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By the late 1980s, programming was delivered via satellite, local news was taken off the stations in favor of a various national news from a Christian news source, and all but a few local announcements are produced at their Oakland, California facilities.<ref name="Family Stations fact sheet">{{citation|title=Family Stations fact sheet|url=http://www.hoovers.com/free|publisher=Hoovers, a D&B Co.|accessdate=2008-05-22}}</ref>
By the late 1980s, programming was delivered via satellite, local news was taken off the stations in favor of a various national news from a Christian news source, and all but a few local announcements are produced at their Oakland, California facilities.<ref name="Family Stations fact sheet">{{citation|title=Family Stations fact sheet|url=http://www.hoovers.com/free|publisher=Hoovers, a D&B Co.|accessdate=2008-05-22}}</ref>


Beginning in the late 1990s, Family Radio began gradually dropping outside ministries because of doctrinal changes in the ministry. As board members left the ministry, they were not being replaced. Harold Camping's views as they were changing became the focus of the ministry. Up until the late 1980s, Family Radio endorsed local church attendance but once Camping stated the church age was over, they now claim that Christians should NOT be members or attend church services of any type. Today Family Radio produces 95 % of their programming and runs very few outside ministries. Most teaching programs are hosted by Harold Camping himself.
Beginning in the late 1990s, Family Radio began gradually dropping outside ministries because of doctrinal changes in the ministry. As board members left the ministry, they were not being replaced. Harold Camping's views as they were changing became the focus of the ministry. Up until the late 1980s, Family Radio endorsed local church attendance but once Camping stated the church age was over, they now claim that Christians should NOT be members or attend church services of any type. Today Family Radio produces 95 % of their programming and runs very few outside ministries. Most teaching programs were hosted by Harold Camping himself up until June of 2011; after Camping suffered a stroke, his programs were gradually phased out.


Music broadcast by Family Radio in the 1960s and 1970s was typical of religious stations, commercial and non-commercial. Some commercial stations played [[Contemporary Christian Music]] (CCM) for a few hours a week, but in the 1980s, as commercial and some non-commercial Christian stations evolved to Contemporary formats, Family Radio remained with a mainly traditional music format composed of [[choir]] [[hymns]], various Gospel singing groups such as the [[Bill Gaither Trio]], Christian college choirs, instrumental orchestral hymn renditions from conductors such as [[Paul Mickelson]] and [[Ralph Carmichael]], vocalists such as [[George Beverly Shea]], [[Frank Boggs]], [[Doug Oldham]], [[Mahalia Jackson]], [[John McGill]], [[Dave Boyer]], and others, and softer [[urban contemporary gospel]] songs. From the 1970s onward, Family Radio included a few selected tracks from some lighter contemporary Christian artists such as [[Maranatha]], [[Pam Mark Hall]], [[Cynthia Clawson]], the [[New Creation Singers]], [[Ken Medema]], [[Michael Card]], [[Steve Green]] and others, but largely abandoned this direction by the early 2000s, although this genre is still occasionally heard.
Music broadcast by Family Radio in the 1960s and 1970s was typical of religious stations, commercial and non-commercial. Some commercial stations played [[Contemporary Christian Music]] (CCM) for a few hours a week, but in the 1980s, as commercial and some non-commercial Christian stations evolved to Contemporary formats, Family Radio remained with a mainly traditional music format composed of [[choir]] [[hymns]], various Gospel singing groups such as the [[Bill Gaither Trio]], Christian college choirs, instrumental orchestral hymn renditions from conductors such as [[Paul Mickelson]] and [[Ralph Carmichael]], vocalists such as [[George Beverly Shea]], [[Frank Boggs]], [[Doug Oldham]], [[Mahalia Jackson]], [[John McGill]], [[Dave Boyer]], and others, and softer [[urban contemporary gospel]] songs. From the 1970s onward, Family Radio included a few selected tracks from some lighter contemporary Christian artists such as [[Maranatha]], [[Pam Mark Hall]], [[Cynthia Clawson]], the [[New Creation Singers]], [[Ken Medema]], [[Michael Card]], [[Steve Green]] and others, but largely abandoned this direction by the early 2000s, although this genre is still occasionally heard.

