KHON-TV

KHON-TV (channel 2) is a television station in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, affiliated with Fox and The CW. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside KHII-TV (channel 9), an independent station with MyNetworkTV. The two stations share studios at the Hawaiki Tower on Piikoi Street in downtown Honolulu; KHON-TV's main transmitter is also located downtown at the Century Center condominium/business complex. KHON-TV first signed on the air on November 16, 1952, as the first Hawaiian television station and a primary NBC affiliate, KONA, occupying the channel 11 position. It also had a secondary affiliation with DuMont (which it later shared with KULA-TV, now KITV, after it signed on in 1954) until that network's demise in 1955. The station was originally owned by Herbert Richards. Two years later in 1954, the Honolulu Advertiser purchased the station. On October 16, 1955, KONA changed channels from 11 to 2 due to the lower VHF positions (2 to 6) having the most powerful ERPs at the time. The channel 11 frequency now belongs to PBS member station KHET. In 1956, KONA was sold to Pacific and Southern Broadcasting, the forerunner of Combined Communications.