European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes Friday september 23, 1977 an shape proud of its radio service by Jim Colonna staff writer shape Belgium is an shape with three disc jockeys providing the sounds of town provides radio entertainment for american service people stationed in Belgium and the Netherlands. The station Here is the Only one connected with the an network in Frankfurt operating outside of Germany according to Hal Kelly the an shape director. We Are also totally pm Kelly said. We provide five and a Quarter hours of local programming during the week and a Little under three hours on the weekends. The station which was first opened in february 1974, now has two pm frequencies of which one is a 24-hour, computer operated easy listening station similar to the pm provided out of Frankfurt Stutt Gart and Berlin. That system is completely automated. We put on three tapes which feature a Vari Ety of musical entertainment and then pro Gram the computer to play the tapes. Well play a few selections from one tape and have the computer switch to another and so Forth. Then it is programmed to automatically Cut off for news feeds and other special announcements that originate from Here and an Frankfurt Kelly said. Kelly said the shape military audience is estimated at about 14,000, comprised of personnel stationed in shape and Brus Sels in Belgium and Oesterberg Bruns sum maastricht and Volkel the Netherlands. The station operates 24 hours daily through eight transmitters that serve a radius of 10-20 Miles Kelly said. The local programming is operated Sim Ilar to the local German based an Affili ates in Stuttgart Munich Niernberg and Kaiserslautern the vast majority of programming comes out of Frankfurt s head quarters with the remainder being done by the local djs. Kelly s Pride and Joy is the 24-hour pm the name s the same an listeners in shape Belgium get a double dose of disc jockeys name Swisher. They hear Bill Swisher on the an today show out of Frankfurt daily then local do Robert Swisher no rela Tion to Bill on the an shape music off the record program locally produced. Is photo by Jim Cole big fines for Italy speeders Vicenza Italy italian police have found a Gold mine in their new Campaign to enforce Speed limits with fines running As High As 600,000 lira about $680setae officials Here said. In Rome last weekend 80 speeders contributed a total of 10,500,000 lira nearly $12,000according to local press reports. Coinciding with the crackdown is the Purchase of new sophisticated radar equipment setae added. Fines for exceeding the Speed limit by one to 10 Kilometres per hour Range from 20,000 to 40,000 lira. The Fine for exceeding the limit by More than 10 Kilometres per hour ranges from 100,000 to 600,000 lira $680. Where Speed limits Aren t posted they Are normally 130 Kilometres per hour on the Autostrada and 100 on state highways. Station. We have had a tremendous amount of Success with it he said. Everything is done automatically. All we do is program it and let it run. It provides a Good source of counter entertainment especially when you consider our listening  pm station is Only available to the local personnel at shape. Kelly pointed out that because of the uniqueness of the Headquarters Here the listening audience is out of line from the other stations in Europe. Only about six per cent of our listening audience Falls in the 17 to 20-year-old bracket while averages elsewhere Are 14 25 per  a recent Survey also showed that 54 per cent of the shape listening audience is Over 24, the highest in the an network. Shape also has the lowest concentration of Blacks and the highest of Whites. In rank 56 per cent of the shape audience is e5 or above. That too is the highest of an audiences. And there is one other difference the time difference. We hear Milt Fullerton say it s 7 ., time for the news Well Here it is 8  During the summer and that throws everybody off Kelly said. And shape listeners get a double dose of Swisher. Bill Swisher who does the an today program daily out of Frankfurt is heard Here along with local broadcaster Robert Swisher not a relative who does the local music off the record program in the late afternoons. The arthritis foundation the arthritis foundation Lead the attack on this devastating crippling disease that afflicts Over 20 million men women and children in America. 1978 Dod combined Federal Campaign overseas area 1978 National health agencies american red Cross this is a stars and stripes Public service advertisement