You know, this isn't the first time to good Reverend has predicted an end to the world as we know it, based on his calculations of the "secret numbers in the Bible." I know of at least one other date he set and promoted in the mid 1990s. Seems we're all still here.
At that time, I asked him, on my station's letterhead (and with the OK of the CEO) to agree to turn over some of his prime California licenses to the classical non-comm station we were starting, as a way to comfort those of us who remained to watch Armageddon USA in person with the great music of Bach and Handel. And as a way to prove to skeptics that he was serious. (Coincidentally our station was established on one of Family Radio's discarded Construction Permit frequencies, when his crew found a stronger facility they could build a bit up the road). Camping replied to me on the phone, after I had sent the proposal to his attention by registered mail, that it was "the craziest thing" he'd ever heard. (we didn't have internet web boards then, or else perhaps this could have turned into a national story.) Now who's really crazy here in 2011???
Hey, if an ex-felon can't hold an FCC license, or a "foreign national," what about a mentally unstable person, who uses their many frequencies to rob little old ladies who are afraid of the impending "end", and gets treated as a tax-exempt entity to boot? (Sorry, that reason for revoking licenses would probably turn the radio industry in the US on its head, when you checked the character of a lot of other licensees - an "end of the world as we know it" in a whole other way!)
Otherwise, Brother Harold is quite a bit up there in years. Likely to reach his own end "the old fashioned way" in not too many years. Wonder what Family radio will turn into when he's finally out of the picture?
