WRTI, the Glossary

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1. 96 relations: Allentown, Pennsylvania, American Public Media, Atlantic City, New Jersey, Billy Joel, Block programming, Branford Marsalis, Broadcast relay station, Byron Janis, Call signs in North America, Carrier current, Center City, Philadelphia, Chester County, Pennsylvania, Chicago, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Christian music, City of license, Classical music, Coatesville, Pennsylvania, COVID-19, Debra Lew Harder, Delaware, Delaware Valley, Denver, Pennsylvania, Deutsche Welle, Digital subchannel, Donald Fagen, Dover, Delaware, Effective radiated power, Ephrata, Pennsylvania, Eric Whitacre, Exton, Pennsylvania, Facility ID, Federal Communications Commission, FM broadcasting, Foot (unit), Frequency, From the Top, Fundraising, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, HD Radio, Height above average terrain, Herbie Hancock, Hertz, Jackson Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania, Jazz, Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Lebanon, Pennsylvania, List of jazz radio stations in the United States, List of North American broadcast station classes, ... Expand index (46 more) »

2. 1953 establishments in Pennsylvania
3. College radio stations in Pennsylvania
4. Radio stations in Philadelphia
5. Temple University

Allentown, Pennsylvania

Allentown (Pennsylvania Dutch: Allenschteddel, Allenschtadt, or Ellsdaun) is the county seat of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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American Public Media (APM) is an American company that produces and distributes public radio programs in the United States, the second largest company of its type after NPR.

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Atlantic City, New Jersey

Atlantic City, sometimes referred to by its initials A.C., is a Jersey Shore seaside resort city in Atlantic County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Billy Joel

William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter and pianist.

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Block programming

Block programming (also known as a strand in British broadcasting) is the arrangement of programs on radio or television so that those of a particular genre, theme, or target audience are united.

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Branford Marsalis

Branford Marsalis (born August 26, 1960) is an American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader.

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Broadcast relay station

A broadcast relay station, also known as a satellite station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator (U.S.), re-broadcaster (Canada), repeater (two-way radio) or complementary station (Mexico), is a broadcast transmitter which repeats (or transponds) the signal of a radio or television station to an area not covered by the originating station.

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Byron Janis

Byron Janis (né Yanks; March 24, 1928 – March 14, 2024) was an American classical pianist.

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Call signs in North America

Call signs are frequently still used by North American broadcast stations, in addition to amateur radio and other international radio stations that continue to identify by call signs worldwide.

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Carrier current

Carrier current transmission, originally called wired wireless, employs guided low-power radio-frequency signals, which are transmitted along electrical conductors.

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Center City, Philadelphia

Center City includes the central business district and central neighborhoods of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Chester County, Pennsylvania

Chester County (Pennsylvania Dutch: Tscheschter Kaundi), colloquially referred to as Chesco, is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) is an American symphony orchestra based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Christian music

Christian music is music that has been written to express either personal or a communal belief regarding Christian life and faith.

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City of license

In U.S., Canadian, and Mexican broadcasting, a city of license or community of license is the community that a radio station or television station is officially licensed to serve by that country's broadcast regulator.

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Classical music

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

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Coatesville, Pennsylvania

Coatesville is a city in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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COVID-19

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

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Debra Lew Harder

Debra Lew Harder (born 1960 or 1961) is an American pianist and radio announcer and host of the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts.

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Delaware

Delaware is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern region of the United States.

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Delaware Valley

The Delaware Valley, sometimes referred to as Greater Philadelphia or the Philadelphia metropolitan area, is a major metropolitan region in the Northeast United States that centers around Philadelphia, the nation's sixth-most populous city, and spans parts of four U.S. states: southeastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, northern Delaware, and the northern Eastern Shore of Maryland.

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Denver, Pennsylvania

Denver is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Deutsche Welle

("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget. WRTI and Deutsche Welle are radio stations established in 1953.

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Digital subchannel

In broadcasting, digital subchannels are a method of transmitting more than one independent program stream simultaneously from the same digital radio or television station on the same radio frequency channel.

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Donald Fagen

Donald Jay Fagen (born January 10, 1948) is an American musician who was the co-founder, lead singer, co-songwriter, and keyboardist of the band Steely Dan, formed in the early 1970s with musical partner Walter Becker.