Revision as of 16:19, 27 October 2011

Not to be confused with Family Radio Service, American Family Radio, or Family Life Radio.
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Family Radio logo

Family Radio, also known by its licensee name Family Stations Inc., is a Christian radio network based in Oakland, California, USA, founded by Lloyd Lindquist, Richard H. Palmquist and Harold Camping.[1] The network consists mainly of FM radio stations with non-commercial licenses (and a few commercial licenses used as non-commercial) and relays, with some AM stations and two television stations, plus WYFR shortwave in Okeechobee, Florida. The network produces programming in more than 40 languages.[2][3]

Family Radio is best known for the predictions made on the air by Harold Camping. He has predicted that that the Rapture would occur on four different occasions; first he said it would happen in September of 1994, then he revised the date to March of 1995. More recently on May 21, 2011, his third prediction attracted worldwide media interest. Following the failure of that prediction, the Family Radio website was updated to a new design that contains yet another revised date of October 21, 2011 for the end of the world, including:

"We always look at the word 'earthquake' to mean the earth, or ground, is quaking or shaking violently. However, in the Bible the word 'earth' can include people as well as ground.

"In Genesis 2:7 we read:

'And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground…' Thus the word 'earthquake' can also be understood to teach that mankind shakes from the cold. Therefore we have learned from our experience of last May 21 what actually happened. All of mankind was shaken with fear. Indeed the earth (or mankind) did quake in a way it had never before been shaken."[4]

To see earlier versions of the Family Radio site one may go to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.[5] The original Judgment Day page is also still accessible here.

Programming

Family Radio's music programming consists mainly of early American hymns and avoids other genres generally, including Contemporary Christian Music and southern gospel.

One of Family Radio's oldest broadcasts was a call-in program called "Open Forum" in which Harold Camping, the station's president, responded to callers' questions and comments as they relate to the Bible and he used the platform to promote his various end-time predictions. The program was finally cancelled not long after Camping's third failed "rapture-less" prediction and a stroke which he suffered in June 2011. Other programs include "Family Bible Reading Fellowship", "Family Bible Study", "Sunday Preaching", "Beyond Intelligent Design", "Christian Home", and "Family Radio World Wide" are examples of other programming offered.[6]

Support

Family Radio relies solely on listener-supported funding and donations, and is unaffiliated with any other religious denomination.[7] Outside programming broadcast over the Family Radio network is limited as Camping considers the organized church "apostate", and therefore devoid of God's Spirit and under Satan's control.

Family Radio had net assets of approximately $122 million in 2007[8] and received $18.3 million in donations in 2009.[9]

Family Radio spent over US$100 million on the information campaign for Camping's 2011 end times prediction, financed by sales and swap of broadcast outlets.[10]

Politics

Family Radio does not discuss politics directly, campaign for political candidates, or endorse candidates or issues. Family Radio attempts to distance itself from political and social issues. Nevertheless, Family Radio has presented programs that may have political and social ramifications, such as those that advocate creationism.[11]

History

Family Radio began obtaining FM broadcasting licenses on commercial frequencies early in FM's history,[when?] and by 2006, was ranked 19th among top broadcast companies in number of radio stations owned.[12] Currently, Family Radio's affiliates in New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, and San Francisco are on prime commercial frequencies and the licenses of these stations alone may be worth hundreds of millions of dollars if sold today.[original research?]

