![]() ![]() The remote doesnʻt always work engineers have to be sent to the site by helicopter to reset the switch more often than not winds and storms donʻt' help.ġ985: One of public radio's earliest stars, Garrison Keillor, comes to Blaisdell Concert Hall to broadcast his A Prairie Home Companion.ġ986: Coverage is boosted on Oʻahu's North Shore and parts of Kauaʻi with the addition of a repeater transmitter on the top of Mt. ![]() On November 13, 1981, recognized as HPRʻs founding date, KHPR 88.1 FM goes on the air with Gustav Mahlerʻs "Das Lied von der Erde." During this period, the station signs off at midnight, turning the antenna off by remote control, and returning to the air at 4:30 a.m. The HPR antenna would go on the tower already in use by Radio KIYE (now KRTR). The transmitter site on Wiliwilinui Ridge had already been determined. He begins his new position at HPR on August 1.ġ981: Then UH President Fujio Matsuda had offered studio space to the budding community-licensed station in the old Varsity Building, near Klum Gym on UH Mānoaʻs lower campus. A founding member of Hawaii Public Television, he has considerable experience in the Wisconsin public radio system before moving to Hawaiʻi in 1966. Businessman John Henry Felix is named chair of the new board.ġ980: Cliff Eblen is invited to join the staff as manager. ![]() Progress was slow at first, efforts were scattered, goals were unclear.ġ979: The board realizes it needs to involve some business and cultural leaders. HPR's first News Director Bob Miller and founding General Manager Cliff Eblen in HPRʻs "ur-studio" lined with egg cartons for acoustic baffling.ġ976: A group of citizens come together to incorporate a nonprofit organization, which they called Hawaii Islands Public Radio. ![]()
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