KRTR is a radio station

Radio station

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 located in Honolulu, Hawaii

Honolulu, Hawaii

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. The station is owned by Cox Radio

Cox Radio

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 and offers a soft adult contemporary/easy listening

Easy listening

Easy listening is a broad style of popular music and radio format that emerged in the 1950s, evolving out of big band music, and related to MOR music as played on many AM radio stations. It encompasses the exotica, beautiful music, light music, lounge music, ambient music, and space age pop genres...

 format (similar to that of sister station WDUV

WDUV

WDUV, "The Dove," is a radio station serving the Tampa Bay media market in Florida.Broadcasting on 105.5 FM, the station specializes in playing the "easy listening" format, which announcers for the station describe as "continuous relaxing easy favorites." The format is actually a very gold-leaning...

 in Tampa, Florida

Tampa, Florida

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), broadcasting at 650 kHz with ERP of 10 Kw-U. It is also featured on Oceanic Time Warner Cable

Time Warner Cable

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 digital channel 849 for the entire state of Hawaii

Hawaii

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History

Prior to its flip to beautiful music, the station was known as KORL and had offered a succession of formats, like Top 40, News/Talk radio

Talk radio

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, and MOR, during its tenure. In 2010, KRTR added the nighttime program "Delilah

Delilah Rene

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" to its schedule after it was dropped by AC rival KUMU-FM

KUMU-FM

KUMU-FM is an Rhythmic adult contemporary music formatted radio station in Honolulu, Hawaii. The station, which is owned by Ohana Broadcast Company, LLC, operates at 94.7 MHz with an ERP of 100 kW...

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