Spouse Calls: Love for AFN Super Bowl ads
The burning gridiron question returns every year to the overseas military community. It’s not about coaches or quarterbacks. It’s about those commercials.
After three decades of ‘Sports Byline,’ radio host still strives ‘to connect with athletes in a human way’
As he sat in front of a microphone, about to debut a talk radio program on WRTL 1260-AM in central Illinois, Ron Barr fought off a major case of nerves before his first time on the air in 1961.
Longtime AFN leader dies of heart attack at US air base in Japan
Robert Hawthorne, chief of the American Forces Network Pacific technical services division, died Thursday at this base in western Tokyo after suffering a heart attack, according to a Facebook post by the network Saturday.
New memoir details AFN DJ Gorgeous George’s odyssey behind the mic
During the Vietnam War, an acne-prone, academic underachiever named George Smith walked into an Army recruiting office in Pennsylvania Dutch country and landed himself a radio gig that lasted for four decades.
Pacific spotlight: Frank Gravinese
You’re a morning DJ for the Navy base radio station. Do you have fans?It’s funny, I actually do have a number of fans.