In 1958, a Family Radio founder, Harold Camping, joined with other individuals of Christian Reformed, Bible Baptist, and Conservative Christian Presbyterian to purchase an FM radio station in San Francisco, California, KEAR, then at 97.3 MHz, to broadcast traditional Christian Gospel to the conservative Protestant community and minister to the general public. With the primary purpose of broadcasting doctrines of Christianity reflective of the teachings of the Holy Bible, Family Radio remained independent, never merging with any particular church organization or church denominations [13]

Through the 1960s, as a ministry, both non-profit organization and non-commercial, Family Radio acquired 6 additional FM stations and 7 other AM stations under guidelines established by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) .[14] The flagship station for the network of both full-power and low-power translator stations is KEAR in San Francisco (now at 610 kHz, since 2005 at 106.9 MHz).Due to FCC rules regarding translator stations, the legal primary station for the translators was changed to KEAR-FM in Sacramento, after the former primary FM station in San Francisco was sold to CBS Radio.[15]

With the sale of KEAR-FM to CBS Radio in 2005, broadcasts from San Francisco moved to an AM radio frequency.[16] Family Radio continues to own other large market FM commercial band stations, including WFME 94.7 MHz Newark, NJ in the New York City radio market.

Many program productions broadcast throughout the Family Radio station network were produced in the Oakland, California facilities. The production process involved pre-recording two weeks of broadcast programming on reel-to-reel tapes distributed to each local Family Radio station for broadcast on the specified date. Free broadcast time was provided by Family Radio to national fundamentalist and evangelical ministries—outside ministries' programs were sent in cassette and reel-to-reel tape formats to respective Family Radio stations for local broadcast. Popular network announcers and the programs they hosted included Jon Arthur (The Quiet Hours, Big Jon & Sparky, Radio Reading Circle); Omar Andeel (The Morning Clock); Harold Hall (The Christian Home); Ken Boone (Music to Live By); Bob Swenson (Transition); and Jerry Edinger (Nightwatch). Each local Family Radio station had local board operators providing world, national, and local news and weather at various intervals throughout the day; regular public service announcements and daily public affairs programming; and local traffic reports via phone call-in during morning and afternoon weekdays. Outside ministry programs included "Focus on the Family", "Freedom Under Fire", "Unshackled", "Back to the Bible", "Family News in Focus", "Beyond Intelligent Design", and "Walk with the King" with Dr. Robert A. Cook. This last program still airs today, although now often edited in places deemed incompatible with Camping's odd end-times and "apostate church" doctrinal stands.

By the late 1980s, programming was delivered via satellite, local news was taken off the stations in favor of a various national news from a Christian news source, and all but a few local announcements are produced at their Oakland, California facilities.[3]

Beginning in the late 1990s, Family Radio began gradually dropping outside ministries because of doctrinal changes in the ministry. As board members left the ministry, they were not being replaced. Harold Camping's views as they were changing became the focus of the ministry. Up until the late 1980s, Family Radio endorsed local church attendance but once Camping stated the church age was over, they now claim that Christians should NOT be members or attend church services of any type. Today Family Radio produces 95 % of their programming and runs very few outside ministries. Most teaching programs were hosted by Harold Camping himself up until June of 2011; after Camping suffered a stroke, his programs were gradually phased out.

Music broadcast by Family Radio in the 1960s and 1970s was typical of religious stations, commercial and non-commercial. Some commercial stations played Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) for a few hours a week, but in the 1980s, as commercial and some non-commercial Christian stations evolved to Contemporary formats, Family Radio remained with a mainly traditional music format composed of choir hymns, various Gospel singing groups such as the Bill Gaither Trio, Christian college choirs, instrumental orchestral hymn renditions from conductors such as Paul Mickelson and Ralph Carmichael, vocalists such as George Beverly Shea, Frank Boggs, Doug Oldham, Mahalia Jackson, John McGill, Dave Boyer, and others, and softer urban contemporary gospel songs. From the 1970s onward, Family Radio included a few selected tracks from some lighter contemporary Christian artists such as Maranatha, Pam Mark Hall, Cynthia Clawson, the New Creation Singers, Ken Medema, Michael Card, Steve Green and others, but largely abandoned this direction by the early 2000s, although this genre is still occasionally heard.

