Family Radio
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'''Family Radio (Family Stations Inc.)''' is a [[public radio|non-commercial]], 24-hour, listener-supported, [[Christian radio]] religious broadcasting network in the [[United States]], founded in 1959 by [[Harold Camping]], also known as "Brother Camping" and is based in [[Oakland, California]]. The network consists mainly of [[FM broadcasting|FM radio]] stations with non-commercial licenses (and a few commercial licenses used as non-commercial) and relays, with some [[AM broadcasting|AM]] stations and a [[television]] station, plus [[WYFR]] [[shortwave]] in [[Okeechobee, Florida]]. The network produces programming in more than 30 languages.<ref>Family Radio Worldwide. Family Radio. 21 January 2008 <http://www.familyradio.com/index.htm></ref>
<ref name="Family Stations fact sheet">{{citation|title=Family Stations, Inc.|url=http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/product-compint-0001274570-page.html|publisher=Goliath Business Knowledge on Demand}}</ref>
==Programming==
Family Radio's music programming consists mainly of early American hymnals and avoids other [[genres]] generally, [[Contemporary Christian Music]] and [[southern gospel]] specifically.
One of Family Radio's most enduring broadcasts is a call-in broadcast called "Open Forum" in which Mr. Camping responds to callers' questions and comments as they relate to the Bible. "Family Bible Reading Fellowship", "Family Bible Study", "Sunday Preaching", "[[Beyond Intelligent Design]]", "Christian Home", and "Family Radio World Wide" are examples of other programming offered<ref name="Family Radio broadcast programs">{{citation|title=Family Radio broadcast programs|url=http://209.10.202.163/english/connect/broadcast/zone_sched/|publisher=
Family Stations, Inc.}}</ref>.
==Support==
Family Radio relies solely on listener-supported funding and donations, and is unaffiliated with any [[religious denomination]]<ref name="Family Radio General info.">{{citation|title=Family Radio General Information|url=http://www.familyradio.com/english/admin/|publisher=
Family Stations, Inc.}}</ref>.
Outside programming broadcasted over the Family Radio network is always aired free of charge and Family Radio does not sell programming time to ministries. Unlike other non-commercial stations, Family Radio stations do not get a percentage of donations coming from ministries in Family Radio listening areas. Few outside ministry programs are aired over Family Radio presently.
==Politics==
Family Radio has neither discussed [[politics]] directly, campaigned for political candidates nor recommended to their listeners candidates, or issues, for whom they should vote. Family Radio attempts to distance itself from political social issues -- one reason the "[[Focus on the Family]]" progam was removed in the early 1980s. Nevertheless, Family Radio has presented programs that may have political and social ramifications, such as advocating [[creationism]] <ref name="Family Radio Program Schedule">{{citation|title=Family Radio Monday/Friday Program Schedule|url=http://www.familyradio.com/english/connect/broadcast/zone_sched/cst.html
|publisher=Family Stations, Inc.}}</ref>.
==History==
Family Radio (aka Family Stations Inc.) began obtaining [[FM broadcasting]] licenses on
commercial frequencies earlier in FM radio's history, and by 2006, was
ranked 19th among top broadcast companies in number of radio stations owned
<ref name="News Media">
{{citation|title=State of the News Media 2006.|url=http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.org/2006/printable_radio_ownership.asp?|publisher=Journalism.org}}</ref>. Presently, Family Radio's affiliates in [[New York City]], [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania|Philadelphia]], Baltimore, [[Washington, DC|Washington]], and [[San Francisco, California|San Francisco]] are on prime commercial frequencies and the licenses of these stations alone
may be worth hundreds of millions of dollars if sold today.
In 1958, a Family Radio founder,[[Harold Camping]], joined with other individuals of [[Christian Reformed Church|Christian Reformed]], [[Bible Baptist]], and Conservative
Christian [[Presbyterian]] to purchase an [[FM broadcasting|FM]] radio
station in [[San Francisco, California]], [[KEAR]], then at 97.3 [[megahertz|MHz]], to
broadcast traditional [[Christian]] [[Gospel]] to the conservative [[Protestant]] community and [[religious ministry|minister]] to the general public. With the primary purpose of broadcasting [[doctrines]] of Christianity reflective of the teachings of the Holy Bible, Family Radio remained independent, never merging with any particular church organization or church denominations <ref name="Family Radio's Biography">{{citation|title=Who or What is Family Radio?|url=http://www.familyradio.com/english/connect/bio/haroldcamping_bio.html|publisher=Family Stations, Inc.}}</ref>
Through the 1960s, as a [[Religious ministry|ministry]], both [[non-profit organization]] and [[non-commercial]], Family Radio acquired 6 additional FM stations and 7 other [[AM broadcasting|AM]] stations under guidelines established by the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC)
<ref name="Multiple Ownership;Radio Broadcast Stations">{{citation|title=Multiple Ownership;Radio Broadcast Stations|url=http://www.sba.gov/advo/laws/comments/dfcc02_0313.txt|publisher=Small Business Administration|accessdate=2008-05-22}}</ref>. The flagship station for the network of both full-power and low-power translator stations is [[KEAR (AM)|KEAR]]
in San Francisco (now at 610 [[kilohertz|kHz]], since 2005 at 106.9 MHz).Due to FCC rules regarding translator stations, the legal primary station for the translators was changed to [[KEAR-FM]] in Sacramento, after the former primary FM station in San Francisco was sold to [[CBS Radio]]<ref name="Infinity Broadcasting, Radio">{{citation|title=Infinity Broadcasting|url=http://www.cbsradio.com/press_center/releases/pressrelease124011-04-18-2005.html|publisher=CBS RADIO pressroom|accessdate=2008-05-22}}</ref>.
