In our area, we get the Armed Forces Network, which has both TV and radio broadcasting. It shows the same TV shows, but it has not normal commercials. We see the TV broadcasts in the chow hall. It does run commercials, but typically it will feature "Sergeant Melissa" or someone, in uniform, and giving a command message. Safety is a big topic, as is operational security.
They try to make the commercials more than just a talking head, and sometimes the results are unintentionally funny. I recently heard a radio commercial extolling the virtues of oral hygiene. The speaker was a male, speaking in a girlish voice, and he called himself the "tooth fairy."
The radio disk jockeys seem to be given wide latitude in what they choose to play, so we don’t just hear the top 40 all the time. We get blocks of a genre that last for a couple of hours. For example, there is a hip hop/rap block, a country block, etc. I recently heard "The Ballad of the Uneasy Rider" by Charlie Daniels, which was released around 1973. I was riding the bus once and heard a song with a refrain that I am sometime tempted to adopt as my motto; "Blow It Out Ya Ass."
The tagline for the radio show is "Armed Forces Network – The Most Heavily Armed Staff in Broadcasting."
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