In the mid to late 1970s there began a policy of not announcing the names of artists behind the music aired. Listeners had to write in for information about music heard that they were interested in.

Family Radio's text publications, continue to be based on the text of the authorized King James Bible.[17][18] Prerecorded Bible readings broadcast over satellite, shortwave, radio frequencies and the internet are generally based on the Modern King James Bible.[19]

Leading up to May 2011, Family Radio spent millions of dollars to advertise the incorrect 2011 end times prediction.[20]

Two days after the supposed rapture didn't happen, A Bible Answer (a Bible teaching ministry) has offered to buy 66 full-powered radio stations from Family Radio founder Harold Camping in an effort to get him to resign from preaching such false doctrine. The offer comes with a catch though - they will not take possession of the stations until October 22, the day after Camping's new set-date for the end of the world. A Bible Answer's website calls for Camping to resign from the Family Radio board, citing "the self-proclaimed expert on the Bible has brought reproach upon Christ, the Bible, and the church," and adds "After taking the money of his supporters, let Harold give up all he has, to show he believes what he is preaching. He does not or else he would sell. It is time to get new leadership at Family Radio."[21][22]

On August 3, 2011, the radio industry website Radio-Info.com reported that Family Radio was putting two of its stations up for sale: WKDN in Philadephia and WFSI in Annapolis, Maryland (covering the Washington, DC and Baltimore areas), with CBS Radio as a potential buyer. The article said that the ministry may be selling the stations to pay off "operating deficits accumulated over the last several years".[23]

Teachings and beliefs

Family Radio sign in Denver predicting the end of the world on 21 May 2011
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Website show 00 days until the end.

Central to Family Radio's and Camping's teaching is the belief that the Bible is the Word of God and completely true. However, he emphasizes, this does not mean that each sentence in the Bible is to be understood only literally. Rather, the meaning of individual Biblical passages needs to be interpreted in the light of two factors. The first is the context of the Bible as a whole. The second is its spiritual meaning: in Camping's words, "the Bible is an earthly story with a Heavenly meaning." In Camping's latest publication, "We are Almost There!",[24] he stated that certain Biblical passages pointed unquestionably to May 21, 2011 as the date of "Rapture", and pointed to October 21, 2011 as the end of the world. This event did not occur on 21 May or 21 October. No acknowledgement of false teaching has yet been offered concerning the 21 October event.[25] The organization's website became inaccessible early that day, and wasn't reachable until the early morning of May 22.

As a result of spending millions of dollars to promote his "end of the world" theory, many people sold everything they owned, and donated it to Family Radio, sometimes even hundreds of thousands of dollars. One of the documented suicides is of a woman who even went so far as to slit her children's throats before she killed herself, in order to "save them from having to live through the tribulation". [26]

The California Atty. General's office has been asked by the Freedom from Religion Foundation to investigate Camping and Family Stations, Inc. for "Fraud and Deceit". [27]

Since leaving the Reformed Church in 1988, Camping has taught doctrines that largely conflict with doctrines of the Reformed Church and traditional Christian teaching. The principles of Biblical hermeneutics upon which Camping frames his present teachings are:

  1. The Bible alone is the Word of God.
  2. Every Biblical passage must be interpreted in the light of the Bible as a whole.
  3. The Bible normally conveys multiple levels of meaning or significance.[28]
  4. Numerology cannot be applied to numbers in the Bible when following the Biblical rules—some individuals have attempted to apply the concept to Camping's research.
  5. That salvation is unmerited and cannot be achieved by good works, prayer, belief or acceptance. It is a pure act of God's grace and that those to be saved were chosen "before the foundation of the world". He has added conditions to salvation and teaching relative free will of humanity. However, he has admitted that some, though very few, could be saved, while still in the worldly churches, just as there would be those saved inside the nation of Israel, and that leaving the churches is something a believer should do, just as a believer should not lie or cheat. He also gives credit to God for what has been called "common grace", where the unsaved, the yet to be saved and the saved are blessed to do good works, but this is not considered the gift of salvation itself.


