A BOLD INITIATIVE IN RADIO

 The brothers at Bethel had been working for more than a year to build WBBR radio station on Staten Island, New York City. After clearing the land, they constructed a large home for the workers and a separate building for the equipment. When this work was completed, the brothers began to assemble the equipment necessary to go "on the air." But they would need to overcome several obstacles. 

The brothers found that installing the main antenna for the station proved difficult. The 91-meter-long (300-foot-long) antenna needed to be hung between two wooden masts that were each 61 meters (200 ft) tall. The first attempt failed. Trusting in Jehovah's help, the brothers finally succeeded. Calvin Prosser, who worked on the project, observed, "If our first attempt had succeeded, we wouldn't have patted ourselves on the back and said, 'Look at we did!"' The brothers credited their success to Jehovah, but their problems were not over. 

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