Could Jehovah's Witnesses start a Radio Talk Show program about their faith?

Answer 1

It's doubtful. They are very careful about what they release to the public - there's even some literature they won't give out.

ANSWER FROM ONE OF JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES

Jehovah's Witnesses have used radio broadcasts extensively to publish their faith; they owned their own radio station which broadcasted bible topics from 1924-1957.

According to the Jehovah's Witness Manual on their history "Jehovah's Witnesses Proclaimers of God's Kingdom pub. 1984 WBTS chap 25 p.562"

"Less than two years after the world's first commercial radio station began regular broadcasts (in 1920), J. F. Rutherford, president of the Watch Tower Society, went on the air to broadcast Bible truth. [...] Within two more years, in 1924, the Society had its own radio station, WBBR, in operation in New York. By 1933*, the peak year, 408 stations were being used to carry the message to six continents. In addition to live broadcasts, programs on scores of subjects were prerecorded."

*including the countries of Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Cuba, France, South Africa, Estonia, Uruguay, Alaska, Hawaii, Philippines as well as the United States. In that year, 23,783 Bible talks were transmitted.

PRESENT DAY RADIO BROADCASTS

Radio has continued to be used by Jehovah's Witnesses in many areas of the world up to the present day. For example in Suriname, in AFRICA, Jehovah's Witnesses obtained a regular weekly 15-minute program slot the nationwide radio station Apinti, called "Things People Are Thinking About." , also diffused in several other African countries such as in Uganda.

The radio has been used as a preaching tool throughout Micronesia, most effectively in the Marshall Islands where the radio station WSZO, known as The Golden Voice of the Marshalls, have been producing a weekly 15-minute radio talk in the Marshallese language since the 1970s - especially designed especially to reach people on the outer atolls.