AFRTS Archive

Small World was a lot like Monitor, light music, interesting features tied together with talent.  George Church was the first host (discover...

Pete with Willie Nelson (on the left)   Pete Pittman was on AFRTS in Korea, Germany and Alaska.  Did the mandatory PAO time and even ...

Stephen Weber brings us this memory.  It's 1969, the 24th anniversary of FEN and a Wonderful Weekend with Jim Harmon.  Jim was also the...

Lionel Barrymore had a great love of classical music.  He wanted to do something for the troops.  Starting in WWII he hosted Concert Ha...

You can't tell the story of AFRTS without the Grand Old Opry. The Opry comes from WSM Nashville and started in the 1920s.  It was t...

As part of the education mission AFRTS would repackage classic stories that were broadcast on US radio.  This is James Fenimore Coopers stor...

Hard to believe it's been almost 20 years since AFN Berlin.  In 1994 it was the last day. AFN Berlin - Gale Anderson - last mor...

In the record libraries from the 1950s there wasn't much rock.  This 1958 pizza platter (16" disk) would have been sandwiched ...

Tony Booth has spent over 50 years in radio.  In 1969 mornings at AFKN.  I had a chance to talk with Tony... Tony Booth - 2014 ...

Recently Brian Hartzell found a cassette from his AFKN time in 1973.  Bits and pieces from the network. Bobby Zix was a legend.  When I...

This is a 1963 station listing from the Broadcast Guide.  They list the networks separately: Alaska Network (AN) American Forces ...

Everywhere we did community programming, carnivals, fairs, blooddrives.  This was a February day in 1971.  AFRS Adak TV and radio covering ...

The "Words and Music" program was usually a pretty girl reading poetry.  Sounds like a winning formula. Here's Aust...

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After WWII, BDN,  Blue Danube Network was in Austria.  In 1955 American Forces left the country.  From 1954 BDNs Bill Murray tells us a...

Selena Royal After WWII AFRS had to battle to be relevant.  At this time they took the "Information and Education" part of ...

  The radio show was hosted by  Thomas E Jones.  he was the station manager of AFRTS Keflavik Iceland The show was on air du...

Melody Roundup brought top Western talent.  This time with Bob Nolan and the Sons of the Pioneers.   Hard to tell what the source mat...

Martha Wilkinson was one of the first big stars of AFRS.  During WWII there was a show called "GI Jive", one of the DJ shows....

By the early 1950s radio had changed.  Prior to that the networks were doing great comedy, mystery variety shows and AFRTS could clip the c...

We're back on the air.  About a week ago Comcast pushed out an update that killed my Motorola SGB6580.  I managed to get it back to defa...

Paul Bottoms  let me know about this: "Adrian Cronauer, Tony Booth who was at AFKN in Korea and I gave a presentation in February 201...

Here's live coverage from FEN August 5th and 6th 1964 of the Gulf of Tonkin, pretty much the beginning of the Vietnam War.     ...

From Munich, Bill Swisher brings us the "Weekend World" 29 Nov 1970 AFN Weekend World - November 1970 hour one AF...

During the 1940s there were a lot of programs on the stateside networks that were educational, in a good way.  The best of these were repack...

Time for good morning, 1993 style.  Here's Bill Boyd at the "PowerStation" AFN Bill Boyd 1993

In 1962 the network sent out their 20th anniversary broadcast.  Marvin Miller does a wonderful job.  Only thing that puzzles me is the ...

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