for other uses see kupu disambiguation . kupu tv honolulu hawaii united states city waim nalo hawai i branding kupu 15 channels digital 15 uhf virtual 15 psip affiliations religious independent 2012 present owner hawaii catholic tv inc. first air date october 1 2003 ; 13 years ago 2003 10 01 call letters meaning hawaiian for to sprout former callsigns kmgt 2003 2006 former channel number s analog 56 uhf 2003 2009 former affiliations antenna tv 2011 2012 transmitter power 12 kw height 373 m facility id 89714 transmitter coordinates 21 19 23 n 157 40 53 w 21.32306 n 157.68139 w 21.32306 ; 157.68139 website www.kupu.tv kupu uhf digital channel 15 is a religious independent television station 1 serving honolulu hawaii united states that is licensed to waimanalo hawaii . the station is owned by hawaii catholic tv . kupu s studios are located on waimanu street in downtown honolulu and its two transmitter sites are located near waimanalo beach and at mauna kapu at the top of the waianae mountain range . as of october 2013 kupu was added to oceanic time warner cable s digital line up airing on channel 56 . it is carried on channel 15 on hawaiian telcom s cable system and on directv on channel 56 contents 1 history 2 digital television 2.1 digital channels 2.2 analog to digital conversion 3 programming 4 references 5 external links history edit the federal communications commission issued a construction permit to waimanalo television partners on october 17 2000 to build a full service television station on uhf channel 56 . the new station was given the call letters kmgt . the station began operating on october 1 2003 under a program test authority and was officially licensed on june 18 2004 . in september 2006 oceania christian church bought the station from waimanalo television partners and the following month changed the station s call letters from kmgt to kupu derived from the hawaiian word for to sprout . digital television edit digital channels edit channel video aspect psip short name programming 2 15.1 480i 4 3 kupu main kupu programming analog to digital conversion edit because it was granted an original construction permit after the fcc finalized the dtv allotment plan on april 21 1997 1 the station did not receive a companion channel for a digital television signal . on january 15 2009 kupu shut down its analog signal over uhf channel 15 on january 15 2009 the date in which full power television stations in hawaii transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts six months earlier than the june 12 transition date for stations on the u.s. mainland . the station flash cut its digital signal into operation on uhf channel 15 ; its former analog channel 56 was among the high band uhf channels 52 69 that were removed from broadcasting use and auctioned by the u.s. government for other uses as a result of the transition 3 using psip to display the station s virtual channel as its former uhf analog channel 56 ; although stations are required to use a psip virtual channel that corresponds with their analog channel allocation kupu later remapped to virtual channel 15 matching its physical digital signal . programming edit the station airs both locally produced and nationally syndicated catholic oriented religious programming from catholictv as well as programming from vatican tv . the programs serve hawaii s 345 000 registered catholics as well as reaching out throughout the state of hawaii to all communities . programming is produced locally in english spanish japanese korean filipino samoan tongan vietnamese and several other languages . references edit http kupu.tv rabbitears tv query for kupu dtv tentative channel designations for the first and second rounds pdf . retrieved 2012 03 24 . external links edit kupu.tv official website query the fcc s tv station database for kupu biafn s media web database information on kupu tv v t e television stations in the hawaiian islands including honolulu oahu khon 2.1 fox 2.2 the cw 2.3 gettv kitv 4.1 abc 4.2 metv kgmb 5.1 cbs 5.2 this tv 5.3 escape kfve 9.1 mntv khet 11.1 pbs 11.2 kids nhk khnl 13.1 nbc 13.2 antenna tv 13.3 grittv kwhe 14.1 lesea 14.2 cozi tv kiku 20.1 ind 20.2 the works 20.3 laff kaah 26.1 tbn 26.2 church 26.3 juce tv 26.4 enlace 26.5 smile kbfd 32.1 ind 32.2 kbs world 32.3 arirang kalo 38.1 ind kwbn 44.1 daystar khlu 46 uni kkai 50.1 rtv kupu 56.1 ind kpxo tv 66.1 ion 66.2 qubo 66.3 ion life defunct khvh tv 13 ind ; 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