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Reminder: The Rescheduled Rapture Is October 21!

I'm sorry but I have an important appointment on the 21st. Camping is going to have to revise his schedule. ;D
 
I'm on a plane on the 21st. So if the end happens, I'll be in the air. Bird's eye view. Wonder where we'll land. Hmmm.
 
Look at the SF boards for more details of the October 21 plan. Does this Mean that CBS could buy the Camping stations in other cities? I know back in 2005 CBS Sold KFRC "the Big 610" to Camping and he had to air Oakland A's games under the contract of the sale so CBS can get 106.9FM in San Francisco. Is Harold Camping airing sports on his other stations?
 
If I have this Correct Dr.Don Rose " KFRC The Big 610" DJ died the same year that Harold Camping took over 610 AM in San Francisco but it was just a coincidence on that one.
 
I don't really listen to this station, but I don't really like it. If Family Radio dies on October 21st, on all stations including WFME and WFRH in the Hudson Valley, maybe they should stunt with Britney Spears "Till the World Ends" for the weekend. I would love to see WFRH in Kingston goes dark. Maybe let 91.7 do it to run "Fox Drive".
 
recto101 said:
Look at the SF boards for more details of the October 21 plan. Does this Mean that CBS could buy the Camping stations in other cities? I know back in 2005 CBS Sold KFRC "the Big 610" to Camping and he had to air Oakland A's games under the contract of the sale so CBS can get 106.9FM in San Francisco. Is Harold Camping airing sports on his other stations?
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What on earth drove a reputable organisation like CBS to do a deal with Camping? Were there no other buyers?
 
BMR said:
What on earth drove a reputable organisation like CBS to do a deal with Camping? Were there no other buyers?
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Camping had something in exchange: the powerful FM signal on 106.9 that had been KEAR-FM. Camping needed cash and CBS needed to get out of a weird regulatory glitch: because of a quirk in FCC rules having to do with TV-radio crossownership, CBS had to get rid of KFRC 610 AM. (The big 610 signal carried far enough into the Central Valley to city-grade Stockton, which would have put CBS over the ownership limit there and prevented it from acquiring a second TV station in the Sacramento-Stockton market.)

Both sides ended up winning: Camping was able to stay on the air in San Francisco on AM while pocketing tens of millions of dollars in cash for his FM signal. CBS was able to unload an AM signal that wasn't doing much for them, and while they didn't manage to make much impact with the 106.9 FM signal at first, the third try at an FM format (a simulcast of all-news KCBS) has worked well for them.

There were no other broadcasters in San Francisco with a similar opportunity to offer CBS at the time.
 
Scott Fybush said:
Both sides ended up winning: Camping was able to stay on the air in San Francisco on AM while pocketing tens of millions of dollars in cash for his FM signal.
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Harold Camping and Family Stations, Inc. actually "pocketed" $95-million cash plus KFRC-AM 610 in exchange for KEAR's 80kw class B 106.9 San Francisco signal. Camping has three more trump cards in WKDN 106.9 B Philadelphia; WFSI-FM 107.9 B Baltimore / Washington; and WFME 94.7 B New York.
 
Scott Fybush said:
BMR said:
What on earth drove a reputable organisation like CBS to do a deal with Camping? Were there no other buyers?
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Camping had something in exchange: the powerful FM signal on 106.9 that had been KEAR-FM. Camping needed cash and CBS needed to get out of a weird regulatory glitch: because of a quirk in FCC rules having to do with TV-radio crossownership, CBS had to get rid of KFRC 610 AM. (The big 610 signal carried far enough into the Central Valley to city-grade Stockton, which would have put CBS over the ownership limit there and prevented it from acquiring a second TV station in the Sacramento-Stockton market.)

Both sides ended up winning: Camping was able to stay on the air in San Francisco on AM while pocketing tens of millions of dollars in cash for his FM signal. CBS was able to unload an AM signal that wasn't doing much for them, and while they didn't manage to make much impact with the 106.9 FM signal at first, the third try at an FM format (a simulcast of all-news KCBS) has worked well for them.

There were no other broadcasters in San Francisco with a similar opportunity to offer CBS at the time.
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Lets not forget the 1970's when CBS sold 98.9 FM for 97.3FM and Camping bought 106.9 from KMPX I do not know who the KMPX owners were in the 1970's when they sold 106.9 for 98.9 FM?
 
recto101 said:
Is Harold Camping airing sports on his other stations?
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There's only one major sport airing on Family Radio, and that's Rapture Morning Quarterbacking. ::)
 
The whole "doomsday" scenario is a disgusting embarrassment. It truly is.

I would love to see that 94.7 signal in the NY/NJ area sold to someone like K-Love. Then they could flip the 96.7 to their other network, "Air1" which is more youth-oriented in format and style. I'd reset my receiver to 94.7 in that case. ;)
 
First we have to wait and see if the world ends on Friday.

Maybe Harold Camping is predicting his own fate. He predicted the world would end on May 21, then got a stroke. Now he predicts the universe will be destroyed, so maybe he will go to heaven.
 
WPHA said:
The whole "doomsday" scenario is a disgusting embarrassment. It truly is.

I would love to see that 94.7 signal in the NY/NJ area sold to someone like K-Love. Then they could flip the 96.7 to their other network, "Air1" which is more youth-oriented in format and style. I'd reset my receiver to 94.7 in that case. ;)
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Except they will have December 21 as the next rapture in the schedule.
 
With the pattern being every five months, the next likely date that Father Camping would reschedule the rapture to is March 21, 2012... but let's wait it out on Friday and we'll get to that bridge when we cross it. ;D

By the way... Anyone notice a lack of bus and subway ads for the "new rapture" this time around? Do I sense a "boy who cried wolf" mentality about this whole "rapture" thing? ::)
 
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