AFN tweaking schedule, adding live news broadcasts (better balance of the amount of FOX News)

Stars and Stripes ^ | November 20, 2004 | Stars and Stripes

[Former Military Chick]

The American Forces Network will be making additions, shifting schedules and providing more live coverage on its television channels beginning Dec. 5.

The AFN News channel will be affected most by the changes. AFN will add some of the top programs from the FOX News Channel and live broadcasts of “Studio B with Shepard Smith” and “Your World with Neil Cavuto.” The Cavuto program will replace the seasonal CNN “Inside Politics.”

According to a statement by the Defense Media Center at March Air Reserve Base, Calif., there will be a better balance of the amount of FOX News available to the European and Asian prime-time audiences.

In Japan and South Korea, the live “FOX & Friends” broadcast will air, moving ABC’s “Good Morning America” from the AFN News channel to the AFN Prime Pacific channel. “Good Morning America” will replace the tape-delayed NBC “Today Show.”

In Europe, “CNN Live Today” will replace CBS’ “The Early Show” and CNN’s live “American Morning” show will be added. The children’s news program “Channel One” will move to the AFN Family channel.

Weekends everywhere will see more live news broadcasts, as well as more business shows, according to the Defense Media Center.

For complete schedules go to myafn.dodmedia.osd.mil.

[Former Military Chick]

Let me just say when I was in Germany, we would get many shows months after it first ran in the states. Glad to see more choices for our troops and their loved ones.

[Ginifer]

We used to call it AFARTS...since most of the stuff was so old you saw it before you left to go overseas. Glad to hear they are getting more up-to-date coverage. I'm sure they will like Cavuto a lot better than watching CNN.

[martin_fierro]

I looked, but didn't see Brit Hume's show on there.

They should dump that lame cadaver Larry King in favor of Brit!

[momf]

We watched 4 hours in Iran. It was wonderful to see anything from the States. The host country had Deputy Dawg but it was in Farsi. Funny even if we couldn't understand it.

[rawcatslyentist]

It's A_boutFN Time. CNN is just Aljazeera in english. Why should we demoralize our own troops?

Shut down the Alphabet Channels (ABJazerra & Her Sister Stations)!
Vote with your Remote!

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[CBart95]

How can anybody in uniform stomach the shmalttzy jive served up by Fox? Pretty news reader air-headed glamor "journalists" and know-nothing TV boys acting as if they understand what they are reading? All served up with typographic headlines that ask anti-American questions about every aspect of how the military and the administration is botching the war. It's sickening.

Kinda like Cops-Fallujah Style. It stinks.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Let me just say when I was in Germany, we would get many shows months after it first ran in the states.

This is true even today. I just got off the phone with a friend stationed in Australia, and they're just getting word that Kerry was in Vietnam. Could change the whole dynamic of the election. ;-)