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88-607: Dees is a People's Choice Award recipient, a Grammy -nominated performing artist, and Broadcast Hall of Fame inductee. He performed the title song for the film Meatballs . He co-founded the E. W. Scripps television network Fine Living , now the Cooking Channel , and has hosted Rick Dees in the Morning at KIIS-FM and KHHT in Los Angeles . Today he continues his own syndicated daily radio show, Daily Dees and

176-464: A Procter & Gamble brand : Nice 'n Easy Fans Favorite Hair ( Faith Hill ). In 2008, the People's Choice Awards introduced a new category: Favorite Sci-Fi Show. The nominees were Stargate Atlantis , Battlestar Galactica , and Doctor Who . Stargate Atlantis was the first recipient of the award. In the 20th century, the awards were based on results from Gallup polls . Each year, Gallup took

264-459: A parody of the performance by Johnny Mathis . Fisher refused to grant permission for the use. Dees decided to do a parody even without the permission of the copyright holder, using about 29 seconds of the song in a parody album titled Put It Where the Moon Don't Shine . Fisher sued Dees for copyright infringement . The trial court found that the parody song, titled "When Sonny Sniffs Glue,"

352-648: A Grammy Award nomination for his comedy album Hurt Me Baby – Make Me Write Bad Checks and has since received the Grammy Governor's Award. His other comedy albums – I'm Not Crazy , Rick Dees Greatest Hit (The White Album) , and Put It Where The Moon Don't Shine have also enjoyed worldwide success. He is an inductee in the North Carolina Music Hall Of Fame, the Tennessee Radio Hall Of Fame, has received

440-513: A Top 40 hits format, combined with programming from AFRTS Hollywood-sourced stateside shows such as American Top 40. Programming broadcast over AFCN broadcast radio and television transmitter antennas also reached some local civilian markets across Puerto Rico, such as San Juan. Radio, and later television, to U.S. troops stationed in the Panama Canal Zone was provided initially by Armed Forces Radio (AFN) at Albrook Field and later as

528-590: A World Favorite Movie Actor ( Dustin Hoffman ). At the 23rd People's Choice Awards , Rob Reiner was named the People's Choice Awards Honoree. The 32nd People's Choice Awards (broadcast in January 2006) included categories such as Favorite On-Screen Match-Up ( Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson in Wedding Crashers ), Favorite Leading Lady ( Reese Witherspoon ), Favorite Tour ( U2 ), and an award named after

616-461: A brief scene in which a group of older people were learning to "move their feet to the disco beat". While this platinum recording earned him a People's Choice Award for Favorite New Song, and the BMI Award for record sales in one year, Dees was expressly forbidden from playing the song on the air by station management (rival stations refused to play it for fear of promoting their competition). Dees

704-784: A day Monday through Friday, with the exception of U.S. federal holidays. Stateside, AFN's broadcast operations, which include global radio and television satellite feeds, emanate from the AFN Broadcast Center/Defense Media Center at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, California . What is today the Maryland-based headquarters of the American Forces Network began on 26 May 1942 when the War Department established

792-481: A few weeks later with its first radio broadcast occurring on Saturday, 28 July 1945. (In 1949, the station moved from the city of Bremen north to the port city of Bremerhaven and became AFN Bremerhaven .) On 31 December 1945, AFN London signed off the air, and in 1948 AFN closed all its stations in France . This started the cycle of AFN stations where they would be built up during wartime, then torn down or moved after

880-481: A lesser extent, Denmark . Many Dutch households switched to the program, also because of their positive experiences with the American liberators. Also featured were live performances of classical music and jazz by Samuel Hans Adler 's Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra in support of America's cultural diplomacy initiatives in the post war period. In France, about a dozen AFN stations operated, with AFN Orléans as

968-513: A major Communication Zone Signal Corps agency, served Army depots and installations in Southwestern France with locally originated programs and network feeds from AFN Orléans via Frankfurt, Germany. It was the only other studio station affiliate of AFN Orléans because of the large American military presence and its resident Department of Defense dorm school for children of American military and civilian families assigned to Poitiers, and