Examples of how Camping's teachings vary from conventional Christian doctrines are:

  • Departing from doctrines stating no one can know the time of Christ's second coming, he teaches that the exact times of the Rapture and the End of the World are to be revealed sometime towards the end of time: (Daniel 12:9-13) prophecy.
  • Camping teaches that the "Church age" is over, that Satan now rules in all churches, and that no person remaining in a church at the time of the Rapture can be saved. He attempts to distinguish his ministry from a "church", saying that Family Radio does not have a "membership" or hold "authority".
  • Camping now teaches that "hell" is synonymous with "death" and the "grave", and that there is no everlasting torment, common in the teachings of the Jehovah's Witnesses.
  • Camping now teaches that The Cross was just a demonstration of what had already happened before the foundation of the world.
  1. According to Camping, the number five equals "atonement", the number ten equals "completeness", and the number seventeen equals "heaven".
  2. Christ is said to have hung on the cross on April 1, 33 AD. The time between April 1, 33 AD and April 1, 2011 is 1,978 years.
  3. If 1,978 is multiplied by 365.2422 days (the number of days in a solar year, not to be confused with the lunar year), the result is 722,449. (This, however, is a rounded number; taken precisely, the figure is 722,449.0716)
  4. The time between April 1 and May 21 is 51 days.
  5. 51 added to 722,449 is 722,500.
  6. (5 x 10 x 17)2 or (atonement x completeness x heaven)2 also equals 722,500.

Stations

Satellite

Eutelsat Hotbird 6 - 13 degrees east, Transponder # 89, Vertical LNB polarization; Satellite frequency: 12.597 GHz

  • Family Radio Europe (English): channel 8222
  • Family Radio International 1: channel 8233
  • Family Radio International 2: channel 8234

Astra 2B - 28.2° east, Transponder # 36, Vertical LNB polarization, Satellite frequency: 12.4024 GHz

  • Family Radio Europe (English) : SID 9558

Full-powered stations

City Call sign Frequency
Americus, Georgia WFRP 0088.7 FM
Annapolis, Maryland WFSI 0107.9 FM
Bakersfield, California KFRB 0091.3 FM
Baltimore, Maryland WBGR 0860 AM
Baltimore, Maryland WBMD 0750 AM
Beaumont, Texas KTXB 0089.7 FM
Bedford, Pennsylvania WUFR 0091.1 FM
Birmingham, Alabama WBFR 0089.5 FM
Bismarck, North Dakota KBFR 0091.7 FM
Buffalo, New York WFBF 0089.9 FM
Butte, Montana KFRD 0088.3 FM
Camden, New Jersey WKDN 0106.9 FM
Charleston, South Carolina WFCH 0088.5 FM
Chico, California KHAP 0089.1 FM
Columbus, Georgia WFRC 0090.5 FM
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio WCUE 1150 AM
Des Moines, Iowa KDFR 0091.3 FM
El Cajon, California KECR 0910 AM
Emporia, Kansas KPOR 0090.7 FM
Erie, Pennsylvania WEFR 0088.1 FM
Florida City, Florida WMFL 0088.5 FM
Fresno, California KFNO 0090.3 FM
Jacksonville, Florida WJFR 0088.7 FM
Johnstown, Pennsylvania WFRJ 0088.9 FM
Joliet, Illinois WJCH 0091.9 FM
Kingston, New York WFRH 0091.7 FM
Kirkland, Washington KARR 1460 AM
Le Grand, California KEFR 0089.9 FM
Long Beach, California KFRN 1280 AM
Longview, Washington KJVH 0089.5 FM
Milwaukee, Wisconsin WMWK 0088.1 FM
Newark, New Jersey WFME 0094.7 FM
Okeechobee, Florida WYFR shortwave
Olivebridge, New York WFSO 0088.3 FM
Phoenix, Arizona KPHF 0088.3 FM
Pine Grove, Oregon KPFR 0089.5 FM
Rapid City, South Dakota KQFR 0089.9 FM
Rocklin, California KEBR 1210 AM
Saint PetersburgSt. Petersburg, Florida WFTI 0091.7 FM
Sacramento, California KEAR-FM 0088.1 FM
Salt Lake City, Utah KUFR 0091.7 FM
San Francisco, California KEAR 0610 AM
Schoolcraft, Michigan WOFR 0089.5 FM
Shenandoah, Iowa KYFR 0920 AM
Smithtown, New York WFRS 0088.9 FM
Soledad, California KFRS 0089.9 FM
Springfield, Oregon KQFE 0088.9 FM
State College, Pennsylvania WXFR 0088.3 FM
Stuart, Florida WWFR 0091.7 FM
Toledo, Ohio WOTL 0090.3 FM
Ukiah, California KPRA 0089.5 FM
Vernon, Connecticut WCTF 1170 AM
Webster, New York WFRW 0088.1 FM
Youngstown, Ohio WYTN 0091.7 FM

