Harold Camping is president of Family Radio, a California-based religious network of 66 owned and operated radio stations across the United States. Beginning with a singular purchase of KEAR in San Francisco in 1958, Camping has built up an empire of media purposed for one thing: the dissemination of Camping's view of Christianity. "No one knows how many people believe Judgment Day is right around the corner. But it appears that many became believers in 2009 after turning on Family Radio, a Christian network worth more than $100 million," NPR recently reported.
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"Along with these domestic stations Family [Radio] also broadcasts its programming from numerous international broadcast facilities throughout the world," according to familyradio.com.
Camping has been warning of the end of the world on Family Radio for some time. He says two things are going to happen on May 21, 2011:
1) A great earthquake that will throw open all graves, resurrecting all believers and
2) All non-believers will be "thrown upon the ground to be shamed" says his website.
I should point out that Camping predicted the world would end back in 1994 but brushes that unfulfilled prediction aside saying "subsequent biblical information was not yet known." No matter, because now he says "... Today there is no longer any question."