With the sale of KEAR-FM to CBS Radio in 2005, broadcasts from San Francisco moved to an [[AM radio]] frequency<ref name="KEAR Family Radio Network 610 AM">{{citation|title=Family Stations, KEAR 610 AM
|url=http://radiotime.com/station/s_44534/Family_Radio_Network_610.aspx
|publisher=Radiotime your guide to radio|accessdate=2008-05-22}}</ref>. Family Radio continues to own other large market FM commercial band stations, including [[WFME]] 94.7 MHz [[Newark, NJ]] in the [[New York City]] [[radio market]].
Many program productions broadcast throughout the Family Radio station network were produced in the [[Oakland, California]] facilities. The production process involved pre-recording two weeks of [[broadcast programming]] on [[reel-to-reel tape]]s to be distributed to each Local Family Radio station. Free broadcast time was provided by Family Radio to national fundamentalist and [[evangelism|evangelical]] ministries -- outside ministries' programs were sent in [[compact audio cassette|cassette]] and reel-to-reel tape formats to respective Family Radio stations for local broadcast. Each local Family Radio station had local board operators providing local news, announcements, local traffic reports via phone call-in, and weather reports broadcast during morning and afternoon weekdays. Outside ministry programs included "[[Focus on the Family]]" (which was pulled in 1985), "Freedom Under Fire", "[[Unshackled]]", "[[Back to the Bible]]",
"[[Focus on the Family|Family News in Focus]]", and [[Beyond intelligent design]].
Local Family Radio stations broadcast church services from local community
[[fundamentalism]] churches, and a remainder of Family Radio's broadcast time was
allocated to traditional [[Christian music]].
By the late 1980s, programming was delivered via satellite, local news was taken off the
stations in favor of a various national news from a Christian news source, and presently, all but a few local announcements are produced at their Oakland, California facilities <ref name="Family Stations fact sheet">{{citation|title=Family Stations fact sheet|url=http://www.hoovers.com/free|publisher=Hoovers, a D&B Co.|accessdate=2008-05-22}}</ref>.
Music broadcast by Family Radio in the 1960s and 1970s was typical of religious stations, commercial and non-commercial. Some commercial stations played [[Contemporary Christian Music]] (CCM) for a few hours a week, but in the 1980s, as commercial and some non-commercial Christian stations evolved to Contemporary formats, Family Radio remained with traditional music formats such as [[choir]] [[hymns]], various Gospel singing groups, vocalists of the 1950s, and softer [[urban contemporary gospel]] songs. In the
1990s, Family Radio included some lighter contemporary Christian artists but
abandoned this direction by 2002.
Family Radio's text publications, and their telephone call-in program, "Open Forum," have continued to be based on the text of the authorized [[King James Bible]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Family Stations text Bible|url=http://www.familyradio.com/graphical/literature/frame/|publisher=FamilyStations, Inc.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Open forum/text, authorized King James|url=http://forms.familyradio.org/dbqf/forum_100207j.html|publisher=FamilyStations, Inc.|author=Harold Camping|accessdate=2008-05-30}}</ref>. Prerecorded Bible readings broadcast over satellite, shortwave, radio frequencies and the internet are generally based on the Modern King James Bible<ref>{{cite web|title=Family Stations audio Bible|url=http://www.familyradio.com/english/connect/audio_archive/fbrf/|publisher=Family
Stations, Inc. }}</ref>.
