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I once believed that there was a part of society that held the rights of voices dear.
Ideastream perpetuating this and for no good reason makes me realize everything and everyone must be broken.
My thoughts center around two things that I am certain were not in consideration upon making this decision. The charitable donations each year to THE STATION . Money donated for continuation of the station and programs that people listening all over the world added to over the years. What must they be thinking right now?
Secondly, so many listeners no longer with us have donated music collections to the station, now sitting empty and unused. Is that forever now, as I'm sure JAZZ NEO has no use for them? What would it take to organize the programming separately so we can take a step forward rather than ten steps backwards as this has become a multi-faceted argument about much more than Cleveland and music.
This year, The Voice of America was silenced. Three other college radio stations were shut down this year (KTRU, KSVR, WSC), plus university student newspapers have, incredibly, been ordered "not to report news." I would have thought that Cleveland's public university was above that. It still has the chance to be. Please return student control to WCSB.
I was incredibly eager to learn at WCSB and it quickly became what I wanted to with my life. Then it was completely stripped away from me after just 2 weeks. This once in a lifetime opportunity was the hobby and livelihood of many people that were here long before me. I was only here for only a couple of weeks and already felt like I was about to be apart of a group that I'd be able to call family. Laura Bloomberg sold us out for a resume detail and a bunch of ad shout-outs over the radio for Cleveland State. We are more than that. They were worth more than that. Laura claims she opened opportunity by stripping away programming from every corner of the music space and replacing it with jazz. Smooth jazz to be precise; a genre so disconnected and despised by the rest of the jazz world for being completely uninspired and going against the original purpose of jazz. She took away an entire community on National College Radio Day. And she took it away right before the 50th anniversary of WCSB. Nobody knew of this; this was all done behind our backs. Nobody at the station was ever told about this and this was in the works for months, maybe even longer. This was devastating to me as I wanted to pursue music in some form in my lifetime. I was given this amazing path in life. It is gone now. But, there is still hope. Please help us bring back 50 years of history and give the station back. Thank you for your time and please give Cleveland back our station.
So why take that legacy away from today’s students and the generations to come? CSU’s radio program is more than a class or a club — it’s a creative outlet, a training ground, and a vital part of Cleveland’s cultural story. Cutting programs like this at our downtown university doesn’t strengthen the institution — it weakens it. Fewer opportunities mean fewer students, less community connection, and a diminished reputation.
Cleveland State should be investing in what makes it distinctive — not dismantling it.
What CSU and IdeaStream did was simply unbelievable. They took the station away in the middle of a semester with no warning. DJs with decade old audiences couldn’t say goodbye or make arrangements to move their shows elsewhere. Student DJs being led out of the studio with a police escort? Simply unacceptable.
Whatever can be done to get WCSB back in the hands of the students and community that built it for nearly 50 years should be done. I hope city council is successful in taking action.