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{{Short description|Television station in Honolulu}}
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{{Infobox television station
| callsign               = KHII-TV
| city                   =
| atsc3                  = yes
| logo                   = KHII-TV logo.png
| branding               = {{ubl|KHII (general, pronounced as "K-Hi")|''[[KHON-TV|KHON 2 News]]'' (newscasts)}}
| digital                = 22 ([[UHF]])
| virtual                = 9
| translators            = 
| affiliations           = {{ubl|'''9.1:''' [[MyNetworkTV]]|'''9.2:''' [[Rewind TV]]}}
| founded                = May 12, 1986
| airdate                = {{ubl|{{start date|1988|2|7}} (intellectual unit)|{{start date|1952|12|1}} (current broadcast facility)}}
| location               = [[Honolulu]], Hawaii
| country                = United States
| callsign_meaning       = Hawaii
| former_callsigns       = KFVE (1988–2019)
| former_channel_numbers = {{ubl|'''Analog:''' 5 ([[VHF]], 1988–2009)|'''Digital:''' 23 (UHF, until October 2009)|'''Virtual:''' 5 (until 2009)}}
| owner                  = [[Nexstar Media Group]]
| licensee               = Nexstar Media Inc.
| operator               = 
| sister_stations        = KHON-TV
| former_affiliations    = {{ubl|[[independent station|Independent]] (1988–1995)|[[UPN]] (1995–2002)|[[The WB]] (secondary 1998–2002, primary 2002–2006)}}
| erp                    = 40 [[watt|kW]]
| haat                   = {{convert|629|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| class                  = 
| facility_id            = 36917
| coordinates            = {{coord|21|23|52|N|158|6|0|W|type:landmark_scale:2000}}
| licensing_authority    = [[FCC]]
| website                = {{URL|https://www.khon2.com/khii}} 
}}

'''KHII-TV''' (channel 9) is a [[television station]] in [[Honolulu]], Hawaii, United States, serving the [[Hawaiian Islands]] as an affiliate of [[MyNetworkTV]]. It is owned by [[Nexstar Media Group]] alongside dual [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] affiliate/[[The CW|CW]] [[owned-and-operated station]] [[KHON-TV]] (channel 2). The two stations share studios at the Hawaiki Tower in downtown Honolulu; KHII's main transmitter is located in [[Akupu, Hawaii]].

==History==
===Early history===
KHII signed on the air on February 7, 1988, as KFVE, broadcasting on channel 5, as the final [[VHF]] station in the [[media market|market]]. Originally, KFVE focused on low-budget programming such as ''[[Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)|Hawaii Five-O]]'' repeats. Later under the moniker "Hawaii is Watching us Grow", it focused on movies and syndicated fare, and by 1990 acquired programs from KMGT (channel 26, now [[KAAH]]) before its format switch to religious programming. As a small-time [[independent station]], it had to rely on low-budget programming and [[Japanese language|Japanese]] television dramas (most of which were later carried on independent station [[KIKU]], channel 20) through much of its early existence. That all changed in 1993 when another local station, KHNL (then a [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] affiliate owned by the [[Providence Journal Company]]), took over management of KFVE through a [[local marketing agreement]] (LMA). KFVE then merged its operations into KHNL's facility. It was the first such local market sharing organization in the country. After KHNL took over oversight of the station in the mid-1990s, coverage of [[University of Hawaii at Manoa|University of Hawaii]] athletics moved over to KFVE, which rebranded as "The Home Team".

===UPN and WB affiliations===
On January 16, 1995, KFVE became a charter affiliate of [[UPN]] under the brand name "K-5 UPN Hawaii". On December 28, 1998, the station began carrying programming from [[The WB]] as a secondary affiliation. Previously, The WB was carried throughout Hawaii on [[KWHE]] (channel 14). KFVE was acquired outright by [[Raycom Media]] on [[New Year's Eve|December 31]], 1999. Raycom had purchased KHNL and the LMA with KFVE from [[Belo Corporation]] two months earlier, but acquired KFVE's license as well after the FCC began permitting duopolies between television stations.

On September 2, 2002, KFVE dropped its affiliation with UPN and became a primary WB affiliate. The station rebranded itself as "K-5, The Home Team: Hawaii's WB", with the "Hawaii's WB" branding being used primarily during promotional advertisements for WB programming. In the Honolulu market, UPN programming moved to [[KHON-TV]] (channel 2) and [[KGMB]] (then on channel 9), which both carried secondary affiliations with the network from September 2002 to October 2004.

