In 1973 the "Free Radio Campaign" visited AFN and spoke with engineer Air Force Tech Sgt Bob Strite and morning jock Mark Abbott. The picture is Jim Sampson at AFN Munich.
Sad day when we lost Charlie. Broadcasting at it's best. Waking up the world for a quarter century. Who did anything close to that? http://www.charlietuna.com .
A Friday, a new year and Jim Pewter. Jim celebrated this music every day. Writing, performing, playing the songs on the radio and being a record dealer. He loves and shares this music.
Mail Call. May 24, 1944. Program #93. The program is dedicated to the state of Kentucky. Borah Minevich and His Harmonica Rascals do a spectacular arrangement of, "Brazil." Mortimer Snerd tells Paulette Goddard about his first date. Charlie McCarthy tries to apologize to W. C. Fields for setting a skunk trap in Fields' garden. This is a well-known routine, using the same script as in, "The "Chase and Sanborn Program" recording from September 21, 1941. This time, W. C. loses his place in the script and mis-reads several lines. The date above is the recording date. The program was released June, 1944.
Many troops were first exposed to military "radio" via closed circuit stations in US hospitals. After the war, the stars toured the VA hospitals. This program would have been heard on the "Bedpan Network". Here's a 1954 magazine story about The Bedside Radio Network
In 1983 Joe Ferguson was at KUPL. AFRTS picked him up for a series of shows from around the country, really being the voice of home. It's a Tuesday in 1983 and time for the Joe Show!