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1056-402: A move to February. Since 2021, the ceremony has aired on E!'s sister broadcast network NBC . In September 2023, NBC also began to host the People's Choice Country Awards as a spin-off. The award categories have varied over the years. For example, the 16th People's Choice Awards had categories including Favorite All-Around Movie ( Batman ), and both a Favorite Movie Actor ( Tom Cruise ) and

1144-807: A severance pay (in French francs and taxable) of one month per year of service, paid by the U.S. Army to the French government, in dollars (all the French employees were managed by a specially created service: le Bureau d'Aide aux Armées Alliées or AAA). When war broke out in Korea , Army broadcasters set up in Seoul in the Banto Hotel (the old American Embassy Hotel). When the Chinese entered Seoul in December 1950,

1232-553: A small island just off the harbor at New Rochelle. At its peak in 1965, the Army Chaplain school was also located there. In 1963 the campus operated in a "university" setting with a relaxed military environment. The Army ran the Information School although training was offered to members of all military branches. Radio types took a rather severe audition written by CBS for their network announcers. Those who survived

1320-408: A survey of different categories for favorite actor, actress, movie, artist, television program or group. The scope was unlimited—the public could choose whomever or whatever it liked. The results of the annual survey were announced in the form of the People's Choice Awards. Since polls have margins of error , many years' awards have had ties in at least one category, when Gallup declared that the voting

1408-510: A technical director, a program director, several military American broadcast professionals, and some French studio operators, record librarians, secretaries and maintenance technicians. The Frankfurt network programming was received, then re-fed from AFN Orléans studios to another studio-equipped affiliate, AFN Poitiers and its repeater transmitters via modulation lines rented from the French postal service. AFN Poitiers, based at Aboville Caserne, Poitiers, France, home of an Army logistical command and

1496-507: Is archived at Rock Radio Scrapbook: AFVN: The GI's Companion. Beginning in 1971, AFVN began to close some stations in Vietnam. The last station to close was the key station in Saigon in 1973. Broadcasting continued under civilian leadership on FM only and using the name American Radio Service (ARS). The civilian engineers were provided by Pacific Architects and Engineers (PAE). ARS stayed on

1584-695: Is by the Department of Defense , whereas the British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) , for example, is independent of the Ministry of Defence and the British armed forces. AFN employs military broadcasters as well as Defense Department civilians and contractors. Service personnel hold broadcasting occupational specialties for their military branch. Since 1997, all of AFN's military personnel receive primary training at

1672-576: Is headquartered at Sembach Kaserne in Germany and consists of 15 subordinate stations in the countries of Bahrain , Belgium , Cuba , Germany, Greece , Italy , Spain , and Turkey . AFN Pacific is headquartered at Yokota Air Base in Japan and consists of nine stations in Diego Garcia , Japan, and South Korea . Stations under AFN Europe and AFN Pacific broadcast live local radio shows 12 hours

1760-565: Is located at DMA headquarters at Fort Meade. Day-to-day AFN broadcast operations are conducted at the AFN Broadcast Center/Defense Media Center in Riverside , California, from where all global radio and television satellite feeds emanate. Until the early 1970s, U.S. military television service was provided in Western Europe by Air Force Television at Ramstein Air Base , Germany. In the early 1970s, AFN assumed this responsibility for

1848-493: Is the most nominated female act of the award show with 17. Armed Forces Radio Network The American Forces Network ( AFN ) is a government television and radio broadcast service the U.S. military provides to those stationed or assigned overseas, and is headquartered at Fort Meade in Maryland . AFN comprises two subordinate overseas commands and one directorate in the continental United States. Overseas, AFN Europe

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1936-734: The Allied Expeditionary Forces . Mobile stations, complete with personnel, broadcasting equipment and a record library, were deployed to broadcast music and news to troops in the field. The mobile stations reported on front-line activities and fed the news reports back to studio locations in London . Although the network's administrative headquarters remained in London , its operational headquarters soon moved to Paris . As Allied forces continued to push German troops back into their homeland, AFN moved east as well. The liberation of most of Western Europe saw AFN stations serving

2024-930: The American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei and the ROC government . Today, ICRT is the only English-language radio service in Taiwan. Then still known as the American Forces (or Armed Forces) Radio and Television Service, military bases and facilities throughout Puerto Rico received original radio programming from Army studios at Ft. Brooke in San Juan, Air Force studios at Ramey Air Force Base, and radio and television originating from Navy studios at Roosevelt Roads, in addition to local playback of stateside entertainment radio and television shows. This broadcast service

