page_title: KORL-FM
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: KORL-FM / History
caption_attribution_description: English: This was the Logo of KORL-HD4 &amp; 97.1 K246BR-FM, used from December 12, 2011 until July 2, 2015, airing Japanese Pop under the "97.1 J-Pop" Branding.
context_page_description: KORL-FM is an American commercial radio station located in Waianae, Hawaii, broadcasting to the Honolulu, Hawaii area on 101.1 FM. KORL-FM airs an oldies music format. The station is currently owned by Hochman Hawaii-Three, Inc.. It also transmits on Oceanic Time Warner Cable digital channel 883 for the entire state of Hawaii. Its studios are located in Downtown Honolulu, and its transmitter is located near Akupu, Hawaii.
context_section_description: The station signed on in 1989 adopting an adult contemporary music format with the call letters of KLHI. By 1996, the format changed to a modern adult contemporary music later evolving to a modern rock music format. In 2005 The FCC gave the station the green light to move the station and its city of license to Honolulu. After the change was made, KLHI adopted the new call letters of KORL-FM and dropped the modern rock music format, moving it to a new frequency of 92.5 FM and serving the Maui area.
  At first after KORL's move-in in 2006, the station originally played multi-cultural programming during the day and smooth jazz at night and 24 hours on the weekends, but on June 9, 2008, KORL dropped all of its daytime multi-cultural programming and went with Smooth Jazz full-time. 
  On December 12, 2011, KORL became the first station in the United States to have 4 HD subchannels broadcasting on one frequency with one duplicating the analog signal and the other three feeding three different analog translators. The main channel flipped formats to Adult Top 40 and moved the Smooth Jazz format to its HD2 subchannel and FM translator K268BE (101.5 FM analog), while its HD3 channel was launched with a Korean Pop (K-Pop) format and rebroadcasting on FM translator K298BA (107.5 FM analog) and the HD4 channel debuted with a Japanese Pop (J-Pop) format, rebroadcasting on FM translator K246BR (97.1 FM analog; switched from K244EF 96.7 FM analog). Programming on 101.5/101.1 HD2 soon switched from Broadcast Architecture's Smooth Jazz Network (which was also heard on the chief signal when it was a smooth jazz outlet) to a locally programmed Smooth AC mix dubbed "Smooth FM Hawaiian Style". In the spring of 2013, the Smooth AC format of 101.1 HD2 and 101.5 changed to active rock, branded as "K-Rock, Honolulu's Real Rock." 101.5 is an affiliate of the syndicated Pink Floyd program "Floydian Slip." On July 2, 2015 the J-pop format on 101.1 HD4 changed to classic hip hop, branded as "Boom 97.1". However, shortly after, 97.1 had to drop the Boom branding, as Radio One has the exclusive rights to use it with classic hip hop stations. After briefly branding as "97dot1", the station later rebranded as "Hot 97dot1". In August 2016, KORL-HD4 flipped to All-80's Hits as "Retro 97.1.".  On January 1, 2017 KORL-HD3 flipped to country music as "Nash Icon 107.5".
caption: Logo of KORL-HD4 & 97.1 FM used between December 12, 2011 until July 2, 2015, airing J-pop under the branding "J-Pop 97.1".
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