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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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WSCB
As a long time listener to WSCB, I want you to know that my heart goes out to all the students, DJ’S and to the community. It is a disgrace what Ideastream and CSU has done not only to the students but also to the community. This overtaking of the station will also hurt many listeners worldwide and your local businesses. I would like to see this station returned back to the students the listeners and the community. We can do this.
Rebecca Bergan
The recent takeover of Cleveland State University's radio station WCSB-FM by Ideastream Media
As a CSU alum (class of 1996), former WCSB station member DJ (from 1994-1999) and longtime listener, I have to say that it is a disgrace that Cleveland State University no longer has a student-run radio station. WCSB had served an extremely diverse community for nearly 50 years. The contributions the station made to the Northeast Ohio music scene are enormous and have gone far beyond anything the new format will be able to touch. WCSB was a lifeline to the ethnic music communities, punk & rock underground music scenes, reggae, folk, hip-hop and metal scenes, among many others...including jazz. (There were already several jazz programs being broadcast on WCSB before the format change). This is a total slap in the face to the thousands of dedicated listeners in N.E. Ohio, not to mention the staff (past and present) who gave countless hours of their time (for free!) to make WCSB what it was. Shame on Ideastream Media and CSU for orchestrating this hostile take over - done with zero advance notice, and with the campus police escorting the staff out of the building like they were criminals. Bring back the programmers and previous student-run format. WCSB, before the October 3rd, 2025 takeover, was an important asset to this region. It served ALL the listeners in it's signal range (and beyond via Internet streaming), not just fans of non-stop jazz streaming.
Thomas A. Miller
WCSB Takeover by Ideastream
I'm writing in support of the resolution regarding WCSB in front of City Council on 21 October 2025. I write as a graduate of CSU, a 20-year alumnus of WCSB, and a lifelong Clevelander. It strains, no, destroys credibility that neither CSU nor Ideastream had the slightest notion just how vital and beloved WCSB was to Cleveland and its cultural identity. It staggers me to think that the other possibility is that they did know, but didn't care. Please help to right this wrong.
Steve Traina
WCSB radio station 89.3 FM
WCSB has been a great, diverse and wonderful FM radio voice in Cleveland for nearly 50 years. It was operated by student and community volunteers, providing alternative music in multiple genres. The decision by CSU to hand it over to Ideastream is the WRONG decision. I support restoring 89.3 FM to what it was before October 3rd, 2025 and letting the devoted stewards of this radio station carry on!
Walter Plecha
The takeover of WCSB-FM
The recent takeover of WCSB-FM by Ideastream is shameful. The student run station was given no notice, and were escorted out by police within a few minutes of the decision being made. WCSB was an extremely important community resource for many underserved groups in the listening area, and they are now silenced in favor of streamed music from an out of town organization. As a regular listener since 1983, and also someone who donated to the station on a fairly regular basis via their annual Radio-thons, I find it tragic that an extremely diverse and important community voice was silenced through unclear and somewhat shady circumstances, to be replaced with a bland, monochrome and unnecessary source of streamed music from a non local source. This is a horrible decision by those involved with Cleveland State University and Ideastream, and if there is any way to look into getting the station back to it's student programmers, it would be nothing but a just and worthwhile thing to do, and would allow the station to serve the local community and listening audience with the important information and diverse music it once had, in favor of the bland and monotonous background music that it was switched over to. Thank you for any consideration on this matter. With kindest regards.
Michael Corrice
Ideastream WCSB 89.3
We supported and donated because of the unique programming WCSB provided. This was the best radio station in Cleveland when the student programming was in place. This sale and the way it was handled is unacceptable. We now have a massive hole in Cleveland radio.
Steve D
WCSB Takeover
Even though I live in one of the adjacent neighborhoods to Cleveland, the signal of WCSB reaches me clearly. I invite all council members regardless of their political affiliation to support the WCSB resolution. Let us all hold responsible leaders of public institution that are consciously alienating community from it's own media space.
Stanislav Zabic
WCSB Takeover by Ideastream
Ideastream's greedy takeover (it was indeed a takeover) of WCBS, removing community programming in favor of bland jazz, was a terrible decision that was executed cruelly and shamefully by both Ideastream and CSU. The new programming does nothing to benefit, reflect, or bolster our Cleveland community, least of all Cleveland's music community. We demand that programming be given back to the students and community members who have worked to hard to give WCSB the legacy that Ideastream is so eager to carelessly destroy.
Alexandria Marshall
WCSB 89.3 FM Collage Radio
Cleveland State university has helped college students for maybe over 50 years of college radio. They have helped students with the radio station to become radio announcers. It’s a radio station with versatility and alternative listening, which has helped the community at large. We are disappointed as a community to hear that the radio station no longer exist. I feel they did not give the opportunity to the members of the Station and the students any memorandum about what they were going to do it would be nice if they will continue the station in helping students develop a radio career. Thank you.
Juan Carrion
WCSB
Please consider bringing back the students’ WCSB. I will miss it so much and Cleveland will be less cool without it. No one asked for jazz. You can still do your internship program without playing jazz 24/7. Literally no one asked for that.
Meghan Wingenfeld