Hawaii News Now — Local services in Honolulu

HNN, or Honolulu News Now as their acronym reads in my mind, has gone downhill since my last review, especially with news coverage for islands outside of Oahu. While I still like the newscasters and reporters, the main reason for watching the news - information, is lacking. And for sports fans, they still don't have a dedicated sports team, so even less stories are reported. At times even Oahu stories go unreported or are days old news. One example was the closing of iconic diner, Like Like Drive Inn. Three or four days after the story broke on KITV news did they even announce it. News is news no matter how petty.

But, what prompted this review update was for their recent coverage on Hurricane Douglas on Maui (7.26.20). I wasn't watching HNN but a family member was on another TV in our house. At around 2:00pm as the hurricane was way past Maui and nearing Oahu, according to another more accurate news organization, HNN kept reporting that "Maui braces for hurricane" and "Maui residents urged to take shelter". They even had an inaccurate radar map showing red radar images (heavy rain) of a humongous storm enveloping all of Maui county when in fact there was barely a drizzle at the time. Yes, it's better to be safe than sorry but faulty information is just sad. Said family member was totally confused as the reporting and actual weather didn't sync. I finally turned the channel to KHON and did her a big favor, lol.

OVERALL: I have since changed my viewing habits with KITV at 6pm (only one-hour newscast in the state) and KHON at 10pm. I still watch HNN every now and then but only in the mornings as their Sunrise crew does a good job at...

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