===MyNetworkTV affiliation===
On March 7, 2006, Raycom Media announced that KFVE would affiliate with [[MyNetworkTV]] as part of a group deal involving many of Raycom-owned affiliates of The WB and UPN (whose consolidation and shutdowns the following September resulted in the creation of [[The CW Television Network]],<ref>[https://money.cnn.com/2006/01/24/news/companies/cbs_warner/ 'Gilmore Girls' meet 'Smackdown'; CW Network to combine WB, UPN in CBS-Warner venture beginning in September], [[CNNMoney.com]], January 24, 2006.</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/24/business/media/24cnd-network.html?bl UPN and WB to Combine, Forming New TV Network], ''[[The New York Times]]'', January 24, 2006.</ref> which would affiliate in Hawaii with a digital subchannel of KHON-TV). KFVE officially joined MyNetworkTV on September 5, 2006, and did not air The WB's final two weeks of prime-time programming (though it continued to air WB [[The CW Daytime|daytime]] and [[Kids' WB|Saturday morning]] programming until the end of the network's existence).

On January 15, 2009, [[DirecTV]] transferred KFVE from analog to its digital and [[high-definition television|high definition]] signals due to the analog shutdown. The HD feed of KFVE was pulled off DirecTV on January 16 for unknown reasons. A [[standard definition]] digital feed of the station was restored on the satellite provider on January 17. On February 29, 2012, KFVE's HD feed was restored on DirecTV.

On August 18, 2009, Raycom Media announced that it would enter into a shared services agreement with MCG Capital Corporation (owner of CBS affiliate KGMB), in which the operations of that station, KFVE and KHNL would be combined. The SSA also moved KFVE and its programming from [[virtual channel]] 5 to channel 9 under MCG ownership, while KGMB moved from 9 to 5 and fell under Raycom's ownership. The FCC only recognizes ownership of [[facility ID]]s and not station [[call signs in North America|call signs]] or intellectual property, allowing MCG Capital to gain ownership of KFVE and Raycom ownership of KGMB during the swap. The overall viewership of KFVE, while on channel 5, fell outside the criteria (which restricts ownership of two stations in the same market to one of the four highest-rated stations and one not among the top four) that would have otherwise barred a duopoly between KHNL and KGMB if facility IDs were traded as well.<ref name=kgmbswap>[http://www.starbulletin.com/business/20090820_Execs_explain_TV_swap_but_some_see_it_as_blurry.html "Execs explain TV swap, but some see it as blurry"]{{Dead link|date=February 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, from ''Honolulu Star-Bulletin'', August 20, 2009</ref><ref>[http://www.starbulletin.com/business/20091027_Joint_newscasts_launch_with_technical_glitches.html "Joint newscasts launch with technical glitches"], from ''Honolulu Star-Bulletin'', October 27, 2009<sup> {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091029042728/http://www.starbulletin.com/business/20091027_Joint_newscasts_launch_with_technical_glitches.html |date=October 29, 2009 }}</sup></ref> The channel swap took effect with the SSA on October 26, 2009, as KFVE moved from 5 to 9 and changed its on-air branding from "K-5" to simply "KFVE" .As a result, KFVE now operates under KGMB's license. The two stations also swapped outer-island satellites. On November 20, 2013, MCG Capital filed to sell KFVE and its satellites to [[American Spirit Media]], a company owned by Thomas B. Henson and a shared services duopoly partner with Raycom in several other markets, for $22 million.<ref>[http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1581136&Service=DT&Form_id=315&Facility_id=36917 Application For Consent To Transfer Control Of Entity Holding Broadcast Station Construction Permit Or License] CDBS Public Access, [[Federal Communications Commission]], November 21, 2013; Retrieved December 16, 2013.</ref>