2112-505: The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). The first transmission to U.S. troops began at 5:45 p.m. 4 July 1943, and included less than five hours of recorded shows, including a BBC News and sports broadcast. That day, T5 Syl Binkin became the first U.S. military broadcaster heard over the air. The signal was sent from London via telephone lines to five regional transmitters to reach U.S. troops in

2200-737: The Caribbean Forces Network at Fort Clayton with translators on the Atlantic side of the Canal Zone. In the early 1960s with reorganization of the command located in the Canal Zone, CFN became the Southern Command Network (SCN). SCN also broadcast to U.S. troops stationed in Honduras starting in 1987. SCN discontinued broadcasting on 1 July 1999 just before the 31 December turnover of the Canal Zone to

2288-616: The Defense Information School (DINFOS) at Fort George G. Meade in Maryland . Before 1997, DINFOS was located at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis , Indiana . In 1997, Fort Benjamin Harrison was largely closed as a function of the 1991 Base Closure and Realignment Commission . Additional/Advanced training is also available at Fort George G. Meade. In the 1960s, DINFOS was located at Fort Slocum, NY on

2376-592: The Republic of Panama when U.S. troops were removed from that country under the Torrijos-Carter Treaties . AFN Honduras , which began in 1987 as SCN Honduras, now broadcasts from Soto Cano Air Base on 106.3 FM, and serves more than 600 American service members stationed at the installation, as well as numerous civilian employees and contractors. The station's primary mission is radio, originating programming including two daily live shows following

2464-580: The U.S. national anthem : Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm Chief Master Sergeant Bob Woodruff Station Manager of the American Forces Radio and Television Service in Tehran . After 22 years of radio broadcasting and 17 years of telecasting in Tehran, AFRTS Radio 1555 and TV Channel 7 cease all operations in this country at this time. I bid you all goodbye and thank you for letting us serve you. And now

2552-632: The United Kingdom as they made preparations for the invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe . Fearing competition for civilian audiences, the BBC initially tried to impose restrictions on AFN broadcasts within Britain (transmissions were allowed only from American bases outside London and were limited to 50 watts of transmission power) and a minimum quota of British produced programming had to be carried. Nevertheless, AFN programs were widely enjoyed by

2640-616: The Weekly Top 40 became the first English-speaking radio show to air in China. The syndicated Countdown is available in several different editions including Hit Radio (for contemporary hit radio stations), Hot Adult ( hot adult contemporary radio stations), 80s Edition and 90s Edition on terrestrial radio stations around the world. After 23 years on radio station KIIS-FM, Dees left in February 2004 with no official explanation, and he

2728-408: The "Eagle" format. Personnel also occasionally produce video news packages. As of 15 January 2013, AFN Honduras is one of 18 stations under the operational control of AFN Europe. With the advent of satellite broadcasting , AFRTS has shifted its emphasis away from shortwave . Currently, the U.S. Navy provides the only shortwave single sideband shortwave AFN radio broadcasts via relay sites around

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2816-730: The AFN branch in Taiwan was Armed Forces Network Taiwan (AFNT), which had a main station in Yangmingshan American Military Housing , Taipei . After the U.S. armed forces withdrew all its troops stationed in Taiwan (including the United States Taiwan Defense Command ) as Washington, D.C. , recognizes Beijing and broke ties with Taipei, the station was reorganized under the name of International Community Radio Taipei (ICRT) by

2904-721: The AFTN station, killing 9 Air Force broadcasters. Pilot Leaphart and Navigator Bernholz ejected from their battle damaged plane when it went out of control on final approach. Both crewmen were injured but survived. The incident was the single worst catastrophe in the history of military broadcasting killing: TSGT Jack A Hawley, Wakeman, OH; SSGT James A. Howard, Denver, CO; A1C Andrew C. McCartney, Lakewood, OH; SSGT Alfred N. Potter, Forest Grove, OR; SGT John Charles Rose, Bloomfield, NJ; TSGT Frank D. Ryan Jr., Mercer Island, WA; SSGT Edward W. Strain, Myrtle Beach, SC; TSGT Roy Walker, Albuquerque, NM and A1C Thomas L. Waterman, Roanoke, VA. AFTN became

