KGU (AM)

KGU is a radio station in Honolulu, Hawaii. The station is owned by Salem Communications and currently broadcasts on a frequency of 760 kHz with a power of 10,000 watts. KGU, which is Hawaii's first radio station, today offers a sports format. Its studios are in Honolulu's Kalihi district, and its transmitter is in the Kakaako neighborhood.
760 AM is a United States clear-channel frequency, on which WJR in Detroit, Michigan is the only Class A station. There are only 18 stations on 760 AM within the United States.
FM Translator.
KGU also broadcasts its programming on an FM translator. This translator gives listeners the ability to, not only listen on FM, but hear the station in stereophonic high fidelity sound.
History.
The station first signed on the air on Thursday, May 11, 1922. 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.
On December 24, 2010, KGU began simulcasting on sister station KHUI, after they dropped their Adult Standards format. The station took the callsign KGU-FM to match the AM sister. However, after simulcasting for over a month, KGU flipped to a Business Talk format on February 1, 2011. 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 their format from country to sports, branded as "The Shark".