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Full-power digital · channel 19 · HONOLULU, HI
| Facility ID | 34527 |
| Licence status | Licensed and on air (code LIC) |
| Licensee | KIKU, LLC |
| Community of licence | HONOLULU, HI
The town the station is legally obliged to serve. This is a regulatory obligation, not the transmitter location — the two are often tens of miles apart. |
| Transmitter | 21.39444, -158.09750 |
| Effective radiated power | 60.7 kW |
| Antenna height (HAAT) | 769 m above average terrain · directional |
Source: FCC TV Query, a US Government work in the public domain. Observed 2026-09-23.
Whether this transmitter reaches a given address depends on the terrain between the two points, not just the distance. Ask for a specific spot:
GET /api/receivable?lat=&lon=
The answer grades the path geometry from the USGS 10 m elevation model and says how far into an obstruction it is. It ranks paths; it does not promise a picture.
| Website | http://www.kikutv.com/ |
| AI crawlers blocked by name | none |
Publishes /llms.txt | no |
Publishes /.well-known/ai | no |
| Structured data on the homepage | yes |
Checked 2026-09-11 by fetching robots.txt
and the homepage once each. A robots.txt entry is evidence that a line exists in a file. It is not
evidence of intent, and there are sound reasons a publisher may choose it.
| callsign | ch | class | licensee |
|---|---|---|---|
| facility 795834 | 2 | LPD | |
| facility 795847 | 3 | LPD | |
| K04SI-D | 4 | LPD | |
| KHON-TV | 8 | DTV | NEXSTAR MEDIA INC. |
| KHET | 11 | DTV | HAWAII PUBLIC TELEVISION FOUNDATION |
| K16OG-D | 16 | LPD | |
| facility 794704 | 17 | LPD | |
| KALO | 18 | DTV | REAL LIFE NETWORK: HAWAII |
| KITV | 20 | DTV | KITV, INC. |
| K21PR-D | 21 | LPD | |
| KHII-TV | 22 | DTV | NEXSTAR MEDIA INC. |
| KGMB | 23 | DTV | GRAY TELEVISION LICENSEE, LLC |
This page is also available as data, and so is everything behind it.
/api/station-readiness/KIKU | this section, as JSON |
/api/outlets?q=KIKU | the facility record |
POST /mcp | MCP, nine tools, no key required |
A Rootz dataset. Sources and licences at /api/sources. Corrections: the underlying records come from the FCC and Wikidata, and a fix there flows through here on the next daily run.