2992-792: The American Forces Thailand Network in the summer of 1969, and continued operations until the spring of 1976 when the remaining U.S. troops in Thailand were withdrawn at the request of the Thai government. More than 600 broadcasters from the Air Force, Navy and Army had served during the ten years that AFTN operated. Before the United States and the People's Republic of China established diplomatic relations in 1979,

3080-488: The American installations located throughout Southwestern France. Children living in outlying American military installations and communities commuted to Poitiers once a week for daily classes and departed for home by bus and train. AFN France was dismantled in 1967, when U.S. forces left France due to the French government's decision of President (General) Charles de Gaulle to withdraw its forces from NATO 's military command. The French employees were dismissed but were granted

3168-599: The Armed Forces Korea Network, under his birthname of Jim Dooley, spending one year in Korea before attending the University of Pennsylvania to further his education. An AFRTS radio station became operational in Tehran , Iran in 1959. This was followed by a television station in 1960, known as AFTV. It broadcast a radio service on 1555 kHz and a television service on Channel 7 in Tehran and

3256-503: The Armed Forces Radio Service (AFRS) in Los Angeles, California with U.S. Army Colonel Tom Lewis in command. The original American Forces Network began on 4 July 1943 when AFRS established what is today AFN Europe in London , England with U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Charles Gurney in command. A television service was first introduced in 1954 with a pilot station at Limestone Air Force Base , Maine . In 1954,

3344-743: The Armed Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS). AFN Bremerhaven was the first AFN television station in Europe to broadcast its programming in color. The U.S. European Edition of Stars and Stripes ( S&S ) reported in its Thursday, 21 August 1975, edition that the AFN-Europe Commander, Lt. Col. Floyd A. McBride, announced that AFN's first color TV broadcast would begin in Bremerhaven on Monday 25 August 1975. As S&S reported, because Bremerhaven's TV operation

3432-802: The Billboard Radio Personality Of The Year award for 10 consecutive years, received a People's Choice Award , and has been awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame . In television, Dees hosted his own late-night show on the ABC television network in the early 1990s, Into the Night Starring Rick Dees , which ran for one season and was canceled due to low ratings. He has guest-starred on Roseanne , Married... with Children , Diagnosis: Murder and many other hit shows. In addition, Dees hosted

3520-518: The British civilian listeners who could receive them, and once AFN operations transferred to continental Europe (shortly after D-Day ) AFN was able to broadcast with little restriction with programs available to civilian audiences across most of Europe , (including Britain), after dark. As D-Day approached, the network joined with the BBC and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to develop programs especially for

3608-693: The U.S., making it the longest continuously running countdown featuring pop music in the world. He also continues to host the syndicated Daily Dees show, and can be heard in Hawaii on Kohala Radio KNKR 96.1 FM each morning live. Dees has garnered many accolades, including the Marconi Award, induction into both the National Radio Hall of Fame , and the National Association of Broadcasters Hall Of Fame. In 1984, he received

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3696-647: The West. Also, unlike stations such as Radio Free Europe , which broadcast in Eastern European languages, AFN was not jammed by the Soviets. Especially popular was Music in the Air , which aired on the full European network at 19:00 CET. The host was AFN Frankfurt (civilian) manager John Vrotsos, who had an especially warm baritone voice. He began each program by saying (after an introductory piano phrase from

3784-501: The air until the Fall of Saigon in April 1975. It was to play Bing Crosby 's version of Irving Berlin 's " White Christmas " as a signal for Americans that the final evacuation of Saigon had begun. The Crosby version of the record could not be found so Tennessee Ernie Ford 's record from 1968 was played. In Thailand , the Department of Defense began the planning for the Armed Forces Thailand Network in 1964 with Project Lamplighter and Project Limelight. By late 1966, implementation of

3872-453: The audition became "Broadcast Specialists" with a 703 MOS and went on to an AFRTS assignment. Some of AFN's broadcasters have previous commercial broadcasting experience before enlisting in the military, but it is not a prerequisite for enlistment in the military as a broadcaster. During their training, the broadcasters are taught to use state-of-the-art audio and visual editing equipment similar to their civilian counterparts. AFN management

