Back in the day, FEN was about our only source of entertainment and news.
You are talking about FEN radio, right? We had TV when I was at Sasebo and then Atsugi from 1990-2004 but even at that time all we had was AFRTS/FEN most of that period. Sasebo got on base cable with commercial stateside channels in the late ‘90s, Atsugi in 2002 or ‘03, don’t remember exactly when now. I still listened to AFN in the car. Japanese radio sucked, too much talking, not enough music.