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Radio station broadcasts in Iraq

Jun-19-2004 » Filed Under: 3/2 SBCT

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By NICK ROGERS, ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT WRITER

When Radio TFO-FM 94.6 signed on for broadcast at Camp Freedom in Mosul, Iraq, most of the American troops stationed there thought it was a joke.

Brian Pierce and Kellie Michaels, morning DJs on WNNS-FM 98.7, took to the lunch-hour airwaves Friday to show their seriousness for sending soldiers songs of the '70s.

"This is the no-joke voice of Camp Freedom," Pierce belted out to open Friday's "I Love the '70s Lunch" broadcast, which will be burned to compact discs and sent to Camp Freedom.

The 139th Military Public Affairs Detachment, half of whose troops are based at Camp Lincoln, Springfield's National Guard headquarters, has set up Radio TFO for broadcast there.

According to Michaels, her and Pierce's segment will be the first American radio show recorded and sent to Iraq for radio rebroadcast.

"You could fit the amount of equipment required to broadcast FM in a trunk," Pierce said. "And the studio's probably not even a studio, but a five-disc CD changer plugged directly into a little transmitter that goes out 40 miles. Probably every major group over there has the capability.

Cool.


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