AFN
History of AFN brought to life at Washington-area broadcasting museum
The National Capital Radio & Television Museum in Bowie, Md., on Saturday opened a new exhibit on the history of the American Forces Network, the military’s broadcasting service for service members stationed overseas.
Many TVs at Pacific bases go dark as AFN’s HD upgrades take effect
Televisions at many U.S. military facilities in the Pacific have gone dark as viewers grapple with upgrades needed to receive American Forces Network’s new high-definition channels.
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.