==Stations==
===Satellite===
[[Eutelsat]] Hotbird 6 - 13 degrees east, Transponder # 89, Vertical LNB polarization; Satellite frequency: 12.597 GHZ
* Family Radio Europe (English): channel 8222
* Family Radio International 1: channel 8233
* Family Radio International 2: Channel 8234
[[Astra]] 2B - 28.2 degrees East, Transponder # 36, Vertical LNB polarization, Satellite frequency: 12.4024 GHz
* Family Radio Europe (English) : SID 9558
===Full-powered stations===
{{RadioTranslators
| call1 = WBFR
| freq1 = 89.5 FM
| city1 = Birmingham, AL
| call2 = KPHF
| freq2 = 88.3 FM
| city2 = Phoenix, AZ
| call3 = KFRB
| freq3 = 91.3 FM
| city3 = Bakersfield, CA
| call4 = KHAP
| freq4 = 89.1 FM
| city4 = Chico, CA
| call5 = KECR
| freq5 = 910 FM
| city5 = El Cajon, CA
| call6 = KFNO
| freq6 = 90.3 FM
| city6 = Fresno, CA
| call7 = KEFR
| freq7 = 89.9 FM
| city7 = Le Grand, CA
| call8 = KFRN
| freq8 = 1280 FM
| city8 = Long Beach, California
| call9 = KEAR
| freq9 = 610 AM
| city9 = San Francisco, CA
| call10 = KEDR
| freq10 = 88.1 FM;
| city10 = Sacramento, CA
| call11 = KEBR
| freq11 = 1210 AM;
| city11 = Rocklin, CA
| call12 = KEAR
| freq12 = 610 AM;
| city12 = San Francisco
| call13 = KFRS
| freq13 = 89.9 FM;
| city13 = Soledad, CA
| call14 = KPRA
| freq14 = 89.5 FM;
| city14 = Ukiah, CA
| call15 = WCTF
| freq15 = 1170 AM;
| city15 = Vernon, CT
| call16 = WMFL
| freq16 = 88.5 FM;
| city16 = Florida City, FL
| call17 = WJFR
| freq17 = 88.7 FM;
| city17 = Jacksonville, FL
| call18 = WYFR
| freq18 = SW;
| city18 = Okeechobee, FL
| call19 = WWFR
| freq19 = 91.7 FM;
| city19 = Okeechobee, FL
| call20 = WFTI
| freq20 = 91.7 FM;
| city20 = St. Petersburg, FL
| call21 = WFRP
| freq21 = 88.7 FM
| city21 = Americus, GA
}}
* WFRC Columbus, GA 90.5 FM
* WJCH Joliet, IL 91.9 FM
* KDFR Des Moines, IA 91.3 FM
* [[KYFR]] Shenandoah, IA 920 AM
* KPOR Emporia, KS 90.7 FM
* WFSI Annapolis, MD 107.9 FM
* WBGR Baltimore, MD 860 AM
* WBMD Baltimore, MD 750 AM
* WOFR Schoolcraft, MI 89.5 FM
* KFRD Butte, MT 88.3 FM
* KBFR Bismarck, ND 91.7 FM
* WKDN Camden, NJ / Philadelphia 106.9 FM
* [[WFME]] Newark, NJ 94.7 FM
* WFBF Buffalo, NY 89.9 FM
* WFRH Kingston, NY 91.7 FM
* WFRS Smithtown, NY 88.9 FM
* WFRW Webster, NY 88.1 FM
* WFSO Olivebridge, NY 88.3 FM
* WCUE Cuyahoga Falls, OH 1150 AM
* WOTL Toledo, OH 90.3 FM
* WYTN Youngstown, OH 91.7 FM
* WEFR Erie, PA 88.1 FM
* WFRJ Johnstown, PA 88.9 FM
* WFCH Charleston, SC 88.5 FM
* KQFR Rapid City, SD 89.9 FM
* KTXB Beaumont, TX 89.7 FM
* KUFR Salt Lake City, UT 91.7 FM
* KARR Kirkland / Seattle, WA 1460 AM
* KJVH Longview, WA 89.5 FM
* WMWK Milwaukee, WI 88.1 FM
Family Radio can be heard in English from the following local international stations:
* Moscow, Russia, Center 1503 kHz AM
11 pm to 12:30 am, and 8 pm to 9:00 pm
*Istanbul, Turkey, Radio Joy FM 89.6 mHz
5 am to 8 am, and 8 pm to 11 pm
*Southern Africa, Maseru, Kingdom of Lesatho, 1197 kHz
6 pm to 9 pm, and 10 pm to 1 am.
