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Local broadcast historian and former Island News staffer AJ McWhorter’s new book, “Honolulu Television,” sums up 65 years of television history in Hawaii, from the first day this state launched a local signal in 1952, to a major change in the TV landscape in 2009 when two affiliates merged into a duopoly. It describes KITV4’s inception on April 16, 1954 and our call letters at the time, KULA (whose roots were in radio.) Hot off the press, the 127-page book tel...