===Sale to Nexstar===
On June 25, 2018, [[Atlanta]]-based [[Gray Media|Gray Television]] announced it had reached an agreement with Raycom to merge their respective broadcasting assets (consisting of Raycom's 63 existing owned-and/or-operated television stations, including KHNL and KGMB, and Gray's 93 television stations) under the former's corporate umbrella in a cash-and-stock merger transaction valued at $3.6 billion. Because Raycom operated three stations in the Honolulu market, the companies were required to sell either KHNL, KGMB or KFVE to another station owner in order to comply with FCC ownership rules.<ref>{{cite press release|title=GRAY AND RAYCOM TO COMBINE IN A $3.6 BILLION TRANSACTION|url=https://www.raycommedia.com/gray-and-raycom-to-combine-in-a-3-6-billion-transaction/#amnewsers|website=[[Raycom Media]]|date=June 25, 2018|access-date=November 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180625161249/https://www.raycommedia.com/gray-and-raycom-to-combine-in-a-3-6-billion-transaction/#amnewsers|archive-date=June 25, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="graycom">{{cite web|url=http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/114556/gray-to-buy-raycom-for-36-billion|title=Gray To Buy Raycom For $3.6 Billion|last=Miller|first=Mark K.|work=TVNewsCheck|publisher=NewsCheckMedia|date=June 25, 2018|access-date=June 25, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Gray Buying Raycom for $3.6B|url=https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/gray-buying-raycom-for-3-6b|first=John|last=Eggerton|periodical=Broadcasting & Cable|publisher=NewBay Media|date=June 25, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Gray Acquiring Raycom For $3.65B, Forming No. 3 Local TV Group|url=https://deadline.com/2018/06/grey-acquiring-raycom-for-3-65-billion-forming-no-3-local-tv-group-1202416667/|first=Dade|last=Hayes|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|publisher=[[Penske Media Corporation]]|date=June 25, 2018}}</ref>

On November 1, 2018, [[Irving, Texas]]–based [[Nexstar Media Group]]—which has owned Fox affiliate KHON-TV since January 2017—announced that it would acquire KFVE and the licenses of satellites KGMD-TV and KGMV from American Spirit Media for $6.5 million.<ref name="kfveapa">[https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101794978&qnum=5040&copynum=1&exhcnum=2 Asset Purchase Agreement]</ref> Nexstar concurrently assumed the station's operations through a [[local marketing agreement|time brokerage agreement]] that took effect the day the transaction paperwork was filed with the FCC, under which Raycom forwarded the rights to certain managerial services involving KFVE – not counting certain other services to which Raycom would retain stewardship under the TBA – on a transitional basis.<ref name="kfvetba">{{Cite web|url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cdbs/CDBS_Attachment/getattachment.jsp?appn=101794978&qnum=5040&copynum=1&exhcnum=6|title=Time Brokerage Agreement}}</ref> Under the deal, Nexstar also intended to integrate KFVE's operations into KHON's studio facilities at the Haiwaiki Tower on Piikoi and Waimanu Streets. However, Raycom retained the rights to the KFVE intellectual unit (call letters, syndicated and local programming), which were shifted to a digital subchannel of KGMB as was KFVE-DT2's Bounce TV affiliation (which was moved to KGMB-DT4); the KFVE calls were also retained by Raycom for branding continuity. As such, Nexstar assigned new call letters to the channel 9 license as well as acquired programming to replace that being maintained by Raycom post-acquisition (which included shifting the programming on KHON's CW-affiliated DT2 feed to the KFVE license, and the retention of the MyNetworkTV affiliation, which Raycom did not include in the KFVE intellectual property transaction.)<ref>{{cite news|title=Nexstar expands in Hawaii with acquisition of KFVE|url=https://www.khon2.com/news/local-news/nexstar-expands-in-hawaii-with-acquisition-of-kfve/1563558947|website=[[KHON-TV]]|publisher=[[Nexstar Media Group]]|date=October 30, 2018|access-date=November 9, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Nexstar Doubling Up In Honolulu|url=https://tvnewscheck.com/article/225151/nexstar-doubling-honolulu/|first=Harry A.|last=Jessell|website=TVNewsCheck|publisher=NewsCheck Media|date=November 8, 2018|access-date=November 9, 2018|archive-date=November 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109193747/https://tvnewscheck.com/article/225151/nexstar-doubling-honolulu/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Nexstar's Quiet Hawaiian Duopoly Play|url=https://www.rbr.com/kfve-raycom-nexstar/|website=Radio-Television Business Report|publisher=Streamline-RBR, Inc.|date=November 8, 2018|access-date=November 9, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=KGMB, KHNL, KFVE and KHON linked in sale|url=http://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/11/03/hawaii-news/kgmb-khnl-kfve-and-khon-linked-in-sale/|first=Andrew|last=Gomes|newspaper=[[Honolulu Star-Advertiser]]|publisher=[[Black Press|Oahu Publications Inc.]]|date=November 3, 2018|access-date=November 9, 2018}}</ref>

