WRT1-FM,Philadelphia
sibree/wilkes
WRT1-FM,Philadelphia, or anybody connected with that station?
Thanks
Billy Wilkes
steve g
Sound) as a newscaster in the mid seventies.
I don't remember the address but try WRTI c/o Temple
University School of Radio Television and Film, Broad and
Montgomery sts, Philadelphia, PA.
That should work
Good luck and thanks for the memories.
Steve
GRKPHL
>WRT1-FM,Philadelphia, or anybody connected with that station?
Get in touch with WRTI (90.1FM, in Phila with a wide network of other
affiliates across PA) at: JazzFM, Temple University, Annenberg
Hall(011-00), Philadelphia,PA, 19122, or call 1-800-245-TPRN.
At the moment there the best the areas got.
Rick Kahley
GRK...@aol.com
Philadelphia PA
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Frederick M. Veith
I may be betraying my allegiances here, but I much prefer WPRB 103.3 FM
from Princeton University. They only have jazz programming midday on
weekdays, but I much prefer their perspectiveŠ
My two cents.
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The phone number (for WRTI's studio) is (215) 204-8900, but I couldn't
disagree with Matt more about the station. From a musical standpoint, I
think it's the best source of jazz music (on the radio) that I've heard,
comparing it to similar stations in a couple of other big cities. As
far as the remainder of the station's broadcasting is concerned, don't
forget that it's Temple University's local station, with a remarkably
wide broadcast area. In that capacity, its need to play Temple sporting
activities should be obvious. Also, a Temple University station
devoting a substantial amount of time to Black history, activities, etc.
is entirely justified (in my opinion).
Although it would be nice to have a station in Philadelphia that does
nothing but play jazz 24 hours a day, 7 day a week would be ideal,
such a station will probably never exist, given the relatively small
share of the music market that jazz maintains. Given that, I'm happy to
have WRTI available.
Rick
Matthew Snyder
>The phone number (for WRTI's studio) is (215) 204-8900, but I couldn't
>disagree with Matt more about the station. From a musical standpoint, I
>think it's the best source of jazz music (on the radio) that I've heard,
>comparing it to similar stations in a couple of other big cities.
You haven't listened to enough jazz radio stations. Specifically, you
haven't listened to a station that, unlike WRTI:
1) Has DJ's who know the difference between soprano, alto, and tenor saxes.
2) Manages to not sound like a commercial "smooth" jazz station for hours
at a time.
3) Plays Ellington, Lester Young, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus or many
other extremely important jazz musicians more than once a month, or at
times other than 3am.
3) Has DJ's who know to announce for each tune the title, composer, leader,
all personnel and instrumentation, album title, label and date of
recording.
And by the way, just having Harrison Ridley Jr, Joe Pyle, and the guy who
does the Library of jazz (his name escapes me) on the weekends doesn't
make up for the rest of the week's nincompoops behind the microphones.
>As
>far as the remainder of the station's broadcasting is concerned, don't
>forget that it's Temple University's local station, with a remarkably
>wide broadcast area. In that capacity, its need to play Temple sporting
>activities should be obvious.
The best jazz staion on planet Earth, WKCR at Columbia University in NYC,
fulfills these functions too, and still puts WRTI to such shame that it's
laughable.
> Also, a Temple University station
>devoting a substantial amount of time to Black history, activities, etc.
>is entirely justified (in my opinion).
That the Temple station should spend such large amounts of time on Black
history and activities and yet insult the art of jazz and the
intelligence of its fans every day is simply obscene.
>nothing but play jazz 24 hours a day, 7 day a week would be ideal,
>such a station will probably never exist, given the relatively small
>share of the music market that jazz maintains. Given that, I'm happy to
>have WRTI available.
Oh sure, it's better than nothing. But there's a difference between
surviving on bread and water and on the true feast that could really be
broadcast by knowledgeable and talented people. But WRTI obviously isn't
interested in this.
Matt Snyder "I'm all in favor of getting grants for jazz
hsn...@crab.rutgers.edu musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch."
- Pepper Adams
Frank Coffman
they were students, and don't let it bother me.
Other than that, I think it's a great station. I think the smooth
jazz comments are off the mark, and that they play a good variety
of new & old jazz.
I've never heard the Columbia station, so I can't compare them. My
favorite station: channel 8 on Music choice (digital cable radio).
Excellent choice of music and no DJs at all.
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Dwight Miller
and the station has to do it's best to attract and cater periodically
to the diversity in the listening area. There may come a day when
different programming can go to different areas but thats down the
road.
Dwight Miller
Mike Madden
Given the other jazz station in Philly, whose call letters escape me at
the moment, which specializes in Kenny G.-esque crap, I'm happy it's
there.
I would agree that the DJs don't give enough information on each track,
and that they don't play enough music by some truly important artists.
The station I listen to at home (as opposed to at school) is WDCU-FM,
90.1 in Washington, DC, which is an outstanding station, IMHO. DCU beats
RTI any time, but at least Philly has a decent straight-ahead jazz station...
Mike
Eric D. Jackson
>Mike
I may be wrong about this but I think last year WRTI was given an award for
it's programming from Gavin. Gavin is an industry trade paper.
Eric
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Matthew Snyder
>I may be wrong about this but I think last year WRTI was given an award for
>it's programming from Gavin. Gavin is an industry trade paper.
Yes, you are correct. The only conclusion one can come to is that the
folks at Gavin are even less knowledgable about the music than the fools
at WRTI.
