Award-Winning Journalist and Broadcaster Alfredo Cruz New Station Manager for Trinity University’s KRTU 91.7 FM – San Antonio

Alfredo Cruz, a veteran radio broadcaster as well as an award-winning journalist, is the new station manager for KRTU 91.7 FM, Trinity University’s listener supported radio station.

Mr. Cruz has a distinguished and varied career in broadcasting. He has worked for two of the largest jazz stations in the country, WBGO-FM in Newark, N.J. and KKJZ-FM in Long Beach, Calif.

He has been a producer for the National Public Radio show Enfoque Nacionál as well as a contributor to several NPR programs including All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Latino USA.  For several years, he worked on the NPR’s Jazz Alive!, a two-hour program that broadcast recordings of live jazz performances.

Mr. Cruz also has produced and hosted jazz programming for United Airlines.  His jazz shows were heard on all airline flights as well as on Air Force One and Air Force Two.

In addition, Mr. Cruz is a two-time consecutive winner of the Guillermo Martinez-Marquez Award for excellence in radio reporting from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists.  He was also a Kiplinger Fellow, winning the fellowship in public affairs and investigative reporting at Ohio State University.

Mr. Cruz has written several encyclopedic entries on music-related topics for such journals as Hispanic American Biographies, Oxford Latino/Latina Encyclopedia, and Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World.

Through listener support, KRTU provides 17 hours of jazz programming a day beginning at 5 a.m. on the radio and on the Internet. Beginning at 10 p.m., KRTU offers a mix of new and independent music.

For more information, contact Kate Rawley, KRTU’s director of development, at 210-999-8337 or  Russell Guerrero
russell.guerrero@trinity.edu“

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