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This section of our website is dedicated to the relationship between WJTN-AM and the world famous Chautauqua Institution.
Beyond our special events coverage from the 1920’s-1960’s WJTN began a broadcasting tradition in the summer of 1974. Since then the Chautauqua Remote Broadcast legendary broadcaster, and 2010 New York State Broadcast Hall of Fame inductee, Jim Roselle, have hosted series. Roselle has interviewed hundreds of powerful speakers and continues to share the "Chautauqua Mix" with summer residents and WJTN listeners each weekday from 8:30-Noon during the Nine Week summer series each June-August.
The Chautauqua Institution is a not-for-profit, 750-acre community on Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York State, where approximately 7,500 persons are in residence on any day during a nine-week season, and a total of over 170,000 attend scheduled public events.
Chautauqua is dedicated to the exploration of the best in human values and the enrichment of life through a program that explores the important religious, social and political issues of our times; stimulates provocative, thoughtful involvement of individuals and families in creative response to such issues; and promotes excellence and creativity in the appreciation, performance and teaching of the arts.
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 The ‘Chautauqua Reporter’ has kept listeners in the Jamestown and Chautauqua Region informed about the events and programs at Chautauqua Institution for over four decades.
In its early years it was an ‘audio news service’ distributed on tape to area radio stations. That original program was produced by Le Roy Schneck, a well-known broadcaster in Warren Pa, and voiced by Warren area advertising and public relations executive Chuck Tranter. Dennis Webster of Media One began producing the program more than 20 years ago.
Expanding the original format, the ‘Chautauqua Reporter’ now includes the voices of more than a half dozen Chautauqua Institution officials. You can regularly hear Chautauqua’s President Tom Becker, Program Director Marty Merkley, Religion Director Dr. Joan Brown Campbell and others.
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 Each weekday during the Chautauqua season WJTN's Jim Roselle takes the show on the road and broadcasts live from his studio at Bestor Plaza.
Over the year's Roselle has interviewed thousands of visitors, speakers and other special guests.
When Jim Roselle was asked to list out the “important people” he has interviewed over his career he smiled and said “Ok...I can’t remember all of them…but here are the ones I do.”
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Govenor Bill Clinton of Arkansas
Senator Hillary Clinton of New York
Govenor Eliot Spitzer of New York
Senator Charles Schumer of New York
Senator Charles Goodell of New York
Roger Goodell – NFL Commissioner
Congressman John Lewis of Georgia
Andrew Young – Mayor of Atlanta, Congressman of Georgia, UIV Ambassador
Jody Powell – Pres. Carter’s Press Secretary
Hamilton Jordan – Chief of Staff for Jimmy Carter
Ralph Abernathy – Civil Rights Leader
Roger Wilkins – Former head of NAACP
Robert Taft Jr. – Former Senator of Ohio
William Proxmire – Former Senator of Wisconsin
Gaylord Nelson – Former Senator of Wisconsin
William Clinger – Former Congressman of Penn
Marin Indyk – Former Ambassador to Isreal
Geraldine Ferraro – former Vice-Pres Candidate onMondale Ticket
Helen Thomas – White House Correspondent
Liz Carpenter – Press Secretary to Lady Bird Johnson
Tim Russert – Meet The Press
John Harwood – Newsweek & Panelist on Meet The Press
John Fund – Wall Street Journal
Phil Donahue
Jane Goodall
Margaret Mead – Anthropologist
Leon Jaworski – Special Watergate Prosecutor
Gerald Terhorst – Press Secretary of R. Nixon
Ted Koppel – Nightline
Dr. Christian Bernard – Did first Heart transplant
Doris Kearns Goodwin – Regular panelist on theNews Hour w/ Jim Lehrer
Jim Lehrer – News Hour on PBS
Jack Matlock Jr. – Former Ambassador to Moscow
Terry Anderson – Hostage in Iran for 7 years
Mark Russell – Political Humorist
Lynn Shearer – Reporter for 20/20
David McCullough – Author of “Truman” and “John Adams”
David Weston – President of ABC
Sean McManus – President of CBS
Presidents of the Following Universities
Princeton
Brown University
Syracuse
Penn State
Notre Dame
Freeman Dyson – Princeton and Nobel Prize in Physics
Leon Lederman – University Chicago Professor & Nobel Prize
Amy Tan – Author of “The Joy Luck Club”
Joyce Carol Oates – Author of many National Book Awards
E.L. Doctorow – Many Book Awards
Poet Laureates
Robert Pinsky
Stanley Kunitz
Billy Collins
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Mel Allen – Announcer of Yankees
Bob Prince – Announcer for Pirates
Joe Louis – Heavy Weight Champ
Rock Graziano – Middle Weight Champ
Carmen Basilio – Middle Weight Champ
Sammy Snead – Golf Pro
Frank Deford – Sports Ilustrated Columnist
Clark Kellogg – March Madness Anaylst
ACTORS AND SINGERS
Lucille Ball
Desi Arnaz
Lucy Ball Arnaz (Daughter of Lucille Ball)
Mickey Rooney
Margaret Hamilton – Wicked Witch of OZ
Jerry Maren – Muchkin in OZ
Theresa Wright – Actress “Mrs. Lou Gehrig”
Buster Crabbe – Flash Gordan
Tony Bennett
Della Reese
Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong
Stan Kenton
Duke Ellington
The Four Freshmen
The Letterman
The Inkspots
George Shearing
Ray Evans – Song Writer
Micheal York – Shakesperian Actor
John Houseman – Producer & Writer
Red Buttons – Comedian
Henny Youngman
Jo Ann Worley – Laugh In
Donald O Connor – Actor & Dancer
Morey Amsterdam – Comedian
“Doc” Severnsin – Tonight Show
Vic Damone – Singer
Diane Carroll – Singer
Danny Simon – Comedy Writer
Natalie Merchant – Singer and Songwriter
Roger Rosenblatt – Author Columnist on the Jim Lehrer Hour
Lee Meriwether – Miss America – 1955
James McPherson – Professor of American History at Princeton
Gary Knell – President & CEO Sesame Street
Bill Bradley – Former Senator of New Jersey
Jesse Jackson – Civil Rights Leader
Micheal Collins – Astronomy of Moon Landing
Dr. Ruth – Sex Therapist
Nicholas Katzenbach – Former Attorney General for President Johnson
Lou Dobbs – ABC News
SPORTSTARS
Robin Roberts – Philly’s Pitcher
Sparky Lyle – Yankee’s Pitcher
Goose Goosage – Yankee’s Pitcher
Phil Rizzuto – Yankee Shortstop
Carl Erskine – Dodger Pitcher
Jim Brown – Cleveland Browns
Rocky Blier – Steelers
Chuck Bednirik – Eagles
Johnny Unitas – Baltimore Colts
Joe Paterno – Penn State FB Coach
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