Mike said:
Nor will they let go of 94.7 WFME in Newark.
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Nor will they let go of 94.7 WFME in Newark.
sloux said:
That is one thing I can say about Family Radio. Even if you disagree with the philosophy you have to admit that it is EDUCATIONAL - that is, knowledge is gained. So many of the Christian non-comm networks are really more entertainment than enlightenment. It sells, but I question whether it's an accurate use of "non-commercial educational" frequencies.
Dave B.
I just caught this thread today, and wanted to let the rest of you know that I personally did call Mr. Camping on his bluff back in 1994, I think it was. He made the same claim back then, with a date in September 1994, I think. I was trying to start a public radio station in Santa Rosa at the time, which had an inadequate signal area in its construction permit, coincidentally because it was one that Family Radio had applied for, and subsequently abandoned when it got fullpowered FM licenses in Ukiah, and one pending in Sacramento.
I heard him on the Ronn Owens show on KGO describe how he had figured out the date of the "end of days." We had no money other than what we could raise on a direct mail pitch about our prospective signal for a new mostly-classical music NPR outlet in the wine country. So, as program director, I drafted a letter, with the permission of my boss, and asked him, if he was really serious about his claims, to demonstrate that to the world by assigning the licenses of a handful of his Northern California licenses to us and to a couple of other non-comms (whose signals, incidentally, were impacted by their expansion, such as KVMR and Capitol Public Radio). I knew Camping was the force behind everything that Family Radio programmed, and besides offering the driest sacred music format and talk programs known to the English world, he also featured classical sacred music arias on Sunday afternoons. Thought there might be a common bond there.
I suggested that the comfort of the classical music that we were planning to broadcast, such as Bach and Mozart, would be what those "left behind" would need to endure -- if that's the scenario he was asking his listeners to bank on. Even put it in writing and sent the proposal to him in Oakland. His response, when I reached him by phone a couple of weeks later, was - quote -- "that's the craziest thing I've ever heard." That's when I learned that a sense of Irony is lost on fundamentalists.
I heard him on the Ronn Owens show on KGO describe how he had figured out the date of the "end of days." We had no money other than what we could raise on a direct mail pitch about our prospective signal for a new mostly-classical music NPR outlet in the wine country. So, as program director, I drafted a letter, with the permission of my boss, and asked him, if he was really serious about his claims, to demonstrate that to the world by assigning the licenses of a handful of his Northern California licenses to us and to a couple of other non-comms (whose signals, incidentally, were impacted by their expansion, such as KVMR and Capitol Public Radio). I knew Camping was the force behind everything that Family Radio programmed, and besides offering the driest sacred music format and talk programs known to the English world, he also featured classical sacred music arias on Sunday afternoons. Thought there might be a common bond there.
I suggested that the comfort of the classical music that we were planning to broadcast, such as Bach and Mozart, would be what those "left behind" would need to endure -- if that's the scenario he was asking his listeners to bank on. Even put it in writing and sent the proposal to him in Oakland. His response, when I reached him by phone a couple of weeks later, was - quote -- "that's the craziest thing I've ever heard." That's when I learned that a sense of Irony is lost on fundamentalists.
sloux said:
Of course, both men have had toes in each medium.
We know about Family Radio's TV side, and Gene Scott had radio output as well...at one point, renting 24/7 transmitter time from religious/brokered WWCR shortwave out of Nashville TN.
If WWCR's website program schedule is still accurate, his widow Melissa apparently still rents large blocks of time for his programming. (Of course, Melissa herself is now doing a lot.)
http://www.wwcr.com/program-guides/WWCR_Program_Guide.pdf
I broke the shortwave out of the closet last night, and I heard another crackpot preacher saying that Harold Camping was wrong, but only because according to the bible, the world had only been around 6 thousand years!
DavidKaye said:
You're missing my point. I said knowledge was gained. I didn't say it was accurate. So much of today's non-comm Christian radio is a re-hashed version of a soft rock / AC format with Christian artists. There's not even an attempt to educate.
Dave B.
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