AFN radio may go silent in Naples
By Kent Harris and Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Sunday, April 26, 2009
Courtesy photo
A view of numerous broadcast towers on Mt. Camaldoli in Naples, Italy.
The military network’s radio service will go off the air in Naples beginning Monday unless there’s a "miracle" this weekend, the senior commander of American Forces Network operations in Italy said.
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"Radio broadcasts heard on 106.0 and 107.0 FM frequencies in Naples will stop unless Italian environmental officials provide written permission for use of a new transmitter site to replace the current one, which must be dismantled, Maj. Tom Bryant said Friday in an interview in his Vicenza office."
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"Bryant said the lease on a transmitter that AFN has been using for decades expired last year. Military broadcasters were allowed to continue to use the transmitter — located inside the walls of a monastery atop Mount Camaldoli — for an additional nine months. That deal ends Thursday, and the transmitter needs to be disassembled and taken away by then, a process that will take a couple of days.AFN has negotiated a deal with RAI, the Italian state-run broadcasting system, to use one of its existing towers — also on the mountain but outside the monastery — but needs to receive a series of approvals before it starts to broadcast."