3960-421: The campaign spreads or where it appears. To measure True Reach, Visible Measures deploys a robust and patented set of technologies with the goal of capturing the universe of Internet video viewership data in near real-time." These are some of the past categories for the People's Choice Awards: The first ceremony in 1975 had 14 categories. In 2016, 74 categories were established. As of 2018, these are

4048-417: The ceremony was broadcast by CBS , and Procter & Gamble's brands held exclusive national advertising time across the entire telecast. In April 2017, the E! network announced that they had acquired the People's Choice Awards. The ceremony was initially shifted from a January scheduling to November to reduce its proximity to the busier months of awards season , but this was reverted for 2024 with

4136-453: The country. As the U.S. military presence in South Vietnam increased, AFRTS opened radio and later television stations there. AFRTS stations in Vietnam were initially known by the name "AFRS" (Armed Forces Radio Saigon), but as the number of stations quickly expanded throughout South Vietnam became known as "AFVN" (American Forces Vietnam Network) and had several stations, including Qui Nhơn , Nha Trang , Pleiku , Da Nang and Huế ,

4224-525: The crew moved to a mobile unit that was just completed and retreated to Daegu . Due to the large number of American troops in Korea, a number of stations were started. Mobile units followed combat units to provide news and entertainment on the radio. By the time the 1953 armistice was signed, these mobile units became buildings with transmitters, and a network, American Forces Korea Network, was born. Canadian and American television personality Jim Perry began his broadcasting career fresh out of high school with

4312-409: The current categories: On March 9, 2023, NBC announced the People's Choice Country Awards , a spin-off focusing on country music . The inaugural ceremony was held on September 28, 2023, at the Grand Ole Opry House in Nashville, Tennessee , and was hosted by Little Big Town . As of 2024, Zach Bryan is the most nominated act of the ceremony with 24 nominations, while Beyoncé

4400-420: The first show in 1975. The first awards recognized The Sting as Favorite Picture of 1974, Barbra Streisand as the year's Favorite Film Actress, and John Wayne as its Favorite Film Actor. So far, Ellen DeGeneres and Taylor Swift are the most awarded people, with a total of 20 awards each. In 1982, Stivers sold the People's Choice Awards to Procter & Gamble Productions (P&G); under P&G,

4488-483: The first time ever, the People's Choice Awards has incorporated Internet video viewing data into the initial nominee selection process, depending on Visible Measures True Reach metrics to objectively measure online video popularity. [...] Visible Measures worked with the People's Choice Awards to determine each potential nominees' popularity on a True Reach basis, a unique measure of the total audience that has been exposed to an online video campaign – regardless of how widely

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4576-401: The forces liberating Biarritz , Cannes , Le Havre , Marseille , Nice , Paris and Reims . During the period between 1943 and 1949 the AFN also broadcast programs developed through a collaboration of the Department of State 's Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs and the CBS network while supporting America's cultural diplomacy initiatives. Included among the programs

4664-442: The height of American involvement in the war, Armed Forces Vietnam Network served more than 500,000 fighting men and women at one time. AFVN developed a program along the lines of " GI Jive " from World War II. A number of local disc jockeys helped make hourlong music programs for broadcast. Perhaps the best-known program became the morning "Dawn Buster" program, (the brainchild of Chief Petty Officer Bryant Arbuckle in 1962) thanks to

4752-420: The history of AFN is available online. The first station to be under the control of the U.S. Armed Forces was KGEI in San Francisco, whose origins come from a GE exhibit, which in February 1939 started shortwave broadcasts aimed at the Philippines, which at the time were under American control. The station was used as a counterpoint to Radio Tokyo and ultimately became a model for the army network following

4840-424: The invasion of Pearl Harbor in late 1941. The first radio station began in Delta Junction, Alaska , on what was then known as Fort Greely . It was called KODK and was operated by on base personnel. In the years just before World War II , there were several radio stations based in American military bases , but none were officially recognized until 1942. The success of these individual radio stations helped pave

4928-427: The judgment to a former business partner. People%27s Choice Awards The People's Choice Awards is an American awards show, recognizing people in entertainment, voted online by the fans and general public . The show has been held annually since 1975, with the winners originally determined using Gallup Polls until a switch to online voting in 2005. The awards were created by Bob Stivers, who produced