===Translators===
In addition to its full-powered stations, Family Radio is relayed by an additional 54 low-powered translators:
{{RadioTranslators
| call1 = W205AP
| freq1 = 88.9
| city1 = Pascagoula, MS
| call2 = K227AH
| freq2 = 93.3
| city2 = River Pines, CA
| call3 = K204CL
| freq3 = 88.7
| city3 = Smith River, CA
| call4 = K209CE
| freq4 = 89.7
| city4 = San Luis Obispo, CA
| call5 = K272DU
| freq5 = 102.3
| city5 = Black Eagle, MT
| call6 = K217CD
| freq6 = 91.3
| city6 = Great Falls, MT
| call7 = K220EI
| freq7 = 91.9
| city7 = Ogden, UT
| call8 = K259AN
| freq8 = 99.7
| city8 = Billings, MT
| call9 = K290AG
| freq9 = 105.9
| city9 = Stockton, CA
| call10 = K268AH
| freq10 = 101.5
| city10 = Palm Springs, CA
| call11 = W203AT
| freq11 = 88.5
| city11 = Albany, GA
| call12 = K217BJ
| freq12 = 91.3
| city12 = Banning, CA
| call13 = K206BF
| freq13 = 89.1
| city13 = Fort Dodge, IA
| call14 = W206AH
| freq14 = 89.1
| city14 = Eau Claire, WI
| call15 = K206BI
| freq15 = 89.1
| city15 = Carson City, NV
| call16 = W220BD
| freq16 = 91.9
| city16 = Roanoke, VA
| call17 = W215AF
| freq17 = 90.9
| city17 = Muncy, PA
| call18 = K223AL
| freq18 = 92.5
| city18 = South Lake Tahoe, CA
| call19 = K216CJ
| freq19 = 91.1
| city19 = Galveston, TX
| call20 = K219CK
| freq20 = 91.7
| city20 = Coos Bay, OR
| call21 = K214CQ
| freq21 = 90.7
| city21 = Grand Island, NE
| call22 = K209BQ
| freq22 = 89.7
| city22 = Amana, IA
| call23 = K219BX
| freq23 = 91.7
| city23 = El Paso, TX
| call24 = K254AK
| freq24 = 98.7
| city24 = Reno, NV
| call25 = W203AL
| freq25 = 88.5
| city25 = Duluth, MN
| call26 = K205CA
| freq26 = 88.9
| city26 = Ottumwa, IA
| call27 = K213BZ
| freq27 = 90.5
| city27 = Richvale, CA
| call28 = K214CA
| freq28 = 90.7
| city28 = Grand Junction, CO
| call29 = W220AN
| freq29 = 91.9
| city29 = La Grange, GA
| call30 = K201CQ
| freq30 = 88.1
| city30 = Prescott, AZ
}}
{{RadioTranslators
| call1 = K214BO
| freq1 = 90.7
| city1 = Ashland, OR
| call2 = K202BY
| freq2 = 88.3
| city2 = Enid, OK
| call3 = K206DU
| freq3 = 89.1
| city3 = Lafayette, LA
| call4 = W207AG
| freq4 = 89.3
| city4 = Freeland, PA
| call5 = K220EY
| freq5 = 91.9
| city5 = Porterville, CA
| call6 = K205CI
| freq6 = 88.9
| city6 = Phoenix, AZ
| call7 = W212AG
| freq7 = 90.3
| city7 = Berwick, PA
| call8 = K219CA
| freq8 = 91.7
| city8 = Casper, WY
| call9 = K203BE
| freq9 = 88.5
| city9 = Roseburg, OR
| call10 = K220GM
| freq10 = 91.9
| city10 = Placitas, NM
| call11 = W209BC
| freq11 = 89.7
| city11 = Wakelee, MI
| call12 = K213CH
| freq12 = 90.5
| city12 = Ridgecrest, CA
| call13 = K219AO
| freq13 = 91.7
| city13 = Fairmont, CA
| call14 = K203EP
| freq14 = 88.5
| city14 = Shepherd, MT
| call15 = W207AX
| freq15 = 89.3
| city15 = Burlington, VT
| call16 = K203CI
| freq16 = 88.5
| city16 = Cave Junction, OR
| call17 = W212AP
| freq17 = 90.3
| city17 = Notasulga, AL
| call18 = K238AC
| freq18 = 95.5
| city18 = Salida, CA
| call19 = K241AJ
| freq19 = 96.1
| city19 = Palmdale, CA
| call20 = W280CV
| freq20 = 103.9
| city20 = Scranton, PA
| call21 = W208AF
| freq21 = 89.5
| city21 = Nanticoke, PA
| call22 = K261BF
| freq22 = 100.1
| city22 = Black Butte, OR
| call23 = K202CG
| freq23 = 88.3
| city23 = Jonesboro, AR
| call24 = K236AA
| freq24 = 95.1
| city24 = Cedar Rapids, IA
}}
===Television===
* [[WFME-TV]], [[West Milford, New Jersey|West Milford]] - [[Newark, New Jersey]]
==See also==
* [[Harold Camping]]
==External links==
* [http://www.familyradio.com/ Family Radio Worldwide Website]
==References==
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