Effective October 1st WRTI is making changes to our programming schedule and lineup.
Jazz Night in America (Sundays 8pm), From the Top (Saturdays 7am, Mondays 9pm HD2) and NPR Newscasts will no longer air on WRTI. WRTI remains a strong content partner and NPR Network member station with a dedicated focus on music. Additionally, The Standard (Sundays 9pm-midnight) has been removed from the lineup.
Saturday mornings will include an additional hour of Performance Today Weekend, including the much-loved listener favorite Piano Puzzler. Monday nights at 9pm on HD2, we’ll explore the full range of the organ on Pipedreams with longtime host Michael Barone.
Jazz listeners will now enjoy Sunday Rotation from 8pm to midnight on Sundays. It will feature WRTI’s talented jazz hosts Nicole Sweeney, Julian Booker and our editorial team presenting specially curated playlists, exclusive live performances, and select in-studio recordings. Sunday Rotation is also the space WRTI will broadcast expanded radio editions of our original podcast, The Late Set, including conversations with great artists.
We’re also expanding Evening Jazz weeknights to 10pm and adding an hour to Late Evening Jazz. WRTI is making significant progress toward localizing our jazz service full-time during the day on HD2 and the all-jazz stream, which currently airs syndicated programming during daytime hours. We hope to share our progress with you early next year.
These programming decisions allow WRTI to maximize the deployment of limited resources for current service and future innovations. We are leaner, but we remain focused on delivering impactful and relevant programming with our community while being responsible stewards of support we receive from members.
For more information, see the updated classical and jazz schedules at WRTI.org.
You can also contact us with classical music comments or questions here. Jazz feedback and questions can be submitted here.