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| City | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Broadcast area | Delaware Valley |
| Slogan | Your Classical and Jazz Station |
| Frequency | 90.1 MHz (also on HD Radio) |
| Translator(s) | See § Simulcasts and translators |
| Repeater(s) | See § Simulcasts and translators |
| First air date | 1953 (originally carrier current 1948-53) |
| Format | Analog/HD1/HD2: Classical/Jazz |
| Language(s) | English |
| ERP | 7,700 watts |
| HAAT | 371 meters (1,217 ft) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 65190 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°2′29.6″N 75°14′11.5″W / 40.041556°N 75.236528°W (NAD27) |
| Callsign meaning | WRTI: Radio Training Institute |
| Owner | Temple University |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www |
WRTI (90.1 FM) is a non-commercial, public FM radio station licensed to serve Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a service of Temple University. The Temple University Board of Trustees holds the station's license. The broadcast tower used by the station is located in the Roxborough section of Philadelphia at (40°02′30.1″N 75°14′10.1″W / 40.041694°N 75.236139°W).
WRTI began in 1948 as an AM carrier current station. It was founded by John Roberts, professor emeritus of communications at Temple and long-time anchorman at WFIL-TV (now WPVI-TV). He helped found the School of Communications and Theater at Temple. The call letters stood for "Radio Training Institute." In 1952, the station received an FM transmitter, receiving a full license to cover the FM facility in 1953. After years of serving as a student laboratory, WRTI-AM signed-off for good in 1968. WRTI-FM switched from block programming to an all-jazz format in 1969. It added classical music in 1997 after Philadelphia's commercial classical music station, WFLN, changed formats.
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