Fun In 1981

There's always time for Charlie. For so many years Charlie really was the voice of the network. Everyone remembers the Charlie Tuna Show.

Charlie Tuna 1980


A lonely GI really wants to hear a female voice, Mary Turner continued in the tradition of GI Jill in WWII and spoke to the troops

Mary Turner 1981

AFVN links

This is very cool, you have to see it.
The AFVN Ipod

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Sgt Snuffy Smith with some great music, AFVN and Adrian Cronhauer opening the Dawnbuster (is that a recreation? I've never heard a Cronhauer aircheck.


AFVN audio archive

Harry Newman

Top (l to r): Harry Newman and Hoss Barnes
Below (l to r): Corky Mayberry, Bob Jackson, Hugh Jarrett and Larry Scott

Time for more of your country favorites with Harry Newman:

Herman Griffith

An oddity is most any radio personality that some sort of a biography is not available for. Even I'm listed under a station I used to work for in Wikipedia. Herman Griffith was working at KGFJ in the early 60s (was Hunter Hancock still there?) and doing a show for AFRTS. The AFRTS show continued into the early 70s. It was great radio, give a listen...



Part of our continuing tribute to the young and the old, the brave and the bold...

Happy New Year!!

Hi, I hope that your New Year was great and that you find memories here. Did you save any tapes of your AFRTS station? We'd sure like to hear copies. If you've recently been with AFRTS, I'd be very interested in hearing what it's like now. What's the MOS training like now? Left a lot to be desired in the 70s, but we fumbled along.

Thanks for stopping by, if you enjoy it be sure to tell a friend!

afrts@live.com


Thom
DINFOS 1976
AFKN 1976-77
SCN 1980-83

AFN, then and not quite so then

Time to take another 1940s-50s look at AFN, this is unsorted but an early perspective on our network.



Then, by 1986 AFN sounded like this:

Charlie Tuna 1989

The most consistant personality in radio was Charlie Tuna. He did the same meticulous program in 1970 that he did in 1995. Normally that would be a bad thing, not with Charlie Tuna.

He was heard around the world daily on the Armed Forces Radio Network for a 25 year – 6000 show run from 1971 to 1996, as well as on numerous nationally syndicated radio shows, since the early 70’s. He’s now heard across the U.S. and in Canada on a 4 hour daily syndicated show and a 5 hour weekend show from United Stations Radio Network in New York.

Charlie has his own really great website over at charlietuna.com If you haven't been there yet you should!

From 1989