The sale of KFVE to Nexstar was approved by the FCC on December 17;<ref name="kfvegreenlight">{{cite web|url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/Auth_Files/1797108.pdf|title=Notice of Consent to Assignment|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|date=December 17, 2018|access-date=December 21, 2018}}</ref> the Gray-Raycom merger was approved three days later.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.broadcastingcable.com/news/fcc-ok-with-gray-raycom-merger|title=FCC OK with Gray/Raycom Merger|work=[[Broadcasting & Cable]]|date=December 20, 2018|access-date=December 20, 2018}}</ref>

On January 17, 2019, Nexstar announced that it would relaunch the station as KHII-TV. The station would retain its MyNetworkTV affiliation and plans to continue its focus on bringing local programming to Hawaii.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.khon2.com/news/local-news/khon-and-nexstar-launch-khii-hawaiis-newest-local-television-station/1708356482|title=KHON AND NEXSTAR LAUNCH KHII, Hawaii's newest local television station|publisher=[[KHON-TV]]|date=January 17, 2019|access-date=January 26, 2019}}</ref><ref>[https://www.staradvertiser.com/2019/01/17/hawaii-news/khii-takes-over-channel-5-from-kfve/?HSA=d2649f46346dc089a01bdf8a511b4860320e2756#googDisableSync "KHII takes over Channel 5 from KFVE"], [[Honolulu Star-Advertiser]], January 16, 2019, Retrieved January 28, 2019.</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.khon2.com/khii/|title=KHII|date=June 24, 2019}}</ref> The rebranding and call sign change took place concurrent with the sale's completion on January 28.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1799268&Service=DT&Form_id=905&Facility_id=36917|title=Consummation Notice|work=CDBS Public Access|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]|date=January 29, 2019|access-date=January 29, 2019}}</ref><ref name="fcc-callsigns">{{cite web |title=Call Sign History (KHII-TV) |url=https://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/pubacc/prod/call_hist.pl?Facility_id=36917&Callsign=KHII-TV |website=CDBS Public Access |publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]] |access-date=January 30, 2019}}</ref> At the same time, KFVE's intellectual unit and syndicated programming, along with its Hawaii-centric specials, moved to the second digital subchannel of KHNL-DT2 (channel 13.2), and changed its cable channel position from Charter Spectrum 5/1005 to 22/1022.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2019/01/25/kfve-is-moving-channels-heres-how-continue-watching/|title=KFVE is moving channels! Here's how to continue watching.|website=HawaiiNewsNow.com|publisher=[[Gray Television]]|date=January 24, 2019|access-date=January 26, 2019}}</ref> The HD feed of "K5" was temporarily exclusive to cable, because ever since its inception, KHNL-DT2 had been broadcast in [[480i]] [[4:3]] [[standard definition]]. An equipment upgrade in early 2021 allowed for an upgrade of the [[subchannel]] to [[720p]] [[16:9]] [[High-definition television|high definition]]; however, the [[KSIX-TV|KSIX-DT2]] and KOGG-DT2 simulcasts of "K5" continue to be aired in standard definition.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=print_station&facility_id=34867|title=KHNL HONOLULU, HI|website=www.rabbitears.info}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KHNL|title=RabbitEars.Info|website=www.rabbitears.info}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KSIX|title=RabbitEars.Info|website=www.rabbitears.info}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KOGG|title=RabbitEars.Info|website=www.rabbitears.info}}</ref>

==Programming==
KHII clears all MyNetworkTV programming, except for the occasional preemption in order to broadcast local sports or other special events. As the station (as KFVE) once did with UPN and WB programs, KHII will [[broadcast delay|delay]] MyNetworkTV programming until the weekend in order to broadcast these sporting events. Because MyNetworkTV airs ten hours of programming per week, syndicated programming makes up a vast portion of KHII's weekday schedule, especially during the daytime. Until the 2009 channel swap, KFVE, unlike most affiliates, only used the MyNetworkTV logo to promote its programming in a similar way to [[WXSP-CA]] in [[Grand Rapids, Michigan]], which uses the branding "The X" and a "MyNetworkTV WXSP" logo. KFVE's local logo was used at all other times such as when promoting sitcom repeats or news.

[[feature film|Movies]] are also a regular part of its weekend afternoon schedule; late night and early morning timeslots on KHII primarily feature [[infomercial]]s. KHII was also home to the most complete and comprehensive college sports package in the country as the station showcased more than 100 [[University of Hawaii at Manoa|University of Hawaii]] sports events annually. Sports covered on KFVE included [[college football|football]], men's and women's [[volleyball]], men's and women's [[college basketball|basketball]], [[baseball]], [[softball]], and women's [[soccer]]. KFVE (since 1994) and sister station KHNL (from 1984 to 1993) had been the home of University of Hawaii sports in the islands for over two decades. KFVE broadcast home games in high definition beginning in August 2009 on [[pay-per-view]], with Wahine Volleyball, Warrior Basketball and Warrior Football televised in HD. Events that were not aired on pay-per-view were broadcast in standard definition.

