22 Facts About Family Radio

Family Radio, known by its licensee name Family Stations, Inc, is a non-profit, non-denominational, educational Christian radio network based in Franklin, Tennessee with network operations located in Alameda, California, United States.

For decades, Family Radio avoided any types of Contemporary Christian Music and only played traditional.

One of Family Radio's oldest broadcasts was a telephone-talk program called Open Forum in which Harold Camping, the network's co-founder, president and general manager, responded to callers' questions and comments, as they relate to the Bible, and used the platform to promote his various end-time predictions.

Family Radio has broadcast programs and features from outside ministries, including Answers in Genesis, hosted by Ken Ham, as well as teaching programs hosted by James Montgomery Boice, Donald Barnhouse, John F MacArthur, R C Sproul, John Piper, and Alistair Begg.

Family Radio relies solely on listener-supported funding and donations, and is unaffiliated with any religious denomination.

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Outside programming broadcast over the Family Radio network was limited as Camping considered the organized church apostate, and therefore devoid of God's Spirit and under Satan's control.

Listenership of Family Radio understandably declined after the failed 1994 prediction, but before long the organization was growing at a rate much higher than it had previously experienced.

Family Radio then grew his broadcast empire so that by 1994 Family Radio comprised forty radio stations nationwide.

Originally founded by Richard H Palmquist, with the assistance of Harold Camping and Lloyd Lindquist as fellow members of the initial Board of Directors, Family Radio began obtaining FM broadcasting licenses on commercial frequencies in 1959, and by 2006, was ranked 19th among top broadcast companies in number of radio stations owned.

In 1958, the radio broadcaster Richard Palmquist met Harold Camping and persuaded him to provide the financial backing needed for them to co-found Family Radio, joined with other individuals of Christian Reformed, Bible Baptist, and Conservative Christian Presbyterian churches to purchase an FM radio station in San Francisco, California, KEAR, then at 97.

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.

Up until the late 1980s, Family Radio endorsed local church attendance but once Camping stated the church age was over, he went on to say that Christians should not be members or attend church services of any type.

Family Radio's actions led to mounting criticism from former supporters and led some Family Radio staff members to resign as well as some outside ministries and churches to leave the network.

The loss of these programs from the Family Radio schedule gave Camping more airtime to express his teachings.

WFSI would be purchased in November 2011 by CBS Family Radio, which converted the station to a Spanish language dance music format under the WLZL call sign.

In January 2012, Family Radio applied to the FCC to change the license of station WFME in Newark, New Jersey, near New York City, from non-commercial to commercial.

Family Radio's death was confirmed by an employee of the ministry.

Family Radio redesigned its Web site and introduced it in its new format in June 2014, and updated it again three years later.

In September 2018, Family Radio announced it would no longer air programs featuring the voice of Harold Camping, and would no longer distribute literature of Camping's teachings.

Several years after Camping's death in 2013, Family Radio continued to air some of his past broadcasts and distribute his literature.

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

Until July 1,2013, Family Radio offered international coverage via short wave radio station WYFR in several languages; its short wave service ceased operations on July 1,2013.