As the American military presence in Vietnam increased,
AFRTS opened radio and later television stations there. During the
Vietnam War, the first broadcasts were beamed to the ground from
fully equipped flying studios operated by the United States Navy.
AFRTS stations in Vietnam were initially known by the name "AFRS"
(Armed Forces Radio Saigon), but as the number of stations quickly
expanded throughout South Vietnam became known as "AFVN"
(American Forces Vietnam Network) and had several stations including
Nha Trang, Pleiku, Da Nang, with the headquarters station in Saigon.
In Vietnam, AFVN had a number of war related casualties. The station
staff at Hue had been captured and spent time as prisoners of war.
At the height of American involvement in the war, Armed Forces Vietnam
Network served over 500,000 fighting men and women at one time.
For Vietnam AFVN developed a program along the lines of "G.I.
Jive" from World War II. A number of local disc jockeys helped
make hour-long music programs for broadcast. Perhaps the best known
program became the morning "Dawn Buster" program, (the
brainchild of Chief Petty Officer Bryant Arbuckle in 1962) thanks
to the popularity of the sign-on slogan "Gooooood Morning,
Vietnam" (which was initiated by Adrian Cronauer and later
became the basis for the film Good Morning Vietnam starring Robin
Williams). Among the notable people who were AFVN disc jockeys were
Cronauer and Pat Sajak. Beginning in 1971 AFVN began to close some
stations in Vietnam. The last station to close was in Saigon in
1973.
This collection of Armed Forces Vietnam Radio episodes
includes 148 different shows and appearances for a total of 16+
hours of listening enjoyment. It includes a variety of live broadcasts
to our troops that sustained them during their days in vietnam with
useful educational public service announcements and a variety of
entertainment shows.
This product is a DVD collection of Old Time Radio mp3s. It is
designed to be played on your computer DVD drive with standard mp3
software - like Windows media player or its equivalent on Macintosh
computers. The mp3 files on the DVDs can be copied onto CDs for
play in your car stereo, home entertainment center, etc so you can
take your favorite shows with you anywhere you go.
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