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Now known as the American Forces Network-Japan (AFN-Japan), with the disestablishment in 1997 of the Far East Network, this network provides military members, Department of Defense civilian employees, and State Department diplomatic personnel and their families with news, information and entertainment by over-the-air radio and TV, and by base cable television.
During the 1950s and 1960s, AFN had large civilian audiences in Europe, as European radio stations rarely played American music. In Communist countries, all radio stations were state-operated, and never played American music. Despite the language barrier, the people in those countries saw AFN as an alternative connection to the West.
The list of radio stations in Japan lists all the national/regional radio stations in Japan. Because of governmental regulation, Japan has a relatively small number of radio stations. Japan also has a comparatively smaller number of radio listeners nationwide than most other developed countries as well as countries in the geographic region .
AFN Prime is the main channel of the American Forces Network.The channel feed airs current sitcoms, dramas, syndicated court shows, talk shows, game shows and reality shows popular in the United States, from U.S. over-the-air and cable networks, with a time delay from 24 hours to six months or more behind the United States airdates.
HS 1 AS Radio (Bureau of the Royal Household) MCOT Radio; MOE Radio; Office of the NBTC Radio (but use the name '1 Por Nor Radio') Radio Thailand; Royal Thai Air Force Radio; Royal Thai Army Radio Network (127 Stations) The 1st Division, King's Guard Radio Station; TV5 Radio (only service served in Bangkok) Saranrom Radio (Ministry of Foreign ...
In his speech, the director Gotō Shinpei listed the objectives that radio should pursue within the context of Japanese society: to create equal cultural opportunities (universally sharing the benefits of radio and likewise eliminating the boundaries between city and countryside, age groups, genders and social classes), to bring a new splendour to domestic life (families could spend time at ...
FM Okinawa (エフエム沖縄) is an FM radio station in Okinawa, Japan. The station is an affiliate of the Japan FM Network (JFN). It started broadcasting on September 1, 1984, replacing its existing AM radio station Far East Broadcasting (極東放送) which started broadcasting in February 1958. The station is also receivable at Yoronjima ...
At the time, it signed on as the first non-military English-language radio station in Japan; the only English-language radio stations were part of the military Far East Network (FEN) of the U.S. Armed Forces Network (AFN). It was co-owned with a Japanese-language station, KSAR, [2] which had been established in 1950 as AKAR under the auspices ...