Concerning my comment about WRTI playing too much fuzak, listen to the
station on the weekends during the "Jazz Journeys" show and you'll wonder
whether you got 106 FM by accident. Such despicable programming rears its
ugly butt entirely too much during the week as well. The question begs
to be stated: how much corporate funding is the station depending on?
Frank Coffman
: Hows the reception in AC?
The reception for 90.1 (WRTI) fades a bit as you approach the shore,
but about a year ago they set up a satellite station in Ocean City NJ,
which is about 10 miles south of Atlantic City. I think the freq is
91.3. Anyway, between the 2 stations they have south jersey covered
pretty well.
Actually, they have a mosaic of satellite stations, including OC, Allentown,
Harrisburg, & somewhere in Delaware, so WRTI comes banging in throught
a large radius of Philadelphia.
While we're on the subject of WRTI & Atlantic City, I'll also point out
that WRTI has begun to co-sponser jazz concerts at a local state college.
This is making a positive impact in the quality of jazz in the area (which
up to now has been practically nil). As a matter of fact, Phil Woods is
performing this weekend.
Scott H. Silverman
(Matthew Snyder) wrote:
I feel a great deal of ambivalence about RTI. The "golden era" to me
coincided with the station being dominated by a bunch of non-Templeites,
or at least not-currently-enrolled Templeites, e.g., Bart Tatum, Daryl
Hall, Richard Nichols, Ludgwig van Trikt, Craig Baylor, Skip Jackson,
Ignatios Alexander. OTOH, that was also the era when certain very bad
non-Templeite deejays apparently cultivated their own "cults of
personalities." One guy, for example, had had a theme song written for
him.
> 1) Has DJ's who know the difference between soprano, alto, and tenor saxes.
Yeah, that bugs me. I can't always tell myself, but sometimes they are
wildly off. DJs ought to be able to dig deeper into liner notes so that
they can say that on that particular tune Marty Ehrlich -- ha, like RTI
EVER plays Ehrlich except between midnight and 2AM Sunday morning!!! -- is
playing alto sax, not flute!!
>
> 2) Manages to not sound like a commercial "smooth" jazz station for hours
> at a time.
Agreed. Sponsors are great, but RTI runs full-scale ads, in 5-minute
concentrations, between virtually every cut.
>
> 3) Plays Ellington, Lester Young, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus or many
> other extremely important jazz musicians more than once a month, or at
> times other than 3am.
Ellington is in the rotation more than that, but it's always a late-period
"Take The A-Train," or so it seems.
>
> 3) Has DJ's who know to announce for each tune the title, composer, leader,
> all personnel and instrumentation, album title, label and date of
> recording.
>
Kim Berry told me time does not permit. Still, as I told her, the sidemen
are often most important. Once she played a tune by Trane. It was clear to
me that it was Trane, Prestige vintage, even though I did not own the
recording. Trane was Trane. But what made the tune impressive was the bari
solo. I had to call the station to find out what I suspected, that it was
Pepper Adams, but still, while all taste is subjective, the DJ ought to
have ears enough to know that that solo had to be highlighted by at least
naming the soloist.
> And by the way, just having Harrison Ridley Jr, Joe Pyle, and the guy who
> does the Library of jazz (his name escapes me) on the weekends doesn't
> make up for the rest of the week's nincompoops behind the microphones.
Greg Ross. And the other brightspot is van Trikt, but I'm sorry, I work
hard and have two young kids and I'm not staying up to 2AM routinely on
Sat. morning so I can hear the only edgy music that station ever plays.
Used to be Nichols had a Sunday AFTERNOON show that featured new music
that was _not_ exclusively Young Lion.
>
> That the Temple station should spend such large amounts of time on Black
> history and activities and yet insult the art of jazz and the
> intelligence of its fans every day is simply obscene.
That's a bit too far, Matt, but I admit to having had the same passing thought.
> Oh sure, it's better than nothing. But there's a difference between
> surviving on bread and water and on the true feast that could really be
> broadcast by knowledgeable and talented people. But WRTI obviously isn't
> interested in this.
Yet I can see that Temple, with its emphasis on the communications major,
does want to give its students meaningful experience. But the on-air
talent needs to do better and it really, really needs to develop a broader
approach to programming. In the last five years I have heard Ornette once
during the day. I long for guys like Nichols and Baylor who actually
played Blakey and Bley in the same hour.
Scott
ssil...@brynmawr.edu
TornCot
Hate to disagree with you, but I do. I'm not complaining about Temple's
need to broadcast the school's sporting events- that's a fact of life, but
I find that the djs are pretty uninformed and I think they concentrate too
much on new releases. On RTI I have heard Art Taylor referred to as a
trumpet player, Ben Webster referred to as a living, active artist and
countless mispronounciations. They also play a lot of Najee sounding
tunes. I'll be listening to a good Kenny Dorham side and all of a sudden
they play some Lee Ritenour crap. The problem is that they try to be all
things to all people- Philadelphia already has a smooth jazz station, why
don't they leave that crap to them. And I really do think that the djs
should be rquired to pass some kind of jazz history test. I'll stick to
my cds.
Cheers,
Dave Krugman
TIAC CUSTOMER
>things to all people- Philadelphia already has a smooth jazz station, why
>don't they leave that crap to them. And I really do think that the djs
>should be rquired to pass some kind of jazz history test.
Yes! That's not a bad idea at all. I know Temple offers a jazz history class. The djs do make hilarious mistakes yet they try so =
hard to sound like they're knowledgable.