AFN RADIO serves more than a million American service men and women, Department of Defense civilians and their families stationed at bases and American Embassies ... See more and Consulates in more than 177 countries and 200 U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard and the U.S. Navy's Military Sealift Command ships at sea. Since World War II, AFN has enjoyed the generous support from all major broadcast networks, syndicates, public radio services, and individual stations and program producers throughout the U.S. AFN RADIO programming originates at the American Forces Network Defense Media Center in California. There are 10 different, full-time AFN RADIO networks including a primary information news/talk/information network. These national radio services are distributed by satellite to an overseas affiliate network of military broadcast stations, base cable TV systems, and AFN Direct-to-Home (DTH) satellite dish users. Additional shortwave AFN RADIO transmissions reach U.S. Navy ships in areas not served by satellite with the primary information news/talk/information AFN RADIO network.