AFN Sigonella provides 8-hours of live Eagle radio, direct from our studios, everyday on Live shows run a. During non-live times, AFN Sigonella broadcasts network programming from Germany along with popular Eagle music from back in the States.
AFN Sigonella also broadcasts on Powernet If you have an idea for a news story or commercial, or need to publicize an event, simply fill out the online publicity request and let us know! Commander, Navy Installations Command. Naval Air Station Sigonella. News Sigonella News The Signature. Find Your Region or Installation. Armed Forces Network. Captain Kevin Pickard Jr.
Tenant Commands. Commander Task Force Welcome Aboard Biographies. Captain Hayes began a lengthy search through military personnel records to find suitable men for the job. The team he came up with consisted of four officers and 13 enlisted men. The small team set up transmitters, outfitted their studio, and created a programming plan. AFN had three objectives: To broadcast American entertainment, to cooperate with training, educational and religious projects of the Army, and to assist the American soldier and sailor in adjusting to his new environment.
Crucially…many of the hosts would be soldiers already in uniform. To great success almost immediately: seven transmitters broadcast the programs, but it expanded so rapidly that within a year AFN could be heard far and wide with the help of over 50 additional transmitters across Great Britain.
The broadcast day expanded to 19 hours during the next months and six more soldiers joined the original staff of on-air hosts and technicians. A large amount of the content was provided by the Armed Forces Radio Service. The AFRS had been established in spring of as a worldwide radio service to give the military listeners the news from home, along with top notch entertainment by recording their own shows as well as transferring appealing programs from other commercial stations.
The amount of radio program "transcription" recordings pressed monthly for AFRS was 7, by January , and increased to , by October Transcriptions were prepared commercial free for AFN. Instead, AFN aired public service announcements that included a variety of advice and calls to action, such as buying war bonds, sending V-Mail, maintaining cleanliness, and so on.
Virtually all the big names of radio and film appeared at least once in this production, which ran until the end of the War. Image courtesy of the Harry S. Performers on stage for a live performance recording for the Armed Forces Radio Service. She was the on-air persona of Martha Wilkerson, hosting a DJ music program playing the most popular records.
The Jubilee Program was distinctive and innovative in many ways. It was directed toward African American soldiers and included some of the best wartime live-jazz performances. AFRS was churning out an astounding amount of shows of great quality. But it was not only the pre-produced programs from Hollywood that were aired and were successful with the GI listener base. The year-old from Ohio had radio experience and was found peeling potatoes as a private at an Army Camp when Hayes was looking for people to work at his new network.
The daily two-hour show received over fan mail music requests each week! All in all, AFN was a huge success. American soldiers loved their own network as an audible link to home. For a moment, their business of carrying on the war could be pushed into the background. British listeners appreciated the station, too. Older listeners were reminded of the eclectic and innovative Radio Luxembourg of the past, younger listeners loved AFN for the music and the relaxed style it presented.
In fact, AFN is known to have sparked the love for music in none other than the likes of youthful Van Morrison, Robert Plant, and many of their contemporaries. With the preparations for the invasion of Europe came the question of combined broadcasting for the Allied troops.
General Eisenhower was concerned that the Allied forces display unity. It, too, had been gearing up for D-Day. Mobile broadcast vans were prepared, and their operators briefed and trained to accompany the troops across the Channel. When the actual invasion began, AFN programs were beamed to battlefronts via long-wave transmitters from the BBC, and then re-transmitted by mobile vans that were attached to the various units.
They reported activities on front line and fed the news reports back to headquarters in London. Broadcasting from the moving front came with its perils, and bombings were a daily occurrence. The Seventh Army mobile unit was strafed regularly and Sgt.
Shortly thereafter, Sgt. Pete Parris, an AFN news correspondent, was killed while accompanying a paratrooper unit into France. It was founded in early June from a mobile unit attached to the Seventh Army. The house had been used by Nazi Gauleiter Adolf Wagner, who had a radio station and link to a transmitter installed in order to broadcast air raid warnings. Since neither the house nor the broadcast system had suffered major damage, it was a perfect setup for AFN to start operation in —albeit with a famous blunder:.
The castle quickly became the most remembered and well-loved location AFN ever had, from which they aired the country music show Stickbuddy Jamboree, among others.
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