Posted on 10/03/2013 1:53:00 PM PDT by Dacula
Since its inception in World War II, the American Forces Network has been the medium by which many United States military personnel stationed abroad get their news, entertainment and other forms of escapism, including sports. As of Monday, AFN was airing NFL and MLB broadcasts to troops overseas. Then Tuesday came and much of the AFN airwaves went silent — a victim of the shutdown.
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Pathetic—there’s no other word for it!
Yet Barry’s powder puff generals made sure that the academies played their games.
If BO was really serious about targeting a government tax sucking broadcast system, he'd be targeting PBS and all the left-wing commentators would be going dark.
We can get football games to our troops overseas, but we can’t save Americans in Benghazi? Maybe less football from Obama and the Democrats and a little more concern for dying Americans.
Of course the private enterprise system provides sattelite TV, and private radio system.
Generally the rule is bad money drives out good. The presence of subsidized AFN prevents a private TV station/radio/newspaper from meeting the demand.
Athletic Dept at Service Academies are not funded by the govt....so they should not be affected
We should be thankful the shut down has ended the broadcast of those violent football games to our troops. Who knows what affect observing that violence on the football field may have on them? It might even help them relax a bit.
(the previous is 98% sarcasm, only the last sentence is serious)
The AFN broadcasts are overseas, where there isn’t any competition in English. Unless you live in Britain. I remember when there was only 1 AFN channel in Germany and if you lived more than a couple of miles from the transmitter, you couldn’t receive it.
AFN is a dinosaur. It has always sucked, but, back in the day, sucking beat nothing.
Today, you can get almost anything online and there is really no need for it. As a comm troop, I can tell you AFN ain’t what’s on soldier’s personal computers.
If the major sports leagues cared about PR, they’d make the games available to servicemen abroad for free on TV and the internet.
United airlines offered the Air force academy free tickets to their game.
Oh yeah, there was a $4 million TV contract on the line as well.
obama needs to save money on football broadcasts to our men in afghanistan to he can afford his security detail while he plays 18 at Congressional
Our troops aren’t stupid. They can get live streams of their favorite sports team on various Spanish websites and hahabar.com websites out of London. Don’t need AFN.
I suppose that is the point:
With AFN providing rotten service, there is no incentive for a private company to provide better service.
Certanly overseas companies are capable of running a radio station in English.
Information and entertainment are essential. This is Obama’s and his minions, led by Harry Reid taking unnecessary steps in an attempt to stir the public against the Republicans. Of course, what can be expected of a anti-military president, et al?
Are NPR and Sesame Street still on the air?
PBS-Public Broadcasting Service
San Antonio news covering furloughed workers and vets protesting at Ted Cruz’s office here.
So they finally found a way to throw Rush off, after all these years?
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