5016-440: The latter being overrun by the People's Army of Vietnam during the Battle of Hue in January/February 1968 and replaced by a station in Quảng Trị . AFVN's headquarters station was located in Saigon . In Vietnam, AFVN had a number of war-related casualties. After a fierce fire fight that killed two soldiers and a civilian contractor, the remaining AFVN station staff at Huế was captured and spent five years as prisoners of war. At

5104-474: The morning radio show in Los Angeles at KHJ (AM) . Dees helped their ratings, but AM music radio was rapidly losing ground to FM. When KHJ switched to country music, Dees left KHJ, taking a morning position at KIIS-FM in July 1981. In a short time, he turned KIIS-FM into the #1 revenue-generating radio station in America, with an asset value approaching half a billion dollars. He began his Weekly Top 40 countdown program, still currently in syndication , on

5192-405: The national anthem of the United States of America." The following day, AFRTS radio and television services in Iran were replaced by those operated by the state broadcaster National Iranian Radio and Television (NIRT), which were similar in content, appealing to the 60 000 U.S. Army and civilian personnel then stationed in Iran, as well as the wider population of foreign nationals resident in

5280-450: The network began by the U.S. Air Force with stations on the air at Korat , U-Tapao , Ubon , Udorn , Takhli and Nahkon Phanom . In addition, there were more than 20 satellite stations that rebroadcast one or more of the primary stations, and that included one or more clandestine locations in Laos . In April 1970, a battle-damaged RF-4C Phantom II #65-0863 returning to Udorn from a reconnaissance mission in northwest Laos, crashed into

5368-488: The option to write in their favorites. Knowledge Networks recruits its panel by using a RDD phone recruitment method and provides a web TV and Internet access to households without Internet access enabling them to infer back to the entire population. The nominees for the 2010 People's Choice Awards were determined by the media research company Visible Measures, which specializes in measuring Internet video audience behavior. The announcement of this partnership stated, "For

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5456-420: The popularity of the sign-on slogan "Gooooood Morning, Vietnam" (which was initiated by Adrian Cronauer and later became the basis for the film Good Morning, Vietnam starring Robin Williams ). Among the notable people who were AFVN disc jockeys were Don L. "Scotty" Brink, Lee Hansen , Les Coleman and Pat Sajak , Chris Noel , John Allgood, Joe Huser, and Dennis Woytek. Army Spec. 5 Robert Morecook announced

5544-412: The program's theme music) "Listen ... [pause for more piano] ... there's music in the air". The theme was "Music Everywhere" in an arrangement by Victor Young . Later in the 1950s, Leroy Anderson 's Belle of the ball was used. The program was popular throughout Northern Europe , especially in the liberated countries such as the Netherlands , Belgium , France (the northern part), Luxembourg and, to

5632-434: The radio service operated for around 18 hours a day. In deference to Iranian sensitivities, AFRTS avoided carrying programming that might be construed as offensive on political or religious grounds, instead carrying cowboy or detective movies. Following the nationalization of the privately owned Television Iran network in 1969, AFTV was the only television service not in the Iranian government's hands. However, in 1976, it

5720-428: The sentence "Good morning! This is AFN Munich, the voice of the 7th Army!". General George S. Patton , commander of the 3rd Army, was furious with the opening as his army had taken control over Munich the previous night, and demanded that the responsible person be court-martialed . Soon after AFN Munich signed on the air in the southern part of occupied Germany , in northern Germany , AFN Bremen begin broadcasting

5808-452: The show's production team and a panel of pop culture fans. The nominees for the 32nd People's Choice Awards were determined by the web research company Knowledge Networks, which took a nationally representative sample of men and women ages 18 to 54, with and without Internet access, to come up with the nominees. After being presented with a list of candidates determined by national ratings averages, box office grosses and album sales, they had

5896-580: The song became popular, and the vocals for the duck were done by Michael Chesney of Memphis for the concert tour. Chesney had done some comedic voices for Dees prior to Disco Duck. The tour went from Disney World to New York City, billed as Rick Dees and The Cast of Idiots . After a 45-day non-compete clause in his contract was satisfied, Dees was hired by RKO Radio to do the morning show at WHBQ AM 560 in Memphis. The success of Dees at their Memphis radio station, combined with his TV appearances and hit music, motivated station owner RKO General to offer Rick

