WRTI
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| City | WRTI: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Broadcast area | Delaware Valley |
| Slogan | Your Classical and Jazz Station |
| Frequency | See table below |
| Translator(s) | See tables below |
| First air date | 1953 (originally carrier current 1948-53) |
| Format | Classical/Jazz |
| Language(s) | English |
| Callsign meaning | WRTI: Radio Training Institute |
| Owner | Temple University |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | www |
WRTI (90.1 FM) is a public radio station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a service of Temple University.
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'd 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.
WRTI is a music-intensive public radio service, broadcasting classical music during the day (6 am – 6 pm), and jazz at night (6 pm – 6 am).
The station features hosts Dave Conant, Jack Moore, Jill Pasternak, Gregg Whiteside, Bob Perkins, Bob Craig, Maureen Malloy, Mark Quinlan, Jeff Duperon, Zivit Shlank, Courtney Blue Tim Johnstone and Frank McCloy. WRTI also has special programs on Friday and Saturday evenings. Each Friday 10 pm – 2 am there's "The Bridge," with host J. Michael Harrison. This program explores the merging platforms of popular music and jazz. Saturday from 9 pm – 12 am "El Viaje" airs, hosted by David Ortiz, focusing on Latin Jazz and Salsa.
WRTI also presents arts and culture programming. The multi-award winning CrossOver (Saturday 1130 am WRTI/Friday 7 pm WRTI-HD2), created by renowned jazz historian, Dr. Jack V. Buerkle, in conjunction with Jill Pasternak, is now hosted by Jill Pasternak. Crossover explores music as "the international language." The show, which presents music and conversation with some of the world's greatest artists and personalities, focuses not only on classical and jazz, but also music in the periphery of those two art forms. Featured have been Michel Legrand, Rick Braun, Byron Janis, Billy Joel, Eric Whitacre, Marvin Hamlisch, Michael Feinstein, Louis Lortie, Herbie Hancock, Yolanda Kondonassis, Branford Marsalis and many more.
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