An unusual aircheck with four short segments from various Friday “Afternoon Power Shows.”  

This is an unusual aircheck featuring four short segments from various Friday “Afternoon Power Shows.”  These four, along with two other segments of different shows still to be linked, were on a CD that was transferred from a large open-reel aircheck tape.  The four segments are the very end of the shows with different announcers.  Rob Heard is first with the end of the Friday, 5 Mar 93 show; next, Joanne Vurgun is on an aircheck with a real short “end of show” segment which is believed to be from 19 Mar 93; Rob Heard is back with the longest Friday segment from 15 Jan 93; and the last short Friday segment is from Friday,   18 Dec 1992 with Bill Boyd.  These “bits and pieces” were saved because, fortunately, we never “bulk erased” the one aircheck tape used for “checking” the Friday afternoon shows; it’s obvious, we just recorded over and over on the tape, and these end of show segments remained on the end of the open-reel audio tape.       



AFN Bremerhaven - Four Different "End of Show" Friday Segments

AFN Bremerhaven Morning Power Show - Tue 30 Mar 93 - Take 2 - Day before the “last day.”

There is another version with part of this program on the AFN Bremerhaven Soundcloud site which was uploaded in 2014, and as noted on that segment, it’s believed that it was recorded by a listener in Denmark who was some distance from the Bremerhaven AM/MW signal’s transmitter.  On that early example, the “morning, pre-sunrise” signal is distorted, fading in-and-out.  The early part of the program was most likely not available because of signal distortion.  Also, at the end of the first version, there’s an added dedication to the Denmark listener, John Patrick Olsen, who sent the initial-version cassette tape to AFN.  

This version, from the station's aircheck tape, contains the Rob Heard, solo-hosted, pre-dawn portion, as well as the rest of the show running till 9 a.m.  So, even though it’s shorter in length than the early link (less music), this is a more complete and “clearer” aircheck of AFN Bremerhaven's "day-before-the-last-day" morning program. 


AFN Bremerhaven Morning Power Show - Tue 30 Mar 93 - Take 2 - Day before the “last day.”

An AFN Bremerhaven Morning Power Show, original airdate 1 Dec 1992.  

An AFN Bremerhaven Morning Power Show, original airdate 1 Dec 1992.  Rob and Bill host this Wednesday morning show segment.  Mike Ramsey is on-board with an “AFN Sports Page” trivia question, there’s a classic “Rock Reading” with Granny Gore (Mike Burnette), a song about a new dad entering “The Baby Zone” is heard, Rob plays the “AFN Birthday Game,” James Brown concert tickets are given away, and “Army Sergeant Retired Mel Wittamore” (Susan Budzyna/Klein) drops by with “his” world famous “recipe” for making homemade liquid soap.   


AFN Bremerhaven Morning Power Show, original airdate 1 Dec 1992.

AFN Frankfurt FM "Rock Garden" Show.  An "Oldies" program, original airdate 2 Dec 1981.

AFN Frankfurt FM -- A "Rock Garden" Program from 2 Dec 81

AFN Bremerhaven -- Thanksgiving Day Special Program -- Airdate Thurs 22 Nov 90.

A segment of an AFN Bremerhaven 1990 Special Thanksgiving Day Program with Mike and Bill.  Original airdate was Thursday, 22 Nov 1990.  The program features greetings and dedications from US military leaders and from US Army and US Air Force military members stationed in Norddeutschland (NDL) as activities were underway in Northern Germany in support of “Operation Desert Shield” which would eventually become “Operation Desert Storm,” the First Gulf War.  The program features spots and features from Susan Budzyna (Klein), Mark Boylan, Mike Burnette, Bill Boyd, and Glen Wolf.  There’s also a few short segments from AP top-of-the-hour newscasts mentioning a few historical events. The program is edited “on the fly” with a few rough edits.  

AFN Bremerhaven Thanksgiving Day Special from Thurs 22 Nov 90

AFN Bremerhaven was an Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS) station located in northern Germany.  Just after WWII ended in Europe, it was originally established in Bremen, Germany as a small AM radio station with an AM repeater transmitter also broadcasting the station's signal in Bremerhaven, Germany.  AFN Bremen's first broadcast occurred on Saturday, 28 July 1945.  In 1949, the station moved from the city of Bremen north to the port city of Bremerhaven and went from being radio-only "AFN Bremen" to becoming "AFN Bremerhaven" with both AM and FM radio and TV operations.  Starting in 1989, with major changes underway in Europe linked to the "fall of the Soviet Union," and with a major drawdown of US military forces in Germany, the AFN Europe network underwent major changes in its mission.  The need for many long-running affiliate stations in various German cities diminished.  With fewer US troops in northern Germany, the mission for AFN Bremerhaven came to a close.  On 31 March 1993, AFN Bremerhaven made its last live  broadcasts with a local morning show followed by a network-wide show, and after 48 years of operation, the AFN Bremerhaven affiliate went "off the air." (This site uplinks various radio airchecks and samples of other broadcast products produced during the last years of the station's operation.  Currently, there are also historical radio airchecks from AFN Wuerzburg, AFN Stuttgart, AFN Munich, AFN Kaiserslatern, AFN Frankfurt, and AFN Soesterberg posted on this site.)

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