5984-503: The southeastern United States, including WCAR (now known as WXYC ) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina ; WSGN in Birmingham, Alabama ; and WKIX in Raleigh, North Carolina . His introduction to the international entertainment arena began while working at WMPS AM 680 ("The Great 68") in Memphis, Tennessee , during the disco craze of the mid-to-late-1970s. He wrote and recorded " Disco Duck " in 1976; it sold more than six million copies. The song can be heard in Saturday Night Fever in

6072-406: The station before the flip, redirecting listeners of his show to RICK.COM. On April 20, 2011, Dees returned for the second time, this time at KIIS's sister station KHHT, following the station's formatting shift to a Gold-based Rhythmic AC. His show at KHHT lasted for a year. Dees continues distribution of his Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown globally to terrestrial radio stations and streaming in

6160-439: The station's transmission tower was in the glide path to the airfield and was not jammed by the Soviets . During the 1950s and 1960s, AFN had large civilian audiences in Europe , as European radio stations rarely played American music. In Communist countries, all radio stations were state-operated, and never played American music. Despite the language barrier, the people in those countries saw AFN as an alternative connection to

6248-528: The studio control station. The network broadcast music, shows, and news relayed from AFN Frankfurt, locally produced shows, and other features aimed at the American soldiers and their families stationed in France. In particular, a whole team of reporters and technicians was sent to cover the 24-hour auto race at Le Mans , at a time when Ford was doing its best to beat the Ferraris, and finally succeeded. AFN France broadcast with 50 watt FM transmitters made by French manufacturer TRT, type OZ 305. The network employed

6336-561: The surrounding area from its studios in the city. Its listeners (and viewers) were American military personnel stationed in Iran as part of ARMISH (the US Army mission) and Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) programs. AFTV was also popular with Iranian viewers, particularly children. As the TV service only had a power of 1000 watts, it was only on air for a few hours each day, whereas

6424-624: The syndicated Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown. Dees was born Rigdon Osmond Dees III in Jacksonville, Florida , on March 14, 1950. He was raised in Greensboro, North Carolina . Dees graduated from Greensboro's Grimsley High School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a bachelor's degree in motion pictures, TV, and radio. Dees began his radio career at a Greensboro radio station called WGBG while still in high school. He worked for various radio stations throughout

6512-471: The syndicated series Solid Gold from Paramount Television, and his voice has been a part of numerous animated features, including The Flintstones , where he starred as Rock Dees, and Jetsons: The Movie , where he voiced Rocket Rick. In feature films, Dees starred in La Bamba , portraying the iconic Ted Quillin , the Los Angeles disc jockey who helped launch Ritchie Valens's career. His voice

6600-685: The television mission of AFRS was officially recognized and AFRS (Armed Forces Radio Service) became AFRTS (Armed Forces Radio and Television Service). All the Armed Forces broadcasting affiliates worldwide merged under the AFN banner on 1 January 1998. On 21 November 2000, the American Forces Information Service directed a change of the AFRTS organizational title from Armed Forces Radio and Television Service to American Forces Radio and Television Service. A timeline of

6688-699: The upcoming end of the Vietnam War on AFVN-TV news in February, 1973, which followed 30 days later. Army Spec 4 Tom Fowlston was first to announce the war end on radio news. Harry Simons hosted the GO Show at both AFVN Saigon and Danang in 1968 and 1969. Simons along with broadcaster Mike Bates created and produced a 10-hour radio documentary ( AFVN: The GI's Companion ) as a tribute to AFVN and to honor all Vietnam Veterans. It aired and streamed on Veterans Day 2015 on WEBY Radio in Pensacola, Florida. The documentary

6776-609: The war was over. Of the 300 stations in operation worldwide in 1945, only 60 remained in 1949. A large number of AFN stations continued broadcasting from American bases in Europe (particularly Germany ) after World War II . (Eight remain on the air today. See article on German Misplaced Pages .) During the Berlin Blockade of 1948–1949, planes headed for Tempelhof in West Berlin tuned their radios to AFN- Berlin because

