AFRTS Archive

   Don Tracy's back with some 1983 fun. Later Don went onto run a major ad agency. Don Tracy - 1983 More Don Tracy

  In 1966, Chris Noel started "A Date With Chris".  This is from the second show she did for us and you can hear talent in the mak...

  The majority of our programming was created at the McCadden Avenue studios.  A lot of US syndicated programming found its way to us. In 19...

   Talk about a voice.  John Doremus was an Easy listening giant.  In the states he was probably the first voice of music in flight.  Had ni...

    Welcome back Gene Price!  In 1975 I was making my career choices and you helped me decide on the army.  Many Thanks.  Here are all four ...

  GI Jill (Martha Wilkerson) was our first big DJ.  She was the voice of home to thousands. GI Jive 1944 The program continued well into the...

   1980 was HOW many years ago?  Anyone know who was doing the Spanish show on AFN in 1980?  Good stuff. AFN Latin Tempo 1980

  Charlie's career was amazing.  Oklahoma City to Boston to Los Angeles. He was part of our team from 1971 until 1996.  An incredible ru...

  Joe Allison had a neat part of history.  He's been called the DJ that bridged the gap between hillbilly radio and what he call country...

 I certainly wish I had both parts of this.  In 1943, Art Tatum, Billie Holiday, Red Allen and an All-Star cast were part of Jubilee. Los An...

   This is nice, Wolfman recorded off of AFN in Germany in 1977, at the end Wolfman is on voice tracks talking about USAEUR.  Did all of the...

  Roger enlisted during the Korean War and ended up at the network as an announcer.  Perfect place as he was an ABC network announcer.  Shor...

Ric Crawford - Radio News Manager for AFRTS  I remember the games, when I was in Korea or Panama we were using very lo-fi network lines (pro...

      Mary Turner really rocked.  Hard to believe how much that rattled the brass and talked to the troops.  An amazing talent.  Hard to con...

   Mary Helen Barro continued a long line of latin hosts on the network, with a broad spectrum of hits. Mary Helen Barro 1983 More Mary Hele...

      Jim Pewter, Herman and Roger Carroll Herman was the first of the really great soul jocks at AFRTS.  He was making waves at KGFJ and we...

   Jay with Joi Lancing So sometimes it's still a surprise.  I just received a bundle of disks and in there was "Jasin Street"...

    Andy and Virginia Mansfield brought their brand of oldies to NBC and shortly around that time to AFRTS. Turn Back the Clock 1958 More An...

     So what kind of jock would put his home phone number in ads?  Tom Campbell would.  You can say he was accessible... In 1971 Tom joined ...

  Roland and his daughter are Lakers fans... But on the radio 1981 never sounded better Roland Bynum - 1981 More Roland Bynum

  Paul Whiteman with Hildegard I was copying a bunch of AFRS ETS and saw "National Guard Assembly".  I thought it was another norm...

  Robert Barker shares more memories of 1970 in Berlin: AFN building Berlin 1945-79 Here is Specialist Henry Michaels hosting his AFN-Berlin...

 Small World was similar to NBC radio's Monitor.  Some light music, comedy, features.  It's the program where Chris Noel got her sta...

     Pete Smith was  part of the EZ listening tradition at AFRTS.  He followed John Doremus, who followed Jim Ameche.   He had quite a caree...

    Jim with Little Richard Hey everybody, jump up in your seats. Here is the man with a million beats. They make you jump, they make you si...

   1983 was a great year for me, I finished up at SCN and within the year had made it onto Boston radio (part time). Don Tracy had the happy...

  A pretty girl, nice music and Chris Noel was perfect for this.  During the Vietnam war Chris did "A Date With Chris".  In 1967, ...

   From Portland, Joe Ferguson brought America to the world.  There was a project where several top jocks recorded shows for AFRTS.  Joe was...

  Jim Ameche's pop concert had some very interesting orchestral music. Jim Ameche - 1961 More Jim Ameche

    Our visit to Soesterberg continues with Gene Pierce, er Price make another hour of magic.  Listen to the PSA at the beginning.  Talk abo...