Family Radio, also known by its licensee name Family Stations Inc., is a Christian radio network based in Oakland, California, USA, founded by Lloyd Lindquist, Richard H. Palmquist and Harold Camping. The network consists mainly of FM radio stations with non-commercial licenses (and a few commercial licenses used as non-commercial) and relays, with some AM stations and two television stations. In mid-2013 Family Radio announced that WYFR, its shortwave station in Okeechobee, Florida, would shut down permanently on June 30, 2013. The network produces programming in more than 40 languages.
Family Radio is best known for the incorrect end time dates made on the air by Harold Camping. He taught that the Rapture would occur on four different occasions; first he said it would happen in September 1994, then he taught that the date was March 1995. More recently on May 21, 2011, his third prediction attracted worldwide media interest. Following the failure of that prediction, the Family Radio website was updated to a new design that falls back to the date of October 21, 2011 for the end of the world, which originally was the end of the "five months of torment" including:
They fired off the first shot
So we're on our feet and running
We're re-writing all the text books
In the process of becoming
We've so much to live for
If we stop putting up a fight
There's a place for every story
And this one starts with us tonight
Let me take you down
To Café Europa
There's so much to be found
So much to discover
Let me take you down
To Café Europa
There's so much to be found
I won't let you down
We're travelling by moonlight
From London to the Highlands
We lose ourselves in inner cities
In the hope of re-defining
The space that surrounds us
Or the emptiness within
It's all in the papers
The boy's in love again
Always arriving
Headlights lit up from coast to coast
Empty days, full to bursting
With the names of the people and places we miss the most
I'm taking the last train
Flying the last flight
Calling on the angels
They're letting in the sunlight
Let me take you down
To Café Europa
There's so much to be found
I won't let you down
It's the heart that has been broken