The American Forces Network plans to launch more than two
dozen Internet radio streams Tuesday, greatly expanding the reach of the
military network’s radio programming overseas.
According to Stars & Stripes, nearly every AFN radiostation in Europe and the Pacific will get its own online stream, enabling
listeners to hear their local stations through computers and mobile devices.
Another seven streams from the AFN broadcast center in
California will carry a variety of options already available through satellite
decoders, including talk, country, urban, classic rock, top-40 and adult hits.
AFN’s PowerNet service — broadcast on AM in most locales — will also be
accessible through the service.
“This is something that makes us relevant again in the arena
of radio,” said Keith Fenske, AFN Europe’s chief of Web operations and
architect of the online services. The expansion of the network’s online
services “gets us out there so that people aren’t limited by their distance
from a transmitter” or by technical constraints that prevent some Americans
from being able to tune in their local stations.
The services will be accessible through the network’s Europe
and Pacific region websites — anfeurope.net and afnpacific.net — and through
its mobile applications, available for free through iTunes and the Google Play
store.
Listeners in countries where AFN is authorized to broadcast
will have access to all streams coming from the network’s broadcast center as
well as stations in their region. The system blocks listeners in Europe from
streaming broadcasts from the Pacific and vice versa by determining the
location of his or her computer or mobile device.
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