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From EETIMES [www.eetimes.com]
WASHINGTON-The days of sitting around the
barracks listening to a ballgame on the radio are apparently over.
The Defense Department said Wednesday (July
5) it is discontinuing later this summer play-by-play radio broadcasts of
sporting events. The reason?
Armed Forces Radio "audiences prefer to
watch the greater variety of sports on television rather than listen to them on
the radio," Robert Matheson, director of broadcasting at the AFN Broadcast
Center (Riverside, Calif.) said in a Pentagon statement. "When radio sports
coverage comes on, most listeners tune out."
Most AFN radio coverage of major sporting
events ended with the NBA championships in June. The radio finale will be a
NASCAR race from Richmond, VA, on Sept. 9.
The DoD network has been steadily expanding
TV sports coverage that is beamed to U.S. military posts around the world. The
network now carries about 80 events a week.
I wonder how those troopers in the field
think about this?
Art
Folsom, CA
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