European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 28, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 b the stars and stripes Friday february 28, 1992 radio to staff bowing to automation broadcasts to go on until americans quit Torrejon by j. King Cruger Mediterranean Bureau Torrejon a Spain a time is running out for the folks at det 6 of the european broadcasting so at Torrejon a outside Madrid. Two years ago the radio and television station had 30 staff members. There Are Only nine left and by late june they too will be gone As the station becomes fully automated. Although its staff will be gone the stations sights and sounds will continue according to air Force master sgt. Joseph p. Chiglinsky chief of det 6. A this station will not go off the air. It will cease being staffed in june but As Long As there Are americans remaining at Torrejon All the services radio and television they have now will remain a Chiglinsky said. Torrejon a american population is shrinking daily As part of a draw Down of . Forces in Spain. By fall the base will have an air Force Active duty population of roughly 450. Once it is fully automated det 6 will be a Remote site requiring occasional maintenance. That maintenance Chiglinsky said will be provided either by locally contracted technicians or by technicians from the european broadcasting so at Ramstein a Germany. As part of the draw Down at Torrejon det 6 ceased producing local to programs last May when it began broadcasting programs from the Southern european broadcasting network which has its Headquarters at Vicenza Italy. Det 6�?Ts television signal is sent via Cable to those on base. To viewers in the Royal Oaks housing area some 15 Miles from the base receive the stations signal via satellite Chiglinsky said. On base viewers receive two . Broadcast Standard or a tsp channels. One carries the seb feed and the other staff sgt. Genre Burns monitors a Southern european broadcasting feed at Torrejon Abs det 6 station near Madrid. A amps Dave Casey an unedited feed from the armed forces radio and television service plus three european broadcast Standard or pal channels can International the discovery Channel and the children Schanne Chiglinsky said. Viewers in Royal Oaks get Hentsc channels plus three pal channels screen sport sky one and sky news. Det 6 also operates a 24-hour radio station broadcasting Over the air on 100.2 pm. It airs locally originated programming from 6 . To 6 . The rest of the time it broadcasts programs taken from Sebus pm 106 or 107 services according to Chiglinsky. Det 6�?Ts radio signal reaches into Madrid a Northern suburbs about eight Miles from Torrejon. A we get a lot of feedback from our Spanish listeners a Chiglinsky said. A we have received Many Calls from them asking what is going to happen to the american radio  seeks to discharge 32 sailors on Missouri Long Beach Calif. A the Navy has moved to discharge 32 sailors aboard the battleship Missouri for alleged use of cocaine Ltd and other drugs. It. Cmdr. T. Mccreary the ships Public affairs officer said tuesday that the sailors confessed after being confronted with the evidence against them including witness accounts. No drugs were found aboard the ship he said. Other than honorable discharges a a Sanction less severe than a dishonourable discharge a were recommended by the ships commander capt. Lee Kaiss. The discharges Are subject to approval from the Pentagon. One of the sailors Eric Thibodeaux 22, of Boston accused the Navy of coercing confessions by threatening the 32 with Long prison terms. The Missouri was the site of the japanese surrender that ended world War ii and most recently saw action in the persian Gulf War. The ship is to be decommissioned March 31. An to leave Stuttgart in 93 for new Home in Mannheim airman s infant daughter Dies in italian Hospital Aviano a Italy a the 3-month-old daughter of an Aviano airman died tuesday morning at an italian Hospital. An autopsy was scheduled for wednesday to determine the cause of death of Jana Anderson the daughter of Gabriele and staff sgt. Mark c. Anderson. Anderson is assigned to Aviano a 40th Supply so. No further details were available said staff sgt. Austin Carter of the base Public affairs office. By Joseph Owen Stuttgart Bureau Stuttgart Germany a the american forces network Europe confirmed thursday that it plans to move its Stuttgart broadcasting studio to Mannheim in Early 1993. The new site is at Hammonds Barracks in Mannheim a Meckenheim District. But the radio station affiliate will be identified As an Heidelberg said a network spokesman air Force capt. Gary r. Carruthers. The Heidelberg military Community is renovating the affiliates new site. The affiliate will continue to broadcast to Stuttgart listeners using existing transmitters Carruthers said. Network officials began planning the move in 1990, when . Army Europe Headquarters told them that the military Community population of the Stuttgart area was going to decline he said. The revelation came less than two weeks after an closed its Munich broadcasting studio leaving the network with nine affiliates in Germany Belgium and the Netherlands. An also expects to close its Bremerhaven studio Carruthers acknowledged but no Date has been announced. The Stuttgart station now employs seven people two military broadcasters three technicians a one German a . Civilian and a service member a a German Secretary and the station manager army sgt. 1st class Marilyn j. Reich. A the idea is  go with us a Reich said of the studio staff. The staff was twice As Large before network wide personnel reductions took effect late last year Reich said. . Forces radio service in Stuttgart began in 1945 with a signal carried from the Munich studio. The first local studio opened March 17, 1948, in the Graf Zeppelin hotel in downtown Stuttgart. After 5�?T/2 years there and at another downtown location an Stuttgart moved in March 1959 to its current Home the second floor of an elementary school building at Robinson Barracks. The current site was about the most Central location an could expect in what remains a widely scattered military Community but it also posed several disadvantages. One former station manager complained frequently about jury rigged electrical wiring other safety deficiencies and the studios incompatibility with the school classes downstairs. An Stuttgart estimates that its target audience population in january was about 73,000 people. The move to Mannheim located in the Northwest Corner of the state of Baden Wiir Temberg reflects the army a continued rapid withdrawal from other parts of the state including Stuttgart. The station shut off its Schwabish a mind transmitter last year when the last . Troops left that City and it stopped service to Goppinger on feb. 20, Reich said. The army is scheduled to return Cooke Barracks its Only Post in Goppinger to the German government in a ceremony today. An Stuttgart now broadcasts at 1143 on the am band and 102.3 on the pm band in Stuttgart at 1143 am and 104.6 pm in Heidelberg at 1143 am in Karlsruhe at 107.3 pm in Mannheim carrying the am program and at 102.6 pm in Neu Ulm also carrying the am program