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Article: No World Series on Armed Forces Radio this year

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CrankyYankee

(From the "Stars & Stripes")

For the first time in 60 years, the American Forces Network will not provide a radio broadcast of the World Series to U.S. servicemembers and civilians stationed overseas.

Not since the St. Louis Cardinals bested the Boston Red Sox in the 1946 World Series has the Fall Classic been absent from network’s radio lineup.

“People don’t listen to sports on the radio,” said Larry Sichter, an AFN spokesman at the network’s broadcast center in Riverside, Calif. “There is no plan to air the World Series on radio.”

Read more at the following link:

http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=39911&archive=true
 
AFRTS has dropped ALL radio play-by-play

I read a news blip of 2-3 paragraphs on this a few months ago. I'm surprised it hasn't gotten more attention given where the US military is stationed these days.

AFRTS once had a heavy sports schedule for radio -- Monday Night Football, World Series, college bowl games, Super Bowl, Daytona 500, NCAA Final Four, Indianapolis 500, NBA Finals, plus lots of local teams' PxP. Whenever a broadcast went out on AFRTS the announcers always gave a shout-out to those listening overseas.
 
that is thoroughly un-American!.....(almost as un-American as the guy making the torture reference on this page)
 
NFL Football did pretty well in their research - I surprised they aren't keeping NFL football play-by-play on:


http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=36735&archive=true

Future military radio menu could be more pop, less talk

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By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Saturday, June 3, 2006

According to the Lund Media Research Survey of AFR listeners, few have interest in hearing game broadcasts of major American sports, with the exception of football.

Listened to a game in the last six months:
Football - 30.2%
Basketball - 13.1%
Baseball - 10.3%
Hockey - 3.5%
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