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Suggestion:

* Worldwide "Armed Forces Radio Network" that plays the .ogg news files as well as scheduled Mail Call and GI variety shows. Possibly include some other scheduled civilian variety shows, since it appears these were rebroadcast on AFN. (This is all in addition to random music content). Worldwide is plausible, since presumably AFN would be using high-powered shortwave stations to maximize coverage area.

* Tokyo station could be centered somewhere like the Philippines and given a radius that covers the empire. I don't think it's reasonable to make it worldwide and pick up Japanese tunes at Pearl. Content could include scheduled shows like Tokyo Rose since there is no conflict with other stations. Even in the last days of the war, places like Truk were holding out (skipped over in the "island hopping"), and most of China and Southeast Asia was still under Japanese control, so it makes sense you'd still hear some Japanese radio in the South Pacific and South China Sea.

* BBC should be centered somewhere like Java and given a radius covering most of southeast Asia and Australia. Even after Singapore falls, you have to figure you'd get the India-based stations around that area. Again, I don't like the idea of picking up the BBC at Pearl, or as far north as Japan. For content, I've put all my BBC news reports into this folder as "events," unless they were so important they would have been rebroadcast on AFN.

* I've added a Shanghai station playing Chinese opera and popular tunes. Limited coverage radius to East China Sea and South China Sea.

* Radio Saigon should be fine as is. Let the Frenchies be.

* Could add civilian stations (NBC/CBS/Mutual) in US or Hawaii, with range limited by the date line. No .ogg files, since that would conflict with AFN. But you could have non-conflicting scheduled news and variety shows as "events", as long as your harddrive could accomodate the required space. But just the random music alone will take up substantial space if you need a separate folder for each station.

* Russian radio tunes from Vladivostok?

The intention is to avoid the "folder sharing" problems while still providing some location-specific flavor as you float around the map.