WGRI

WGRI (1050 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, featuring an urban gospel format known as "Inspiration 1050".

[7] At the end of 1957, WZIP, Incorporated, successor to Northern Kentucky Airwaves, filed to sell the station to a corporation controlled by Len Goorian, a longtime television personality in the area, and attorney Alfred B. Katz for $150,000.

[9] Goorian and Katz filed to increase the station's power to 1,000 watts[3] and relocated executive offices to the Hotel Vernon Manor, across the river in Cincinnati.

[10] At the end of 1958, Goorian and Katz sold WZIP to a new corporation headed by Ed Skotch, Dan Balsamo, and Monte Fassnacht,[11] known as Greater Cincinnati Radio.

The Lindner brothers also owned the United Dairy Farmers convenience store chain and Thriftway Super Markets in the Cincinnati area.

[14] The Lindners also received a construction permit to build a new FM radio station, WZIP-FM 92.5,[15] but it would not sign on the air under their ownership, as WZIP-AM-FM was purchased by the Waukegan News-Sun newspaper in Illinois for $450,000 in 1961.

[21] In February 1971, WZIP-FM became easy listening WWEZ; it moved to separate studios in Highland Towers, leaving WZIP in Vernon Manor.

[25] The principal of Jacor, making its first station purchases, was Terry S. Jacobs, senior vice president of Great American Insurance Company.

[28] Guardian was one of the largest contributors to a successful 1993 voter-approved amendment to Cincinnati's city charter that removed discrimination protections for gays and lesbians.

[29] Guardian, with its nine stations in Albuquerque, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Cleveland and Pueblo, Colorado, was put up for auction in 1996 in an event precipitated by one of the 1050 frequency's former owners.