WGI was an early radio broadcasting station, licensed to the American Radio and Research Corporation (AMRAD) of Medford Hillside, Massachusetts. WGI received its initial broadcasting license on February 7, 1922. However, the station had previously made regular broadcasts under an experimental license as 1XE, which were the first organized broadcasts in the Boston area.
"Main Factory of the American Radio and Research Corporation. Medford Hillside, Mass. Home of Amrad Radio. Showing at extreme right Research and Engineering Laboratories and Broadcasting Station WGI, the Pioneer Radiophone for Broadcasting to the Layman Public." (Caption from 1922 company advertisement)
Advertisement for AMRAD radio receivers (1922)
Tufts professor Edward H. Rockwell broadcasting an educational lecture over WGI (1922)
Eunice Randall was an AMRAD engineer who in the summer of 1922 read children's stories on Tuesday and Thursday nights for WGI.
WBZ is a commercial AM radio station, licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, and owned and operated by iHeartMedia, Inc. Its studios and offices are located on Cabot Road in the Boston suburb of Medford.
Maude Gray, Prima Donna of the Aborn Musical Comedy Co., performing at WBZ (1922)
WBZA towers on roof of the Hotel Statler, Boston, in 1927
Aerial view of the Hull transmitter site
Jonathan Elias, Joe Mathieu, Lisa Hughes and Peter Casey at the 73rd Annual Peabody Awards for WBZ's coverage of the Boston Marathon bombing.