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Dover, Delaware

Dover is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Delaware.

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Effective radiated power

Effective radiated power (ERP), synonymous with equivalent radiated power, is an IEEE standardized definition of directional radio frequency (RF) power, such as that emitted by a radio transmitter.

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Ephrata, Pennsylvania

Ephrata is a borough in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Eric Whitacre

Eric Edward Whitacre (born January2, 1970) is a Grammy-winning American composer, conductor, and speaker best known for his choral music.

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Exton, Pennsylvania

Exton is a census-designated place (CDP) in West Whiteland Township in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Facility ID

The facility ID number, also called a FIN or facility identifier, is a unique integer number of one to six digits, assigned by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Media Bureau to each broadcast station in the FCC Consolidated Database System (CDBS) and Licensing and Management System (LMS) databases, among others.

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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States.

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FM broadcasting

FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting that uses frequency modulation (FM) of the radio broadcast carrier wave.

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The foot (standard symbol: ft) is a unit of length in the British imperial and United States customary systems of measurement.

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Frequency

Frequency (symbol f), most often measured in hertz (symbol: Hz), is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit of time.

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From the Top

From the Top is an independent nonprofit organization known best for its longstanding NPR radio and PBS television programs with the same name.

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Fundraising

Fundraising or fund-raising is the process of seeking and gathering voluntary financial contributions by engaging individuals, businesses, charitable foundations, or governmental agencies.

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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Harrisburg (Harrisbarrig) is the capital city of the U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the seat of Dauphin County.

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HD Radio

HD Radio (HDR) is a trademark for an in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio broadcast technology.

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Height above average terrain

Height above average terrain (HAAT), or (less popularly) effective height above average terrain (EHAAT), is the vertical position of an antenna site above the surrounding landscape.

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Herbie Hancock

Herbert Jeffrey Hancock (born April 12, 1940) is an American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer.

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Hertz

The hertz (symbol: Hz) is the unit of frequency in the International System of Units (SI), equivalent to one event (or cycle) per second.

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Jackson Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania

Jackson Township is a township in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts is a large performing arts venue at 300 South Broad Street and the corner of Spruce Street, along the stretch known as the Avenue of the Arts in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Lancaster is a city in and the county seat of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Lebanon, Pennsylvania

Lebanon (Lebnen) is a city in and the county seat of Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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List of jazz radio stations in the United States

This is a list of terrestrial, satellite and internet radio stations which identify themselves as playing jazz in any of its forms (mainstream, traditional, fusion, acid, and smooth, among others), or have substantial jazz programming, that can be heard in the United States. WRTI and list of jazz radio stations in the United States are jazz radio stations in the United States.

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List of North American broadcast station classes

This is a list of broadcast station classes applicable in much of North America under international agreements between the United States, Canada and Mexico.

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Louis Lortie

Louis Lortie, OC, CQ (born 27 April 1959) is a Canadian (Québécois) pianist.

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Marshallton, Delaware

Marshallton is an unincorporated community in Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle County, Delaware, United States.

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Marvin Hamlisch

Marvin Frederick Hamlisch (June 2, 1944 – August 6, 2012) was an American composer and conductor.

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Metre

The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI).

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts

The Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts are a regular series of weekly broadcasts on network radio of full-length opera performances.

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Michael Bublé

Michael Steven Bublé (born September 9, 1975) is a Canadian singer and songwriter.

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Michael Feinstein

Michael Jay Feinstein (born September 7, 1956) is an American singer, pianist, and music revivalist.

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Michel Legrand

Michel Jean Legrand (24 February 1932 – 26 January 2019) was a French musical composer, arranger, conductor, jazz pianist, and singer.

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Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania

Mount Pocono is a borough in Monroe County, Pennsylvania.

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Network affiliate

In the broadcasting industry (particularly in North America, and even more in the United States), a network affiliate or affiliated station is a local broadcaster, owned by a company other than the owner of the network, which carries some or all of the lineup of television programs or radio programs of a television or radio network.

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New Jersey

New Jersey is a state situated within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States.

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New York Philharmonic

The New York Philharmonic is an American symphony orchestra based in New York City.