Family Radio can be heard in English from the following local international stations:

  • Moscow, Russia: Center 1503 kHz AM
    • Weekdays 11pm - 12:30am and 8pm - 9:00pm
  • Istanbul, Turkey: Radio Joy FM 89.6 mHz
    • Weekdays 5am - 8am and 8 pm - 11pm
  • Maseru, Lesotho: 1197 kHz
    • Weekdays 6pm - 9pm and 10pm - 1am
  • Metro Manila, Philippines: DWSS 1494 kHz (Tagalog)
    • Weekdays 6pm - 10pm

Family Radio also offered international coverage via Short Wave Radio in several languages.

Translators

In addition to its full-powered stations, Family Radio is relayed by an additional 54 low-powered translators:

East Coast translators

Call sign Frequency City of license FID FCC info
W212AP 90.3 FM Notasulga, AL
W203AT 88.5 FM Albany, GA
W220AN 91.9 FM La Grange, GA
W220BD 91.9 FM Roanoke, VA
W203AL 88.5 FM Duluth, MN
W209BC 89.7 FM Wakelee, MI
W205AP 88.9 FM Pascagoula, MS
W212AG 90.3 FM Berwick, PA
W204AC 88.7 FM Emmaus, PA
W207AG 89.3 FM Freeland, PA
W215AF 90.9 FM Muncy, PA
W208AF 89.5 FM Nanticoke, PA
W280CV 103.9 FM Scranton, PA
W207AE 89.3 FM Reading, PA
W207AX 89.3 FM Burlington, VT
W206AH 89.1 FM Eau Claire, WI

West Coast Translators

Call sign Frequency City of license FID FCC info
K202CG 90.3 FM Jonesboro, AR
K205CI 90.3 FM Phoenix, AZ
K201CQ 88.1 FM Prescott, AZ
K217BJ 91.3 FM Banning, CA
K219AO 91.7 FM Fairmont, CA
K268AH 101.5 FM Palm Springs, CA
K241AJ 96.1 FM Palmdale, CA
K220EY 91.9 FM Porterville, CA
K227AH 93.3 FM River Pines, CA
K213BZ 90.5 FM Richvale, CA
K213CH 90.5 FM Ridgecrest, CA
K238AC 95.5 FM Salida, CA
K209CE 89.7 FM San Luis Obispo, CA
K204CL 88.7 FM Smith River, CA
K223AL 92.5 FM South Lake Tahoe, CA
K290AG 105.9 FM Stockton, CA
K214CA 90.7 FM Grand Junction, CO
K209BQ 89.7 FM Amana, IA
K236AA 95.1 FM Cedar Rapids, IA
K206BF 89.1 FM Fort Dodge, IA
K205CA 88.9 FM Ottumwa, IA
K206DU 89.1 FM Lafayette, LA
K272DU 102.3 FM Black Eagle, MT
K217CD 91.3 FM Great Falls, MT
K259AN 99.7 FM Billings, MT
K203EP 88.5 FM Shepherd, MT
K214CQ 90.7 FM Grand Island, NE
K220GM 91.9 FM Placitas, NM
K206BI 89.1 FM Carson City, NV
K254AK 98.7 FM Reno, NV

