First Radio Transmission Antenna in Springfield (Springfield, Massachusetts)

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The first radio signal licensed to Springfield was that of WBZ(A). Earliest accounts show it on the air in June of 1922. Taken from the official Department of Commerce publication of June, 1922. Stations generally operated on 360 meters (833 kHz) at this time. 900 WBZA Springfield MA 5000 Licensed to Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. The towers still stand to this day, on top of the Westinghouse Building on Page Boulevard, and only a couple of years ago did the Dipole Antenna connecting the two fall down.
Westinghouse's WBZ in Springfield, Massachusetts actually began broadcasting in September 1921, Springfield's very first remote broadcast from the Eastern States Exposition in West Springfield! The choice of Springfield as a location may not be obvious today, but the Springfield plant had been selected as the place where Westinghouse would turn out those newly demanded receivers that were supposed to be the financial base of this new phenomenon called broadcasting.

Once on their feet and accepted as a new form of media, the station was known as "WBZ The Broadcasting Station of New England" This is the earliest known slogan from the 20's and 30's.

See www.springfieldradio.com/spfldhist.html for more Springfield Radio history.