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unusual facts about Far East Network


The Golden Cups

The new band initially called themselves Group & I, and were influenced by the rock and roll music broadcast on the Far East Network from the local US Army base at Honmoku, and more generally by contacts made with Americans and others in the port city of Yokohama.


DWBY-TV

It was the frequency formerly occupied by the Far East Network (now American Forces Network) of the United States Armed Forces until the shutdown of FEN UHF-17 due to the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991.


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