Harvey Weinstein, host of Harvey’s Corner; Sept. 8, 1943 - Feb. 28, 2009
Harvey Weinstein was a pioneer of FM radio in Honolulu, as one of the first personalities to appear on KPOI-FM 97.5, perhaps as early as 1968.
He died Sat., Feb. 28, 2009, at about 4 p.m., at home.
He was born in Brooklyn, New York and came to Hawaii either in 1967 or ‘68, according to his daughter Davin. I met her when she was a child and her dad and I were co-workers at K59 (KSSK-AM 590) in the 1980s.
He was a very nice man, respected by his colleagues, not in the dour, stiff, suit-wearing way that executive types respect each other, but in the joking, laughing, story-telling way that jox of the time used to talk about one another.
Now a writer for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, I learned today of his death from cancer and wrote his obituary.
In radio news, :20 to :30 -- or an absolute max of :45 for a single item was so often too short a time in which to tell a story.
I so envied the 1:30 or 2:00 (or more!) that TV reporters got, but moreso, I envied the many words and column inches newspaper reporters were given to tell their stories.
My broadcast-era envy of print reporters’ space was misplaced.
Now I envy magazine writers, who not only get more column inches, but the luxury of time to gather scads of information -- and the ability to luxuriate further in the process of choosing exquisite word-fibers from whence to weave the fabric of their stories.
The 15 column inches I wrote on Harvey, that will run in tomorrow’s paper, didn’t even scratch the surface.
I did some interviews for the obit, but I am restricted by newspaper policy from including those notes here.
What follows are snippets I found about him on the Internet, with URL citations. If I’d had the space to include this information, some of it glorious, I would have.
His daughter Davin wrote a personal message about her dad on her Facebook page -- but I don’t feel right about pasting it in here -- those are her words, her feelings, her heart for her departed father, who would have been 66 this year.
I share this information for her, for Harvey’s widow, his two little boys and other surviving members of his family as well as the friends who will dearly miss him. Services are pending.
http://archive.hawaiiradiotv.com/HIRATV/2004/newz02.html
May 8, 2004
KNDI Radio Website Packed with Program Information
KNDI recently announced their website to the Hawaii Radio & Television Guide. The new site is found at their unique URL, http://www.kndi.com/. The site features pictures and information on many of the KNDI radio personalities and programming information and air times for each show. Speakers of the various languages from the Philippines benefit the most from KNDI's programming, though the station targets other language groups including Cantonese, Samoan and Ilocano. The station also runs specialty programs including "The Crash House", a heavy metal rock show airing during the late night/early morning weeknight hours.
One of our message board users asked whatever happened to Harvey Weinstein who once worked at the old KPOI FM in the early 1970s. He can be found working a specialty blues show Saturday nights from 7 to 9 pm.
KNDI is owned by The Broadcast House of the Pacific, Inc. and is one of the oldest locally owned radio stations in Honolulu. They broadcast at 1270 on the AM dial with studios and offices at 1734 South King Street.
http://www.univibes.com/Jimi_Plays_Hawaii1969.html
JIMI PLAYS HAWAII 1969: "You'll Forever Hear Surf Music..."
by Caesar Glebbeek
SATURDAY, 31 MAY
Honolulu, 1701 Ala Wai Boulevard, "K-POI" station ? Live radio interview (mid afternoon) with Jimi and Noel (Mitch's involvement is unconfirmed) conducted by Dave Roberts.
Harvey Weinstein: "Hendrix comes back to town; he's playing at the Waikiki Shell. Again he's coming down to the radio station for an interview. Now K-POI was an AM and an FM [station]. So, this time it's a little different. It's a year later; this time I'm the [FM] program director. I am on the air and I've got a year's experience under my belt.
"It's daytime; it's like five o'clock in the afternoon and they are bringing Hendrix in for an interview. So I am ready for him this time, you know! If he would have started to lay into me like he did the last time [in October 1968], I was gonna cut him off and I was gonna come right back with him. I was gonna barb with him.
"The last time my boss was there so I had to try to be as cool as I could. Besides that, I was so green I don't think I could have been cool! [Laughs] So I am waiting, man, and I am waiting and I am waiting, and they bring Hendrix in. He goes over to the AM side, does the interview over there and splits. Doesn't even come back to FM. And that was it! So all that anticipation of having round two with Hendrix never came about."
Honolulu, Island of Oahu, Hawaii, "Waikiki Shell" ? Concert (20:00). Support: Fat Mattress. 7,673 people attend (ticket sales grossed US $25,884). Songs: Johnny B. Goode; Purple Haze; and others.
Newspaper Blurb
Eddie Sherman: "If residents anywhere in the vicinity of the Waikiki Shell have earaches this morning ? it could be from Jimi Hendrix' Experience last night at the Shell. Wot a blast" (Honolulu Advertiser, 1 June 1969).
Waikiki Shell Tape Rumor
Charles Humphrey (fan): "Last night [7 October 1999] I went to a soccer game and sat with an old friend... He mentioned seeing Jimi in Hawaii and I said, 'Oh, on Maui?' And he said, 'No, at Waikiki Shell, Honolulu... I still have that tape somewhere.' He says it's on a reel-to-reel and he thinks he can put his hands on it. It was broadcast from a pirate radio station and he recorded the broadcast. My friend mentioned a full moon over Diamond Head..."
NB We checked with broadcasters Tom Moffatt and Harvey Weinstein, and both are certain that there was no pirate radio station in Hawaii: "Not with all the military installations here, etc.; no way." They also confirmed to us that K-POI never taped any shows.
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxld5223.txt (Note original article URL, below)
Harvey Weinstein, KNDI vice president and station manager, is a 38-
year radio veteran who once worked at the fabled KPOI rock station at
its peak in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Weinstein has been working at KNDI the past 15 years and, like others,
he credits Jona for the station's success. "I think if she were to
sell this station to somebody else, I don't know if they could perform
the same commitment that she has to the ethnic community," he said.
"Where else are these people going to go find out about what's
happening in their homeland or even what's happening here in the
community in Hawai'i?"
[Sidebar illustration:] KNDI manager Harvey Weinstein, left, and
owner, Leona Jona, air programming in at least 11 languages.
RICHARD AMBO | The Honolulu Advertiser
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/dailypix/2005/Dec/25/FPI512250349AR_b.jpg
And per Leona Jona, president and general manager of KNDI-AM 1270
1991-2009 Operations Manager & Saturday Evening Blues program host on KNDI AM, Honolulu, HI
1983-2007 Teacher/Counselor - Columbia School of Broadcasting.
1982-1987 Music Director/Air Personality - KSSK AM, Honolulu, HI
1978-1980 Program Manager - KIVM AM - Lihue, Kauai
1977-1978 Air Personality - KULA FM, Honolulu, HI
1975-1977 Music Director/Air Personality - KIKI AM, Honolulu, HI
1974-1975 Music Director/Air Personality - K-108 AM, Honolulu, HI
1972-1974 Air Personality - KPOI-AM, Honolulu, HI
1968-1974 Program Director/Music Director/Air Personality - KPOI FM, Honolulu, HI
Aloha Harvey. And thank you for teaching me those naughty yiddish words.
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