AFRTS Archive

Depending on your age, William Conrad means radio's Matt Dillon, Rocky and Bullwinkle's announcer or Cannon.  He was a monster talen...

Here's a tribute to one of the most decorated units ever.  The 19th Bombardment Group   The network did a lot of programming to highlig...

Roland Richter shares his memories: We were running a Gates BC-1G transmitter with 1 kilowatt into a quarter wave tower with a reall...

  Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) Program Materials, DoD Directive 5120.20-R, Appendix F.   AFRTS-BC ships 80 hours...

Ed Tooma     Phil just transferred another great broadcast.  It's 1973 and from Berlin, Army Specialist Ed Tooma has your soul ...

Thanks again to Phil.  He recorded this from AFN Munich.  From Frankfurt to the network Jimi Hendrix, Spike Jones and the Association.  Busi...

  Good morning Munich?  Phil found more great material and is sharing this 1973 look at a morning in Munich.   AFN Jim Sampson - Au...

We lost Tony Sheridan recently.  Tony was a big star in Europe.  In the states most famous for having the pre-fame Beatles as a backup band ...

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This blog gets a lot of non-US traffic.  If it makes it easier for you, click the link for an auto-translation:   Francais Espanol Deut...

It's come up again, I welcome your comments after any post.  Due to the spammers I have to manually approve them.  If it's not spam,...

Karl Phillips sent in more airchecks from Kevlevik.   "Before I joined the Navy in 1970 I was a part time gofer at WQXI 790 in ...

Thanks for stopping by, most people that visit heard about this from a friend.  Thank you for sharing it.  Some of us worked at the station...

Larry Rideout used to do the Dufflebag Show from Hamburg.  In 1973 from Bremerhaven Larry featured Country music on The American Music Hal...

Every three weeks or so Mark White, Rik De Lisle, Peter Dolle, Stan Green and Bill Gaylord get together for lunch at the Europa to look ba...

  So what's on the Hitline?  Phil Bowls and Ken Hissong have an update!!   AFKN Hitline - Phil Bowls, Ken Hissong 1968

The Whistler went on the network during World War II more or less continuously.  We were still running it 40 years later. This is a 19...

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   Chip Barus checks in: "Stumbled across your website while looking for FEN archives to check on an on-air personality from the 79...

Lee Bayley Birth: May 17, 1939 Siloam Springs Benton County Arkansas, USA Death: Feb. 17, 2013 Tyler Smith County Texas, USA ...

Another great aircheck from the George Schilli collection.  George grew up listening to AFN and became a broadcaster.  These were great teac...

19:11 EST Sunday 26 JAN Dear AFNers All: 　 Spoke to Sandy a short time ago and there is mixed news about our Colonel's progress...

 B U L L E T I N COL. CRANSTON SUFFERS CARDIAC ARREST: RETURNED Posted by: "Andrew N Guthrie" TurtleLover64@aol.com gut...

Country Pete Pete went to a lot of our stations in Alaska, Korea and Germany.  Writer, musician (even played with Stonewall Jackson...

MEDIA ALERTS TO INSURE APPROPRIATE COVERAGE OF COLONEL CRANSTON'S E Posted by: "Andrew N Guthrie" TurtleLover64@aol.c...

  237th birthday of the Corps.  Here's how the network celebrated it 60 years ago.   AFRS They Turned the Tide - 1st Marine Div...

    Spooky spooky .  Robert Barker sent along the first part of another great aircheck: This is the first 30 minute segment of fo...

  Carl Balduf, Roy Johnson, Chuck Droege, Hans Huber, Don Shipman, Ted Pasco and Kurt Loch in the 1963 AFN Kaiserslatern production o...