KFVE broadcast its last University of Hawaii sports event on May 15, 2011, with a baseball game against the [[San Jose State Spartans]]. In August 2011, Oceanic Cable began carrying University of Hawaii sports evening on a new [[regional sports network]] OC Sports Channel (which is carried on channel 12). In January 2012, KFVE broadcast two Pac-West Conference basketball games in HD, featuring [[Hawaii Pacific University]] as the home team in both contests.

KHII currently airs the MyNetworkTV prime time programming block from 8 to 10 p.m., instead of the usual scheduled time period of 7 to 9 p.m., which is reserved for local and syndicated programming (KHII airs a local newscast produced by KHON during the 7 p.m. hour).<ref>http://kfve.titantv.com/ KFVE-TV programming schedule - TitanTV.com</ref>

In January 2015, KFVE added [[South Korea|Korean]] dramas to its weekend lineup, airing Sundays from 2 to 5 p.m. They became the second station in Hawaii to feature Korean programming, after [[KBFD]].

===Newscasts===
====KFVE====
{{further|KHNL#News operation}}
On April 17, 1995, KHNL began producing a prime time newscast at 9 p.m. that was simulcast on KFVE; this newscast, by then a standalone program as KHNL dropped its 9 p.m. newscast after switching from Fox to NBC, was dropped on August 3, 1997. On October 18, 2004, KHNL began producing a prime time newscast for KFVE once more, this time airing exclusively on the station; KFVE was the only station in the market to carry its late evening newscast at 9 p.m. as Fox affiliate KHON-TV airs its late newscast at 10 p.m. However, KHON-TV added a 9 p.m. newscast in 2014. KHNL's production of KFVE's newscasts expanded on January 7, 2008, when the then-channel 5 began carrying an early evening newscast at 6:30&nbsp;p.m. Later that year on December 22, KHNL began broadcasting its local newscasts in [[high-definition television|high definition]]; KFVE's newscasts were included in the upgrade.

The shared services agreement resulted in the termination of all but four members of KHNL's on-air staff and all of the technicians for KHNL's morning show when its newsroom merged with KGMB and the two began [[simulcast]]ing newscasts on October 26, 2009.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2009/Oct/26/ln/hawaii910260359.html|title=New era in Hawaii TV news broadcasting begins {{!}} The Honolulu Advertiser {{!}} Hawaii's Newspaper|last=Daysog|first=Rick|date=October 26, 2009|website=the.honoluluadvertiser.com|access-date=February 4, 2019}}</ref> KFVE maintained its 6:30 and 9&nbsp;p.m. newscasts that it had prior to the formation of the SSA between KHNL and KGMB; however, the SSA resulted in the addition of an hour-long weekday morning newscast from 8 to 9&nbsp;a.m., which aired in that timeslot and for only one hour due to KGMB continuing to run an hour-long extension of ''[[Hawaii News Now|Hawaii News Now: Sunrise]]'' from 7 to 8&nbsp;a.m. There were no simulcasts of any newscasts from either of its two major network sister stations.<ref>http://media.ohio.com/documents/20091021_KGMB.pdf{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

====KHII-TV====
{{further|KHON-TV#News operation}}
As part of the switch to KHII, on January 28, 2019, the station began airing a simulcast of KHON's morning newscast ''Wake Up 2day'' and an hour-long weeknight 7 p.m. newscast produced by KHON. Five days later, on February 2, KHII began simulcasting KHON's 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. weekend newscasts.

====Notable current on-air staff====
* [[Augie T.]]

