When shortwave broadcasting began in the United States, two of the earliest stations were General Electric's 2XAF and 2XAD in Schenectady, New York. These became W2XAF and W2XAD, and were widely heard throughout the world. In 1939, when stations exchanged their "X" calls for regular four-letter calls, they became WGEO and WGEA. WGEO operated with 100 kw. and was the most powerful American shortwave broadcaster at the time. WGEO and WGEA went into full-time VOA service when the federal government took over all U.S. shortwave broadcasting in 1942. The VOA stateside stations continued to announce their own call letters and their corporate parentage long after that, however.

Here is the audio of five original 33-1/3 rpm LP records which were used by WGEO-WGEA for giving announcements. You can click on the "play button" for each label to hear the audio from that record. In general they are short announcements, in English except where otherwise noted, with the same announcement repeated in multiple tracks on the same side of the record. The exact dates of most of the recordings is unclear. However, Label G is marked 1/1/46 and Label H is marked 5/19/58.