Federal Communications Commission for permission to build a new radio station on 630 kHz in Honolulu. The commission approved the application on April 10, 1946, and Putnam—whose involvement in Honolulu radio dated to 1935—announced that the station would seek to assemble a staff of as many World War II veterans as possible, befitting the venture started by three Army veterans. The call sign, KPOA, commemorated those who had fought in the "Pacific Ocean areas" of the war. It was one of three new stations built in Honolulu during 1946. Studios were built at Date Street and Kapiolani Boulevard on land leased from the ʻIolani School.
KPOA began broadcasting on October 17, 1946. Putnam exited the station less than a year later to return to active duty in the Army; though he announced that he would be selling his ownership interest to Keating and McCaw, he did not do so until 1949. In July 1950, KPOA replaced Honolulu station KHON and three other outlets on other islands as Hawaii's Mutual Broadcasting System outlet when the stations opted to focus on local programming.
In the 1950s, Keating and McCaw expanded their broadcast holdings, including several purchases in partnership. In February 1950, the pair purchased KYA in San Francisco, On March 25, 1951, Island Broadcasting-owned KILA began operating from Hilo. Two years later, McCaw and Keating acquired KONA-TV, a struggling Honolulu television station, in a joint venture with the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper, and Island Broadcasting also acquired WINS in New York City.
In programming, KPOA was the home of two of the first popular disc jockeys in Hawaii, briefly at the same time: Hal Lewis, also known as J. Akuhead Pupule, and Robert Melvin "Lucky" Luck, who later competed against Lewis in the morning time slot.
A 1953 FCC order required McCaw to divest some broadcast holdings in order to come under newly redefined radio station ownership limits. McCaw decided to exit his Hawaii radio holdings. KILA in Hilo was sold to its general manager, while KPOA was acquired for $400,000 by Radio Hawaii, a subsidiary of the Tele-Trip Corporation of New York in early 1954. Tele-Trip, whose original line of business was aviation insurance, then purchased WTAC in Flint, Michigan, and KQV in Pittsburgh. In purchasing KPOA from McCaw and Keating, the partners in Radio Hawaii also acquired the option to purchase half of Denver television station KTVR, which they exercised.
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KPRP (AM)
KPRP (650 AM) is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, which serves the Honolulu metropolitan area. It is currently owned by SummitMedia, LLC, pending a donation to the Raleigh-Wake Chapter of the National Alumni Association of Shaw University.
What was KPRP started as KPOA on 630 kHz in 1946 as the fourth radio station in Honolulu, with programming including popular disc jockeys. The station was known as KORL from 1960 to 1988, airing various music and talk formats; this run ended with the station filing for bankruptcy and going off the air for several years. It returned to broadcasting in 1992 as KHNR, an all-news and later news/talk radio station. After then-owner Salem Communications traded two of its AM stations for an FM in Honolulu, the format was changed to easy listening music as KRTR. SummitMedia acquired the Honolulu cluster from Cox Radio in 2013; KRTR then was leased to Pinoy Power Media and operated as KPRP until 2021, programming primarily in the Filipino language.
Taken off the air for technical reasons, KPRP briefly broadcast again in 2022 before SummitMedia surrendered the broadcast license in December 2022, but was reinstated after a donation agreement was reached in March 2023; when that donation was rescinded by May, the license was surrendered again. KPRP was again reinstated by August 2023 after another donation was agreed to with the Raleigh-Wake Chapter of the National Alumni Association of Shaw University and resumed broadcasting by November.
On November 9, 1945, the Island Broadcasting Company, a partnership of three men—Henry C. Putnam, John D. Keating, and J. Elroy McCaw—applied to the Federal Communications Commission for permission to build a new radio station on 630 kHz in Honolulu. The commission approved the application on April 10, 1946, and Putnam—whose involvement in Honolulu radio dated to 1935—announced that the station would seek to assemble a staff of as many World War II veterans as possible, befitting the venture started by three Army veterans. The call sign, KPOA, commemorated those who had fought in the "Pacific Ocean areas" of the war. It was one of three new stations built in Honolulu during 1946. Studios were built at Date Street and Kapiolani Boulevard on land leased from the ʻIolani School.
KPOA began broadcasting on October 17, 1946. Putnam exited the station less than a year later to return to active duty in the Army; though he announced that he would be selling his ownership interest to Keating and McCaw, he did not do so until 1949. In July 1950, KPOA replaced Honolulu station KHON and three other outlets on other islands as Hawaii's Mutual Broadcasting System outlet when the stations opted to focus on local programming.
In the 1950s, Keating and McCaw expanded their broadcast holdings, including several purchases in partnership. In February 1950, the pair purchased KYA in San Francisco, On March 25, 1951, Island Broadcasting-owned KILA began operating from Hilo. Two years later, McCaw and Keating acquired KONA-TV, a struggling Honolulu television station, in a joint venture with the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper, and Island Broadcasting also acquired WINS in New York City.
In programming, KPOA was the home of two of the first popular disc jockeys in Hawaii, briefly at the same time: Hal Lewis, also known as J. Akuhead Pupule, and Robert Melvin "Lucky" Luck, who later competed against Lewis in the morning time slot.
A 1953 FCC order required McCaw to divest some broadcast holdings in order to come under newly redefined radio station ownership limits. McCaw decided to exit his Hawaii radio holdings. KILA in Hilo was sold to its general manager, while KPOA was acquired for $400,000 by Radio Hawaii, a subsidiary of the Tele-Trip Corporation of New York in early 1954. Tele-Trip, whose original line of business was aviation insurance, then purchased WTAC in Flint, Michigan, and KQV in Pittsburgh. In purchasing KPOA from McCaw and Keating, the partners in Radio Hawaii also acquired the option to purchase half of Denver television station KTVR, which they exercised.