WRTI
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| City of license | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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| Broadcast area | Delaware Valley |
| Frequency | 90.1 (MHz) (Also on HD Radio) |
| First air date | 1953 (originally carrier current 1948-53) |
| Format | Classical/Jazz |
| ERP | Horizontal: 12,000 watts Vertical: 10,500 watts |
| HAAT | 308 meters |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 65190 |
| Callsign meaning | W Radio Temple Institute |
| Owner | Temple University |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | http://www.wrti.org |
WRTI is a member-supported radio service of Temple University in Philadelphia. It broadcasts on a frequency of 90.1 MHz and is repeated on several relay radio stations throughout eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware. The format of classical music and Real Jazz has made WRTI the highest-rated public radio station in Philadelphia and one of the highest-rated public radio stations in the nation.
WRTI began in 1948 as a carrier current station. It was founded by John Roberts, professor emeritus of communications at Temple and long-time anchorman at WPVI-TV. He'd helped found the School of Communications and Theater at Temple. It received a full license in 1953. After years of serving as a student laboratory, WRTI switched to an all-jazz format in 1969. It added classical music in 1997 after Philadelphia's classical music station, WFLN, changed formats.
The station features such notable hosts as Bob Perkins, Harrison Ridley Jr., Mark Quinlan, Jill Pasternak, and Jeff Duperon. WRTI has one of the country's strongest broadcast arts units. The award-winning Creatively Speaking! arts magazine show, hosted by Jim Cotter, features contributors Jason Peifer, Therese Madden, Susan Lewis and Tom Di Nardo among others. These arts writers also file arts reprts for WRTI News. News updates are done from 6-9am, 12pm, 3-5pm and again at 6pm by such anchors as Windsor Johnston, Jim Hilgen and Meridee Duddleston. Its transmitter is located in the Roxborough section of the city.
The Temple University Board of Trustees holds the FCC license of the station.
[edit] WRTI network
Frequencies in bold are full-power.
WRTI
- 90.1 FM - Philadelphia
- 97.7 FM - Reading
- 97.1 FM - Allentown
- 107.7 FM - Wilmington, Delaware
WRTL
WJAZ
- 91.7 FM - Summerdale/Harrisburg
- 90.7 FM - York
WRTY
- 91.1 FM - Jackson Township/Mount Pocono
- 94.9 FM - Wilkes-Barre
- 99.1 FM - Pottsville
- 106.1 FM - Scranton
WRTQ
- 91.3 FM - Ocean City, New Jersey
WRTX
- 91.7 FM - Dover, Delaware
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- WRTI website
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WRTI
- Radio Locator information on WRTI
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WRTI
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WRTL
- Radio Locator information on WRTL
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WRTL
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WRTQ
- Radio Locator information on WRTQ
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WRTQ
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WRTX
- Radio Locator information on WRTX
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WRTX
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WRTY
- Radio Locator information on WRTY
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WRTY
- Query the FCC's FM station database for WJAZ
- Radio Locator information on WJAZ
- Query Arbitron's FM station database for WJAZ
- History of WRTI
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