First episode of Ka Leo Hawai'i airs

Feb. 27, 1972

First episode of Ka Leo Hawai'i airs Mea hoʻokipa o Ka Leo Hawaiʻi, ʻo Larry Lindsey Kauanoe Kimura me kona mau hoa kamaʻilio ʻo Lahela Ridenour lāua ʻo Joseph Wenuke Makaʻai, March 29, 1987.
Recognizing the need to preserve ʻōlelo Hawai'i, Larry "Kauanoe" Lindsey Kimura started an all Hawaiian language radio program on KCCN. His first guest was John Kameaaloha Almeida, an old-time and well-known Hawaiian musician. Over 16 years of the program, he would record more than 550 hours of Hawaiian language interviews, serving as a crucial bridge between the older generation of speakers who learned from parents educated before the 1896 language ban and the new generation of learnings coming of age in the 1970's and ever since. Ka Leo Hawai'i means the Hawaiian Voice.