6864-619: The way for the AFN. As such, there was no single station that could be called the "first" to sign on as an AFN station. About two months before the formal establishment of AFN, however, a station called "PCAN" began regular broadcast information service in the Panama Canal Zone , primarily for troops on jungle bivouac . The station, located at Fort Clayton , was later to become part of AFRS, first simply as "Armed Forces Network" located at Albrook Field . The original AFN - present day AFN Europe - began broadcasting from London during World War II , using equipment and studio facilities borrowed from

6952-532: The weekend of October 8–9, 1983 on 18 stations; the show was created after Dees's station KIIS dropped American Top 40 in a dispute over the playing of network commercials. The Weekly Top 40 has been heard each weekend in over 200 countries worldwide and the Armed Forces Radio Network . It is distributed domestically by Compass Media Networks and internationally by Dees Entertainment International (through Radio Express ). In December 2008,

7040-710: The world to provide service to ships, including Diego Garcia , Guam , Naval Air Station Sigonella in Italy, Puerto Rico , Hawaii and others. The American Forces Network (AFN) is the operational arm of the American Forces Radio and Television Service (AFRTS), an office of the Defense Media Activity (DMA). AFN falls under the operational control of the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (OASD-PA). Editorial control

7128-410: Was Viva America which showcased leading musical talents from both North and South America and was transmitted for the benefit of armed forces throughout Europe and to South America over CBS's short wave network "La Cadena de Las Americas". On 10 July 1945, the first AFN station in occupied Germany started broadcasting: AFN Munich . Its first broadcast was however incorrect as it began with

7216-499: Was clearly intended to "poke fun" at the style of singing for which Johnny Mathis was well known, and thus was not infringing. The decision was upheld on appeal, in Fisher v. Dees 794 F.2d 432 (9th Cir. 1986). In an unrelated 1991 case, Dees was successfully sued for $ 10 million in damages. The court found Dees and his business manager acted with "malice and oppression" in diverting profits from Dees's Top 40 countdown program and gave

7304-530: Was decided by the Iranian government that AFRTS should close down its radio and TV services, which it did on 25 October of that year, the day before the Shah 's 57th birthday. Radio 1555 closed with presenter Air Force Staff Sergeant Barry Cantor playing Roger Whittaker 's " Durham Town (The Leavin') ". This was followed by a closing announcement by Chief Master Sergeant and Station Manager Bob Woodruff, ending with

7392-464: Was fired from WMPS when he mentioned that his song, "Disco Duck", was almost number 1, and his own radio station would not let him play it. The station manager said it was a conflict of interest . Dees did not perform the actual duck vocals on the song since he could not "talk like a duck". The duck vocals were recorded at Shoestring Productions in Memphis, Tennessee by Ken Pruitt, who moved away before

7480-516: Was heard as the radio DJ during the opening credits of the film Valley Girl , released in 1983. In 2020, Dees provided the voice of Peter Griffin 's impression of him in the Family Guy episode "La Famiglia Guy". In 1984, Dees (and his record company) made a request of Marvin Fisher, the owner of the copyright in the music of the song "When Sunny Gets Blue", for permission to use the song in

7568-836: Was known as AFCN, the American Forces Caribbean Network in the 1970s (later as the Armed Forces Caribbean Network) served military bases and facilities throughout Puerto Rico from transmitters in San Juan (Fort Brooke, Fort Buchanan), Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, and Ramey Air Force Base. Each of these bases also had their own television transmitters or cable systems that played back stateside TV programming delivered to each location in weekly "packages" of 16mm film, kinescope recordings, video tape, and satellite news programming feeds. AFCN Roosevelt Roads also produced live radio programming featuring Navy Journalist/Broadcaster disc jockeys in

7656-462: Was replaced by Ryan Seacrest . Dees returned to Los Angeles radio in August 2006 on KMVN , Movin 93.9, hosting the morning show along with Patti "Long Legs" Lopez and Mark Wong. On April 15, 2009, Movin 93.9 dismissed its radio personalities and changed the format to Spanish contemporary music after a leasing of the station to Mexico City business Grupo Radio Centro. Dees was one of the last voices on

7744-584: Was so close that a single winner could not be chosen. For instance, in 2003, both Spider-Man and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring were recognized as Favorite Motion Picture. The winners of the 31st People's Choice Awards (on January 9, 2005) were decided by online voting rather than Gallup polls. The nominees submitted for Internet voting were selected using an unpublished process involving editors at Entertainment Weekly ,

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