Television

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.truthradio.com/Camping.pdf
  2. ^ Family Radio Worldwide. Family Radio. 21 January 2008 <http://www.familyradio.com/>
  3. ^ a b Family Stations, Inc., Goliath Business Knowledge on Demand Cite error: The named reference "Family Stations fact sheet" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  4. ^ http://www.familyradio.com/x/whathappened.html
  5. ^ Family Radio announcement of the Rapture, retrieved, archived from the original on October 23, 2010
  6. ^ Family Radio broadcast programs, Family Stations, Inc.
  7. ^ Family Radio General Information, Family Stations, Inc.
  8. ^ Family Radio profile, Ministry Watchers.
  9. ^ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110524/ap_on_re_us/us_apocalypse_saturday
  10. ^ Goffard, Christopher (May 21, 2011). "Doomsday prediction: Harold Camping is at the heart of a mediapocalypse over his Doomsday prediction". Los Angeles Times. Oakland. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
  11. ^ Family Radio Monday/Friday Program Schedule, Family Stations, Inc.
  12. ^ State of the News Media 2006., Journalism.org
  13. ^ Who or What is Family Radio?, Family Stations, Inc.
  14. ^ Multiple Ownership;Radio Broadcast Stations, Small Business Administration, retrieved 2008-05-22
  15. ^ Infinity Broadcasting, CBS RADIO pressroom, retrieved 2008-05-22
  16. ^ Family Stations, KEAR 610 AM, Radiotime your guide to radio, retrieved 2008-05-22
  17. ^ "Family Stations text Bible". FamilyStations, Inc.
  18. ^ Harold Camping. "Open forum/text, authorized King James". FamilyStations, Inc. Retrieved 2008-05-30.
  19. ^ "Family Stations audio Bible". Family Stations, Inc. {{cite web}}: line feed character in |publisher= at position 7 (help)
  20. ^ "Apocalypse Not Yet: 'Rapture Hour' passes quietly". CBC News. May 22, 2011.
  21. ^ Family Radio gets a $1 million offer to sell their 66 stations - Radio-Info.com (released May 30, 2011)
  22. ^ Goodbye Harold - A Bible Answer (released May 23, 2011)
  23. ^ "Round 3 of the bidding for Family Radio FMs in two markets", News article from Radio-Info.com, http://www.radio-info.com/news/round-3-of-the-bidding-for-family-radio-fms-in-two-markets 3 August 2011; retrieved 8 August 2011.
  24. ^ ...Multiple Ownership of Radio Broadcast Stations in Local Markets, Small Business Administration, retrieved 2008-05-22 {{citation}}: line feed character in |publisher= at position 15 (help)
  25. ^ Pilkington, Ed (May 24, 2011). "Apocalypse still imminent: Rapture now coming in October". The Guardian. London.
  26. ^ http://ffrf.org/news/releases/ffrfs-fool-me-once-campaign-asks-onlookers-to-judge-religion/
  27. ^ http://ffrf.org/legal/Camping%20Letter.pdf
  28. ^ Harold Camping. "First Principles of Bible Study". Family Stations, Inc. Retrieved 2008-06-23.
  29. ^ May 21 is Judgment Day: Christian group
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