...does anyone hereabouts have access to a copy of the Honolulu Advertiser or Star-Bulletin that would have radio listings for the day before and/or the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor? Obviously, all scheduled programming was interrupted from 8:00 A.M. onwards that Sunday, but I'm particularly curious as to what network programs KGU (NBC) and KGMB (CBS) were going to have, and how they got them (was there a shortwave feed from North America, or an undersea cable?)...
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anyone have the Honolulu radio schedules for December 6 or 7, 1941?
- Thread starter Ultimajock
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Just as an aside, if someone does find and publish the requested schedules and if there was
some sort of network hookup (shortwave, as mentioned?) from the left coast...
In 1941 Hawaii's time zone* was GMT-10.5, whereas now it's GMT-10/HST. Honolulu was 2.5
hours earlier than El Lay (GMT-08/PST) and 5.5 hours behind New York (GMT-05/EST).
*: Source--Time Changes In The USA by Doris Chase Doane.
some sort of network hookup (shortwave, as mentioned?) from the left coast...
In 1941 Hawaii's time zone* was GMT-10.5, whereas now it's GMT-10/HST. Honolulu was 2.5
hours earlier than El Lay (GMT-08/PST) and 5.5 hours behind New York (GMT-05/EST).
*: Source--Time Changes In The USA by Doris Chase Doane.
Ultimajock said:
Well, there were only those two station in Honolulu, and KGU was owned by the Advertiser, so a good place to start would be a search on that. The Advertiser and the Star-Bulletin merged this year and the surviver is the Star-Advertiser. But the Star Bulletin was the first of the two to issue a special edition on 12/7, IIRC.
Much network programming was done by transcription, and short wave was employed, too. Even in the late 50's, transcribed programs were used. I got a souvenir 7" reel from KULA in 1959 when I reported reception of a delayed broadcast of a baseball game on the station at my location in Ohio; the reel was the actual recording of the game I heard, made in CA and shipped to Hawai'i for broadcast.
KGU was an affiliate of both the Red and Blue networks.
This is somewhat off-topic, but does pertain to that "Day of Infamy".
If someone is digging around for old newspapers, either in paper or micro-film, it might be interesting to find the New York Times for that approximate period. I once heard that the crossword puzzle for one of the days preceeding December 7 contained the following: one of the words across was labeled as: Oyster's Prize (Pearl) and one of the words down was listed as: Ship's Haven (Harbor). It was reported that after the attack, the FBI paid a visit to the Times offices.
If someone is digging around for old newspapers, either in paper or micro-film, it might be interesting to find the New York Times for that approximate period. I once heard that the crossword puzzle for one of the days preceeding December 7 contained the following: one of the words across was labeled as: Oyster's Prize (Pearl) and one of the words down was listed as: Ship's Haven (Harbor). It was reported that after the attack, the FBI paid a visit to the Times offices.
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