(From the "Stars & Stripes" )
Americans living in Europe can say goodbye to the U.S. military’s free, over-the-air TV programming.
The Pentagon’s over-the-air TV signals throughout Europe are scheduled to go off air by 2010. The change will force some Americans living off base to buy, borrow or lease, a satellite dish and receiver to get American Forces Network programming.
Bases in Italy will lose the signal first, when the free AFN channel broadcast is shut down by the end of the year, said Andy Friedrich, deputy for the American Forces Radio and Television Service headquarters in Washington.
Signals in Germany and Belgium will go down four years later.
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Americans living in Europe can say goodbye to the U.S. military’s free, over-the-air TV programming.
The Pentagon’s over-the-air TV signals throughout Europe are scheduled to go off air by 2010. The change will force some Americans living off base to buy, borrow or lease, a satellite dish and receiver to get American Forces Network programming.
Bases in Italy will lose the signal first, when the free AFN channel broadcast is shut down by the end of the year, said Andy Friedrich, deputy for the American Forces Radio and Television Service headquarters in Washington.
Signals in Germany and Belgium will go down four years later.
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