==Technical information==
===Subchannels===
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|+Subchannels provided by KHII-TV (ATSC 1.0)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KGMB|title=RabbitEars TV Query for KGMB|website=[[RabbitEars]]|accessdate=January 8, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KIKU|title=RabbitEars TV Query for KIKU|website=[[RabbitEars.info]]|accessdate=January 8, 2025}}</ref>
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! scope = "col" | [[Display resolution|Res.]]
! scope = "col" | [[Aspect ratio (image)|Aspect]]
! scope = "col" | Short name
! scope = "col" | Programming
! scope = "col" | ATSC 1.0 host
|-
! scope = "row" | 9.1 
| [[720p]] || [[16:9]] || KHII-DT || [[MyNetworkTV]] || [[KGMB]]
|-
! scope = "row" | 9.2
| [[480i]] || [[4:3]] || Rewind || [[Rewind TV]] || [[KIKU]]
|}

===ATSC 3.0 lighthouse service===
{| class="wikitable"
|+ Subchannels of KHII-TV (ATSC 3.0)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rabbitears.info/market.php?request=station_search&callsign=KHII|title=RabbitEars TV Query for KHII|website=[[RabbitEars]]|access-date=March 3, 2025}}</ref>
! style="background-color: #bdbdff" scope="col" | [[Digital subchannel#United States|Channel]]
! style="background-color: #bdbdff" scope="col" | Short name
! style="background-color: #bdbdff" scope="col" | Programming
|-
! scope="row" | [[KHON-TV|2.1]]
| KHON-DT || [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] ([[KHON-TV]])
|-
! scope="row" | [[KITV|4.1]]
| KITV-HD || [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] ([[KITV]])
|-
! scope="row" | [[KGMB|5.1]]
| style="background-color:#ffe8d0|KGMB || style="background-color:#ffe8d0|[[CBS]] ([[KGMB]]) [[File:Action lock 2 - orange.svg|14px|alt=DRM|link=]]
|-
! scope="row" | 9.1
| KHII DT || [[MyNetworkTV]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[KHNL|13.1]]
| style="background-color:#ffe8d0|KHNL-DT || style="background-color:#ffe8d0|[[NBC]] ([[KHNL]]) [[File:Action lock 2 - orange.svg|14px|alt=DRM|link=]]
|-
! scope="row" | [[KHNL|13.2]]
| K5 || "K5" ([[Independent station|Independent]])
|}
{{legend|#ffe8d0|Subchannel broadcast with [[digital rights management]]}}

===Analog-to-digital conversion===
KHII-TV (as KFVE) ended regular programming on its analog signal, over [[VHF]] channel 5, on January 15, 2009, the date on which full-power television stations in Hawaii [[Digital television transition in the United States|transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts]] (almost five months earlier than the June 12 transition date for stations on the U.S. mainland). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 23, using virtual channel 5.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |title=DTV Tentative Channel Designations for the First and Second Rounds |access-date=March 24, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130829004251/http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1082A2.pdf |archive-date=August 29, 2013 }}</ref> Following the channel swap with KGMB, the station's digital channel switched to UHF channel 22 and its virtual channel to 9.

==Satellite stations==
As with other major television stations in Hawaii, KHII operates [[broadcast relay station#Satellite stations|satellite stations]] across the Hawaiian Islands to rebroadcast the station's programming outside of metropolitan Honolulu. The stations formerly served as KGMB satellite stations until the 2009 KGMB/KFVE facility swap, which resulted in both stations becoming satellites of KFVE. The 2019 purchase by Nexstar retained these stations as KHII satellites.

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| [[Hilo]]
| {{nowrap|9 ([[VHF]])}}<br>9
| {{start date|1955|5|15}}
| 2 [[kW]]
| {{convert|31|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| 36914
| {{coord|19|42|49|N|155|8|3|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KGMD-TV}}
| west of downtown
| {{FCC-TV-Station-profile|KGMD-TV|Public file}}<br>{{FCC-LMS-Facility|36914|3=LMS}}
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
! scope = "row" | KGMV{{efn|KGMV used the calls KMAU from its 1955 sign-on (and added the -TV suffix in 1956) to 1976; it was KGME-TV from April 12 to September 28, 1976.<ref>{{Cite web|url= https://cdbs.recnet.com/corres/?doc=84608 |title= History Cards for KGMV|publisher=[[Federal Communications Commission]]}} ([[Wikipedia:WikiProject Radio Stations/History Cards|Guide to reading History Cards]])<!--Converted from {{FCC letter}}--></ref>}}
| [[Wailuku]]
| {{nowrap|24 ([[UHF]])}}<br>9
| {{start date|1955|4|24}}
| 77&nbsp;kW
| {{convert|755|m|ft|0|abbr=on}}
| 36920
| {{coord|20|39|25.5|N|156|21|35.8|W|type:landmark_scale:2000|name=KGMV}}
| summit of [[Haleakala]]
| {{FCC-TV-Station-profile|KGMV|Public file}}<br>{{FCC-LMS-Facility|36920|3=LMS}}
|- style="vertical-align: top; text-align: left;"
|}
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==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.khon2.com/khii Official website]

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