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WRTI-FM To Receive 2004 Mellon Jazz Community Award
- Presentation To Coincide With Open House for New Studios on Temple University
Campus -
PHILADELPHIA, April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- In recognition of a half-century of
presenting the best in local and national jazz programming, providing quality
news coverage, recognizing cultural organizations and performing community
service, WRTI-FM has been named the recipient of the 2004 Mellon Jazz Community
Award. The award recognizes local venues, individuals, organizations, clubs,
musicians, programs and institutions for their significant contributions to
jazz in the southeastern Pennsylvania area. The two previous awardees were
Anthony H. "Tony" Williams, founder of the Mount Airy Cultural Center, in 2003
and Bob Perkins, long-time jazz broadcaster (currently with WRTI) and
journalist, in 2002.
"While this region certainly has a wealth of talented individuals and
organizations that have helped build and strengthen our ties to jazz, perhaps
no single organization has done as much to ensure that Philadelphia's tradition
of jazz excellence gets passed along to future generations as WRTI- FM," said
Paul Kochis, chairman of Mellon Financial Corporation's Mid-Atlantic region.
"This year's award recognizes WRTI not just for its outstanding jazz
programming, but also for its highly commendable educational component, which
has made an important contribution to the community by researching,
acknowledging and promoting the accomplishments of jazz musicians, especially
Philadelphia-born musicians and others who call this area home."
The award, which takes the form of an original glass sculpture by noted
Pennsylvania glass artist Kathleen Mulcahy, will be presented to Dave Conant,
WRTI-FM executive director, on Wednesday, April 28 at 2 p.m. in the station's
new studios on the third floor of Temple University's new Entertainment and
Community Education Center. The new building on the corner of Cecil B. Moore
Avenue and 15th Street, once one of the centers of the Philadelphia jazz scene,
has tripled the size of the station. The facility includes a new
performance/recording studio, an extensive jazz library and work stations for
students involved in production and programming.
The station takes its RTI call letters from Radio Training Institute and first
broadcast in the mid-1940s over the power lines throughout Temple's campus.
WRTI became an FM-licensed radio station in 1953, reaching out to the nearby
community with limited power, and adopted an all-jazz format in 1968. When
Philadelphia's only full-time classical music station, WFLN-FM, switched
formats in 1997, WRTI-FM added the classics just one week later. Since these
two musical art forms joined forces, Temple University Public Radio has seen
its ratings and audience share rise dramatically. With classical music during
the day and jazz in the evening and through the night, the station has become
one of the top-rated public radio stations in the country by reaching a weekly
audience of more than 300,000 listeners. Its signal can be picked up from
northeastern Pennsylvania to Delaware, from Harrisburg to Cape May, N.J., and
around the world on the Internet ( http://www.wrti.org/ ).
As part of Mellon Financial Corporation's year-round celebration of jazz
excellence in the Philadelphia area for the 19th year, Mellon Jazz is
sponsoring an outstanding lineup of jazz attractions throughout the rest of
2004 and into 2005. In addition to serving as the title sponsor for the
Villanova University Jazz Festival, Mellon Jazz also has an important
relationship with the Kimmel Center, where the recently-announced 2004-2005
season features 14 outstanding performances as part of "Kimmel Center presents
Mellon Jazz" series. Mellon also conducts a Mellon Jazz program in the
Pittsburgh area. More information on Mellon Jazz activities is available by
clicking on the Mellon Jazz link at http://www.mellon.com/ .
Mellon Financial Corporation is a global financial services company.
Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Mellon is one of the world's leading providers of
financial services for institutions, corporations and high net worth
individuals, providing institutional asset management, mutual funds, private
wealth management, asset servicing, human resources and investor solutions, and
treasury services. Mellon has approximately $3.6 trillion in assets under
management, administration or custody, including more than $675 billion under
management. Its asset management companies include The Dreyfus Corporation and
U.K.-based Newton Investment Management Limited. News and other information
about Mellon is available at http://www.mellon.com/ .
DATASOURCE: Mellon Financial Corporation
CONTACT: Ron Gruendl, Corporate Affairs of Mellon Financial Corporation,
+1-412-234-7157, or
Web site: http://www.mellon.com/
http://www.wrti.org/