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KGU (760 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station in Honolulu, Hawaii, known as "The Shark". It is owned by the Salem Media Group and broadcasts a sports radio format, carrying syndicated programming from the SportsMap Radio Network. The radio studios and offices are in Honolulu's Kalihi district, and its transmitter is in the Kakaako neighborhood.
KGU is Hawaii's oldest radio station, founded decades before Hawaii became a state. It signed on the air on Thursday, May 11, 1922. By the 1930s, KGU was powered at 2,500 watts, broadcasting on 750 kilocycles.[3] It was owned by the Advertising Publishing Company, carrying programs from the NBC Red Network. With the enactment of the North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA), KGU moved one spot up the dial to 760 kHz.
In April 1935 it was used as a homing beacon by Captain Ed Musick and Fred Noonan during their survey flights of the Pacific in a Pan American World Airways Sikorsky S-42. In 1941, Japanese aviators used the station's signal to lead them to their attack on Pearl Harbor; later that day, a KGU reporter broadcast news of the attack nationwide on NBC, a report that was interrupted by a telephone operator.[4]
As network program moved from radio to television in the 1950s, KGU switched to a full service, middle of the road format of popular music, news and sports. In the early 2000s, the station began playing adult standards.
On December 24, 2010, KGU began simulcasting country music along with sister station 99.5 KHUI, after dropping the Adult Standards format. The FM station took the call sign KGU-FM to match the AM sister.[5] However, after simulcasting for over a month, KGU changed to a Business Talk format on February 1, 2011.[6] The station features programming from the Wall Street Radio Network and CNBC.
In December 2018, the station adopted a Classic Country format branded as "95.1 and AM 760 Honolulu's Real Country".
In April 2021, KGU changed its format from country to all-sports, branded as "The Shark".[7] It uses programming from the SportsMap Radio Network, based in Houston.
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