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hour when KHNL airs NBC's Today, at 5:30 p.m. The only times when KGMB and KHNL do not simulcast news programming are on weekdays during the 7 a.m. KGMB continues to air a separate weeknight 6 p.m. On that date, the two stations began to jointly produce and simulcast weeknight 5 and 10 p.m. The new unified newscasts, titled Hawaii News Now, launched on October 26, 2009. However, the FCC only recognizes the ownership of facility ID's and not intellectual units the overall viewership of KFVE, while on channel 5, fell outside the criteria defined by the FCC that would have otherwise barred a duopoly between KHNL and KGMB if facility IDs were traded as well. In most cases, it would not be possible for one company to own two 'big three' stations, since the Federal Communications Commission's duopoly rules do not allow common ownership of two of the four highest-rated stations in a market. In effect, Raycom swapped KFVE to MCG Capital in return for KGMB.

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The swap was structured so that the KFVE callsign was reassigned to the license held by MCG Capital for KGMB and the KGMB callsign was reassigned to the license held by Raycom for KFVE. The arrangement also saw a channel swap, with the KGMB intellectual unit (call letters, CBS affiliation and programming) moving from PSIP channel 9 ( UHF digital channel 23) to channel 5 (UHF digital channel 22) and the KFVE intellectual unit (including its MyNetworkTV affiliation) moving from 5 to 9. Though non-news programming would remain in place, the three stations would have a single news department dominated by former KGMB personalities. The combined operation was based at the KHNL/KFVE studios on Waiakamilo Road in Honolulu KGMB vacated its longtime home on Kapiolani Boulevard.

The origins of the three stations sharing their resources stemmed from the August 18, 2009, announcement that MCG Capital Corporation (then-owner of KGMB) and Raycom Media (owner of KHNL and, at the time, KFVE) had entered into a shared services agreement with Raycom as the senior partner. during the summer and fall of 1995, with the addition of a weekday morning newscast after it joined NBC on January 1, 1996. newscast (that was simulcast on KFVE until January 1996, when it became exclusive to the latter station) KHNL added newscasts at 5, 6 and 10 p.m. KHNL had run newscasts intermittently since signing on as independent station KTRG in 1962, it formed its longest-running news department to date in April 1995 as a Fox affiliate with the launch of a 9 p.m. KGMB's news department started shortly after it signed on the air in 1952, and had the highest-rated of the Honolulu market's newscasts for most of its first 25 years after sports director Joe Moore joined KHON-TV (channel 2) in 1978, KHON overtook KGMB for the lead, with KGMB's newscasts placing either second or third in the ratings for the next three decades.

Korean-language newscast with Korean language subtitles, and a radio partnership with KHKA.

It also has a partnership with KBFD, which uses KGMB's taped-on-the-field stories during KBFD's 11 p.m. The newscasts are produced by Gray Television, which owns KGMB, KHNL, and KFVE. Hawaii News Now (also abbreviated as HNN) is a news department shared by three television stations in Honolulu, Hawaii: CBS affiliate KGMB (channel 5), NBC affiliate KHNL (channel 13), and Telemundo affiliate KFVE (channel 6).

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