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From: Doug Jennings (via Facebook)
Dated: February 2019
Subject: Conv - Using a TV Cannel for Radio
Is it possible that the up-country detachments operated at 560 on the dial and referred to themselves as "channel 56"? At the begining of this newscast from 1969, AFVN-AM is "Channel 56 AM."
For AFVN Radio News with SP4 Bruce Dadd on March 29th, 1969: Click here
Doug Jennings
From: Dick Ellis
Dated: February 25, 2019
Subject: Broadcast Question
We have a radio station here at 850 on the dial....they call it “Channel 85 “ and even have jingles. Channel was popular with radio stations about that time.
Dickie
From: Mike Jackson
Dated: February 25, 2019
Subject: Broadcast Question
Thank you sir.
MikeJ
Using TV Channels for Broadcasting Radio
February and June 2019
From: Larry Crider
Dated: February 25, 2019
Subject: Broadcast Question
Don't know if your asking me (Larry Crider) or addressing the other "Larry" (Larry Green) but I never did any other work with AFN besides my brief stint at AFVN.
From: Mike Jackson
Dated: February 25, 2019
Subject: Broadcast Question
Larry, did you ever do a tour at AFN Europe?
MikeJ
From: Larry Crider
Dated: February 24, 2019
Subject: Broadcast Question
Forgot to add that the fellow 4th ID troop said the program he remembers with Bob Harrison and "Mary the record librarian" was called "the Highland Fling". I left Dragon Mountain in August of '69 and the guy who asked me about it says he heard this program from Nov of '68 to Mar of '69. He was wondering if it really was an AFVN program, especially since the radio announcer said it was on "channel 56".
From: Bob Wilford
Dated: February 25, 2019
Hello, Larry. Bob Wilford here, Pleiku FEB-August 1969. Your friend heard Channel 56 because that’s who we were. Several Jingles posted on the web site carry that tag, as well as some CDs I’ve bought and my own air checks. One of the engineers explained to me how the radio used a tV designation but I didn;dt understand it then and forgot it by now. I remember you well,, although you told me on phone a few years back you did not remember me. I am attaching a photo that may jog your memory. I don not remember any Harrison, but have forgotten the name of a very talented guy who did “voices” and I think he mentioned doing a show as a librarian.He did a show as a farmer once with a heavy southern drawl. Could have been.. Do YOU have any photos by chance of the TV studio after it was literally blown up in enemy attack in late May of 69? Or know any details of a helicopter crash same night? Or of a second chopper crash inn late July at which Lt. Cutlip and others were involved in a rescue of personnel? Anything from your memory you can recall?
Bob Wilford
From: Bob Wilford
Dated: February 25, 2019
Subject: Broadcast Question
Do you mind sharing with me what your memories are?
From: Jim White
Dated: February 25, 2019
Subject: Broadcast Question
Larry Crider,
I know you have furnished something to Joe Green on the MACOI site, but could you also write something and send more photos for the AFVNVETS.net site? If so, email them to me care of the Webmaster address shown below or on our website.
Thanks,
Jim White
From: Larry Crider
Dated: February 25, 2019
Subject: Broadcast Question
Bob: Larry Crider here - not Larry Green. I was there during the attack but didn't have a camera or anything to take pictures with. What was confusing to me about the "channel 56" was that I thought I remembered we were "channel 11".
From: Larry Green
Dated: February 25, 2019
Subject: Broadcast Question
Morning Bob, Can't help you with any pics of Pleiku, because I was never there. Also, can't remember any jocks who regularly portrayed a variety of characters while on the air. But that was a long time ago, so specific memories can get lost in the noggin. Sorry I couldn't fill in your blanks.
Larry Green 68-70
From: Larry Green
Dated: February 25, 2019
Subject: Broadcast Question
Nope. Just two years at AFVN and then six months early out of the Army. And I don't know the other Larry (Crider) that also responded to you.
Larry Green
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