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Making a Public Comment

Council welcomes public comment before regular council meetings. Fill out the online form below for your chance to make a public comment at the next regular Monday Council meeting.  Please read the revised rules and procedures. 

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WCSB
XCSB was a tremendous asset to the Cleveland area, a marvel of community built around arts programming. The students and volunteers raised funds to purchase music, recorded PSAs, promos, acquired new music, and hosted events. Best of all, they dedicated time to curating radio shows that exposed listeners to new and interesting music, traced musical influences, promoted new artists and local shows, and generally brought people together around these shared interests. THAT’S COMMUNITY! Nothing can replace it, not podcasts, not streaming. Please restore this authentic, beloved Cleveland treasure.
Emmie Hutchison
WCSB
At the very least, please consider helping the students regain access to the physical station so they can continue recording and broadcasting programs online. Many community members, alumni, and students have long supported Cleveland’s live music scene by announcing shows that might otherwise go unheard. Our city’s venues, musicians, and concertgoers depend on that connection — it’s an essential part of keeping Cleveland’s music culture + music economy alive. I'm not sure what City Council can actually do, other than put pressure on CSU to restore access. Please help keep the spirit of community radio alive!
Leia Hohenfeld
WCSB Hostile Takeover
WCSB is known and loved far beyond the few blocks of the Cleveland State campus proper as one of the greatest campus radio stations in the country. Cleveland State's incredibly hamfisted and poorly thought out decision to shutter the station came as a gut punch, not only to those of us who volunteered countless hours creating programming, but to the listeners who tuned in weekly to their favorite shows. Additionally, I learned skills from my time there that continue to serve me to this day; I cannot say the same for any of the broadcasting classes I took at CSU. If there is any possibility of reversing course on this horrendous decision, do what is right - let Ideastream keep their bland jazz streaming online and bring back one of the greatest things Cleveland - and Cleveland State - had to offer.
Sade Linn
WCSB
I strongly urge Cleveland City Council to do what it can to return Cleveland State University students and community programmers to the airwaves on WCSB 89.3FM. Greater Cleveland is suffering an insurmountable loss at the hands of Laura Bloomberg and Kevin Martin. The decision to automate programming on the campus radio signal will have a measurable impact on already marginalized communities across our city, in addition to undue harm to arts & culture programming and, of course, the economics surrounding it. Our namesake public university and local public media are meant to operate in the interest of the greater good of the community in which they serve, and what Ideastream and CSU have done with WCSB-FM, a volunteer-run public service, is reprehensible.
Lindsey Bryan
WCSB 89.3 Shutdown by CSU/Ideastream
I'm a long time listener (and donor) to WCSB Cleveland 89.3

WCSB was a unique and incredibly valuable asset to our community as a person living in Cleveland. The diversity of programming, interesting content, exposure to obscure or off the beaten path music, and local focus made it an absolutely invaluable hallmark of our art scene as a city.

CSU's choice and ideastreams complicity in shuttering this incredible station shows an absolute disregard for the art communities of the world and of the critical independent voice of our city.

It should be considered priority one by Cleveland to restore this radio station so we can continue to have crucial access to local music, independent music, ideas of our community, and all the benefits that this station brought for nearly 50 years. We also deserve to have universities in our city that do not turn their backs on independent art and student broadcasting.
Nathan Hestley
WCSB Shutdown
WCSB is one of the bright stars of the creative spirit of Cleveland. Growing up here it was always one of my sources of new music and good vibes! One of the things that makes Cleveland so good is its artists and community led radio is an anchor for creative folks of all kinds. Bring it back!
Adair S
The abrupt closure of WCSB
I’m writing in support of reinstating WCSB at 89.3 in place of JazzNEO. WCSB was highly important to many Clevelanders. We are a population of music lovers, and stations like WCSB helped spread knowledge of unpopular music through the city. The station helped expand our city’s musical horizons as well as fostered an environment for art to really thrive. Popular radio plays the same 4 songs over and over and over. WCSB highlighted strange and funky music that otherwise would never make the airwaves. They even had a proper jazz hour, where they would play abstract jazz as opposed to mainstream jazz standards like what the station now exclusively plays. We’ve really significantly hurt whatever semblance of culture we have left in this city by erasing WCSB and that decision needs to be reverted yesterday.
Zack Asher
Cleveland State University's WCSB being shut down
I am from Cleveland Heights, and educated in North East Ohio (College at the Cleveland Institute). I've listened to Cleveland State's WCSB for over twenty years, even as I relocated to out of the state. There is nothing like WCSB, in it's eclectic program schedule of rare music and cultural programs. Furthermore, it has been a gravitational center for an artistic, passionate, devoted, diverse community in Cleveland. I am requesting that WCSB be reinstated for the good of the Greater Cleveland community.
Michael McDermott
WCSB Takeover
I urge Cleveland City Council to take action and restore Cleveland State University students and community programmers to WCSB 89.3FM. The decision by Laura Bloomberg and Kevin Martin to automate programming is a devastating loss for Greater Cleveland, particularly impacting marginalized communities, arts and culture, and the local economy. CSU and Ideastream are public institutions meant to serve the community, and their treatment of WCSB-FM, a volunteer-driven public service, is devastating.

Alex Madej
The removal of student run WCSB
I stand with my friends and community members, disappointed in the decisions made from the CSU administration. The student run radio station was invaluable to the cultural fabric of this city and it was pawned off for a quick buck and job positions on the board of ideastream
The radio station should be brought back to its former glory.
Andrew DeCarlo