Morning radio hosts Michael W. Perry and Larry Price are taking their show on the road.

Well, out to sea, for a series of live broadcasts from the Alaska-bound Star Princess cruise ship.

The top-rated radio show in Hawaii, on KSSK-FM 92.3/AM 590, will be relayed to listeners via satellite.

"We’ve got a cell (phone) backup, but we still expect some glitches," said Perry, who said a live broadcast had never been done by any station from this or any other cruise line, as far as his research could determine.

There have been TV broadcasts from cruise ships, "but they had $5 million worth of equipment and their own satellite trackers," he said. "We’re doing it with just what they’ve got on the ship."

Monday and Tuesday the show will start at 5:30 a.m. "and end early because satellite time is unbelievably expensive," Perry said. The show will take a break on the Fourth of July because the ship will be coursing through a fjord "so we can’t get satellite service." The show continues Thursday from Skagway, while the ship is docked. July 6 "is our final broadcast at sea. We’ll be heading down to Victoria, B.C.

Among the more than 2,000 passengers will be about 174 "of our closest friends," who booked to be part of the Perry and Price experience, Perry said.

Daysog moves to Hawaii News Now

Former Honolulu Star-Bulletin colleague and former Honolulu Advertiser rival Rick Daysog will start a new branch of his career July 9 as a television reporter for Hawaii News Now.

Rick Daysog

He will be reporting to News Director Mark Platte, who was Daysog’s editor at the Advertiser. Platte joined HNN in May 2010.

Daysog had left Hawaii for a job with the Sacramento Bee newspaper and returned to the islands in March for a job as chief of communications for the Hawaii State Energy Office in the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, a job from which he has resigned.

"We are very excited to have him join our Hawaii News Now team," said Rick Blangiardi, vice president and general manager. "I want us to be a courageous newsroom." In a memo to staff, Platte described Daysog as "one of the top investigative reporters in the state."

Daysog succeeds Brooks Baehr, who departed for an off-camera position at KITV earlier this month, and brings the full-time reporter ranks to five. Some HNN news and weather anchors also report stories three days a week, and two video journalists, Oscar Valenzuela and Brenton Awa, both report and shoot their own stories.

Vacancies left by the March departure of reporter Minna Sugimoto and the May departure of weekend weather anchor and reporter Malika Dudley also will be filled, Platte said.

Reach Erika Engle at 529-4303, erika@staradvertiser.com, or on Twitter as @erikaengle.