KKAI is a television station that hit the air in 2004 in Honolulu, Hawaii

Honolulu, Hawaii

Honolulu is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii. Honolulu is the southernmost major U.S. city. Although the name "Honolulu" refers to the urban area on the southeastern shore of the island of Oahu, the city and county government are consolidated as the City and...

. The license is owned by Kailua Broadcasting, LLC.

The station's city of license is Kailua and operates on ATSC digital channel 50. Originally intended to sign on as an affiliate of the UPN

UPN

United Paramount Network was a television network that was broadcast in over 200 markets in the United States from 1995 to 2006. UPN was originally owned by Viacom/Paramount and Chris-Craft Industries, the former of which, through the Paramount Television Group, produced most of the network's...

 television network, it is currently airing family programming from Faith TV in addition to local programming.

As of August 2007, KKAI programming can be seen in the Honolulu area over the air or on cable.

Digital television

Because it was granted an original construction permit

Construction permit

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 after the FCC

Federal Communications Commission

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 finalized the DTV

Digital television

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 allotment plan on April 21, 1997 http://www.transmitter.com/FCC97115/chanplan.html, the station did not receive a second (companion) channel for a digital television station

Television station

A television station is a business, organisation or other such as an amateur television operator that transmits content over terrestrial television. A television transmission can be by analog television signals or, more recently, by digital television. Broadcast television systems standards are...

. On January 15, 2009 KKAI turned off its analog signal

Analog signal

An analog or analogue signal is any continuous signal for which the time varying feature of the signal is a representation of some other time varying quantity, i.e., analogous to another time varying signal. It differs from a digital signal in terms of small fluctuations in the signal which are...

, replacing it with a digital signal

Digital signal

A digital signal is a physical signal that is a representation of a sequence of discrete values , for example of an arbitrary bit stream, or of a digitized analog signal...

 on the same channel. (a "flash-cut

Flash-cut

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