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Non-commercial educational station

A non-commercial educational station (NCE station) is a radio station or television station that does not accept on-air advertisements (TV ads or radio ads), as defined in the United States by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and was originally intended to offer educational programming as part, or whole, of its programming.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Ocean City, New Jersey

Ocean City is a city in Cape May County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia, colloquially referred to as Philly, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the sixth-most populous city in the nation, with a population of 1,603,797 in the 2020 census.

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Philadelphia Orchestra

The Philadelphia Orchestra is an American symphony orchestra, based in Philadelphia.

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Pottsville, Pennsylvania

Pottsville is a city and the county seat of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Public Radio Exchange

The Public Radio Exchange (PRX) is a non-profit web-based platform for digital distribution, review, and licensing of radio programs.

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Public Radio International

Public Radio International (PRI) was an American public radio organization.

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Radio broadcasting

Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience.

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Radio masts and towers

Radio masts and towers are typically tall structures designed to support antennas for telecommunications and broadcasting, including television.

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Reading, Pennsylvania

Reading (Reddin) is a city in and the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Rich Gunning

Rich Gunning (born June 15, 1966) is an American voice-over artist, radio commercial producer and former traffic reporter based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Rick Braun

Rick Braun (born July 6, 1955) is an English smooth jazz trumpet, flugelhorn, trombone and keyboards player, vocalist, composer, and record producer.

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Roxborough, Philadelphia

Roxborough is a neighborhood in Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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San Francisco Symphony

The San Francisco Symphony, founded in 1911, is an American orchestra based in San Francisco, California.

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Scranton, Pennsylvania

Scranton is a city in and the county seat of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Sign-on and sign-off

A sign-on (or start-up in Commonwealth countries except Canada) is the beginning of operations for a radio or television station, generally at the start of each day.

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Summerdale, Pennsylvania

Summerdale is an unincorporated community located in East Pennsboro Township, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Temple University

Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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The Nightfly

The Nightfly is the debut solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Donald Fagen.

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Transmitter

In electronics and telecommunications, a radio transmitter or just transmitter (often abbreviated as XMTR or TX in technical documents) is an electronic device which produces radio waves with an antenna with the purpose of signal transmission up to a radio receiver.

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Wanamaker Organ

The Wanamaker Grand Court Organ, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the largest fully functioning pipe organ in the world, based on the number of playing pipes, the number of ranks and its weight.

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Watt

The watt (symbol: W) is the unit of power or radiant flux in the International System of Units (SI), equal to 1 joule per second or 1 kg⋅m2⋅s−3.

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WBEN-FM

WBEN-FM (95.7 MHz, "95.7 BEN FM") is a commercial radio station licensed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. WRTI and WBEN-FM are radio stations in Philadelphia.

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WFMT

WFMT (98.7 MHz) is a commercial FM radio station in Chicago, Illinois, featuring a classical music radio format. WRTI and WFMT are classical music radio stations in the United States.

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WPVI-TV

WPVI-TV (channel 6), branded 6 ABC, is a television station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, serving as the market's ABC outlet.

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Yolanda Kondonassis

Yolanda Kondonassis (born 1963 in Norman, Oklahoma, United States) is an American classical harpist.

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York, Pennsylvania

York is a city in, and the county seat of, York County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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1948 in radio

The year 1948 saw a number of significant events in radio broadcasting.

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1953 in radio

The year 1953 saw a number of significant happenings in radio broadcasting history. WRTI and 1953 in radio are radio stations established in 1953.

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1969 in radio

Significant events in radio broadcasting in the year 1969 included the debuts of two documentaries on rock and roll.

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See also

1953 establishments in Pennsylvania

• Boyertown Area School District
• Dad Vail Regatta
• Delaware Water Gap Toll Bridge
• Earle Theatre
• Fort Washington State Park
• Governor Mifflin Senior High School
• Hills Creek State Park
• Lackawanna Trail School District
• Louis Berger Group
• Milford–Montague Toll Bridge
• Monsignor Bonner High School
• Penn State University Park
• Pennsylvania Institute of Technology
• Pennsylvania Trolley Museum
• Portland–Columbia Toll Bridge
• Regional Enterprise Tower
• Saint Pius X High School (Lower Pottsgrove Township, Pennsylvania)
• Smeal College of Business
• State Correctional Institution – Muncy
• Stephen Girard Park
• Susquenita High School
• Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia
• Village Nightclub
• Villanova University School of Law
• WBRE-TV
• WECZ
• WEEU-TV
• WENS (TV)
• WGLV (TV)
• WHP-TV
• WHTM-TV
• WHUM-TV
• WLEV-TV
• WPGH-TV
• WPKD-TV
• WRTI
• WTAJ-TV
• WXBU
• WYOU

