KORL-FM

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 Adult Top 40 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.

History

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.