May 21 and October 21, 2011: The Predictions and the Aftermath

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From the 1990s onward, Family Radio became closely associated with Harold Camping's own biblical numerology and his repeated calculations of specific end times dates, most prominently May 21 and October 21, 2011, which the network promoted heavily through broadcasts and billboards purchased with listener donations. Camping calculated that the Rapture would occur on the first date and the world itself would end on the second, claims the network carried across its full broadcasting reach in the months leading up to both dates.

After the predicted dates passed without event, Family Radio scaled back Camping's own Bible teaching programming, and the network posted a statement afterward acknowledging that setting specific dates had been a mistake. Family Radio has since distanced itself from that end times teaching and today carries outside programming including Alistair Begg and Answers in Genesis, continuing as an active nonprofit Christian radio network under Tom Evans's leadership well after the predictions that briefly made it a subject of national attention had passed without the event they foretold.