College radio stations in Pennsylvania

• WARC (FM)
• WCLH
• WCUC-FM
• WCUR
• WDCV-FM
• WERG
• WESS
• WEXP (La Salle University)
• WFNM
• WFSE
• WGEV
• WHSK
• WIUP-FM
• WIXQ
• WJRH
• WKCV-LP
• WKDU
• WKPS
• WKVR-FM
• WLVR-FM
• WMCE-FM
• WMUH
• WNJR (FM)
• WNTE (FM)
• WNUW-LP
• WPTS-FM
• WQSU
• WRCT
• WRKC
• WRLC (FM)
• WRTI
• WSAJ (AM)
• WSAJ-FM
• WSFX (FM)
• WSRN-FM
• WSRU
• WSYC-FM
• WUSR
• WVBU-FM
• WVMM
• WVMW-FM
• WVYC
• WWEC
• WWNW
• WXAC
• WXPN
• WXVU
• WYBF
• WZBT

Radio stations in Philadelphia

• KYW (AM)
• WBEB
• WBEN-FM
• WBMR
• WBYO
• WCUR
• WDAS (AM)
• WDAS-FM
• WDNR
• WEXP (La Salle University)
• WFIL
• WHYY-FM
• WIOQ
• WIP-FM
• WKDN (AM)
• WMGK
• WMMR
• WNAP (Pennsylvania)
• WNTP
• WNWR
• WOGL
• WOO (Philadelphia)
• WPEB
• WPHI-FM
• WPHT
• WPPZ-FM
• WRDV
• WRFF
• WRNB
• WRSD
• WRTI
• WSRN-FM
• WTDY-FM
• WTEL (AM)
• WUMR (FM)
• WUSL
• WWDB
• WWLU
• WXPN
• WXTU
• WXVU
• WYBF
• WZZE

Temple University

• 2023 Temple University strike
• Alfred E. Burk House
• American Journal of Legal History
• Campus of Temple University
• Cecil B. Moore, Philadelphia
• Eugene Rotberg
• Fox Chase Cancer Center
• Fox School of Business and Management
• Insect Trust Gazette
• Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program
• Jason Hyland
• Kandis Leslie Abdul-Aziz
• Maurice H. Kornberg School of Dentistry
• Monument Cemetery
• New School of Music, Philadelphia
• Offering: Live at Temple University
• Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention
• Temple International and Comparative Law Journal
• Temple Law Review
• Temple Owls
• Temple University
• Temple University Ambler
• Temple University Beasley School of Law
• Temple University College of Science and Technology
• Temple University Diamond Marching Band
• Temple University Graduate Students Association
• Temple University Hospital
• Temple University Press
• Temple University Rome
• Temple University School of Medicine
• Temple University station
• Temple University, Japan Campus
• The Jungle (1967 film)
• The Temple News
• Tyler School of Art and Architecture
• WRTI

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRTI

Also known as W214AC, W214AL, W221DG, W235AA, W246AA, W249AT, W256AB, W259BU, W291AP, W292ET, W299BH, WJAZ, WRTJ, WRTL, WRTQ, WRTX, WRTX (FM), WRTY.

, Louis Lortie, Marshallton, Delaware, Marvin Hamlisch, Metre, Metropolitan Opera, Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts, Michael Bublé, Michael Feinstein, Michel Legrand, Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, Network affiliate, New Jersey, New York Philharmonic, Non-commercial educational station, NPR, Ocean City, New Jersey, Opera, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Orchestra, Pottsville, Pennsylvania, Public Radio Exchange, Public Radio International, Radio broadcasting, Radio masts and towers, Reading, Pennsylvania, Rich Gunning, Rick Braun, Roxborough, Philadelphia, San Francisco Symphony, Scranton, Pennsylvania, Sign-on and sign-off, Summerdale, Pennsylvania, Temple University, The Nightfly, Transmitter, Wanamaker Organ, Watt, WBEN-FM, WFMT, WPVI-TV, Yolanda Kondonassis, York, Pennsylvania, 1948 in radio, 1953 in radio, 1969 in radio.