Adult rock - featuring the best rock of the 70s and 80s. National Public Radio - featuring a variety of music, news and information programs. Oldies - pop oldies from the 50s, 60s and 70s. Since it is not practical to lay cable to each off-post residence, direct to home satellite broadcast is the only answer. The signal must be encoded, so it is available only to authorized viewers.
Commercial providers pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for the same programming.
Sailors, civilians and their families who do not receive the four-channel AFN service via a cable system need a decoder and satellite dish if they want to receive the four channels.