European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 11, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                From the cover associated press reports. A a in a just done the weather for the night and was just about to in ave a Hansen recalled. A then i got word that the War started. I put it on autopilot and started calling everyone and letting them know what was going on. Within an hour this place was packed with people. Every 15 minutes or so id break in with a the War has started. Stay tuned to  i did no to get out of Here until three hours  the an staff survived that War and now its battling an enemy of a different Type. Popularity among european listeners. Before the War Afna Sam programming Cen Ter cd on Rock a a Rock if you re keeping score a with a tinge of top 40 programming tossed in for Good measure. After much thought col. Zachary Fowler the network commander pushed a a Best mix Quot approach for music on the stations programming. Now the pm Side of an station operates As a top 40 station with a few specially shows to quench the musical thirsts of its demographics. Why change a what we did was Widen the demographics a Little bit a Fowler said. Quot the evolution was correspondent with the War and we started getting a lot of requests from our listeners. And that a what you want to do. Play the music your listeners want to hear. We got a whole lot of requests for songs that we weren to playing on a Rock and we were getting a lot of Calls from people who did no to fit into the. 18 to 25-demographic. A now we Are the Best mix a the Best of the old and the new. A Rock had a narrow casting Type of format that would have worked say if we were in Philadelphia with 18 other radio stations. In Europe we Only have one station so we wanted to offer music that would satisfy As Many tastes As we could. A Are we there yet in a not sure if we re exactly where we want to by yet but we re getting  getting there in this Case Means a new package on both the am and pm frequencies. The am frequency offers National Public radio shows such As All things considered and morning edition. It also airs locally produced programs such As Hansen Sam edition a a news information music show that airs weekday mornings from 5 to 9. The am band also carries sports a the concept for the news show was already in place a said Hansen whose last show was Friday and who will leave an in september for warmer climates in new Mexico. A the Day the War started the whole concept of the show got blown out because we had news on 24 hours a  Hansen 26, a former local news Anchor for an to debuted on am edition about two months ago at the direction of Fowler and Bob Kramer the radio operations manager. A we wanted to have the morning show so that every 15 minutes you can hear what the top headlines of the Day Are a Fowler said. A a we be got a different audience. You got some Guys who Are doing it physical training at 5 in the morning and others who Are just waking up. We re trying to catch a transient  an Europe operates 10 affiliate stations offering service throughout Central Europe the United kingdom Belgium and the Netherlands affiliate stations Are in Frankfurt Berlin Kai spec. John Hansen said Good morning and goodbye to Europe for the last time Friday before rotating. Ser Slauter Nurnberg Stuttgart Bremerhaven Munich shape Wurzburg and Soester Borg . Bases receive Afna Sam feed through a Cable system. . Listeners thus hear an radio on their to sets. An started on Independence Day in 1943 under emergency conditions surrounding world War ii. Using British broadcasting corp. Facile a tics the first radio broadcasts included nearly five hours of recorded shows a bbl newscast and a sportscast. As the War escalated an London was established at the bbl studios. Nazi Buzz bombs repeatedly knocked the station off the air so an London abandoned its original bbl studios and moved across town in May 1944. The american network combined with the bbl and the Canadian broadcasting corp. To form the Allied expeditionary forces programs. Upon the liberation of Belgium France Luxembourg and the Netherlands an stations popped up in Paris Nice Marseilles reims be Havre Cannes and Biarritz. With the nazi surrender came the establishment of Afna a affiliates in Germany. An Munich was established on june 8, 1945, and on july 15 of that same year Frankfurt joined the network. Bremen and Berlin affiliates followed and by August the Headquarters was moved to Frankfurt. On dec. 31, 1945, an London signed off the air and All the stations in France were closed until 1958, when an France was reestablished while gis were stationed in Orleans Camp Des loges Poitiers Verdun and Dreux a. In 1967, an France was turned off and shut Down As a result of Frances withdrawal from nato. Seven years later an shape went on the air. Today an Europe provides to and radio service to More than 650,001 people. With a base list Norship of that size a a you Repage 4 a sunday August 11. 1991