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Entertainment News Network is expanding its what-to-do-this-weekend reach to mainstream television audiences on Oahu and the Big Island via 30-second vignettes on PAX Network TV station KPXO. It already reaches listeners of four radio stations and viewers of HACN, the U.S. Army's cable station on Oahu. Coming soon to a
television near you"The ENN PAX TV Entertainment Update" will be produced Thursday mornings and will air between 4 and 5 p.m., and then again between 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. It is to begin sometime after this weekend, according to KPXO General Manager Suzanne Wallace. KPXO is carried on Oceanic Cable channel 27, Verizon channel 3, broadcast channel 66, and on the Big Island's Sun Cable on channel 6. "I'm excited about it," Wallace said, noting that the entertainment events highlighted will fit the PAX TV family friendly guidelines.
Entertainment News Network President and Program Director Charlie Garrett is optimistic the vignette will be expanded to a longer programming segment once it catches on.
"The ENN U.S. Army Entertainment Update" started on HACN as a four-minute segment. It was then expanded to 15 minutes, and within two weeks it will grow into a 30-minute show featuring Garrett, business partner and entertainer Dita Holifield, and local artists who will appear for interviews and performances. "We're hoping the same scenario will follow with Suzanne (of KPXO)," Garrett said.
The program on HACN airs nine times a day and reaches 60,000 U.S. Army homes, he said, as well as other facilities, such as restaurants, golf course clubhouses and Tripler Army Medical Center.
The company's radio reports air Thursday through Saturday on KHNR AM 650, KGU AM 670, KAIM FM 95.5 and KJPN AM 940.
"Our mission is to build a bridge between the local and the military communities," Holifield said. The HACN program, she said, informs Army personnel and their families about "what to see and what to do" locally, providing alternatives to the bar scene. The show also promotes events and activities staged by the Army Morale Welfare and Recreation service, with emphasis on family entertainment.
Erika Engle is a reporter with the Star-Bulletin.
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