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Takeover of WCSB
I have witnessed an incredible force of nature, in observing and supporting the student run radio station for over 15 years. I can’t imagine it being gone. This entire act of greed and insensitivity is heartbreaking and horrific, AND it has entirely shifted my perspective on Ideastream, its people and goals. CSU has betrayed its students and the community.

The station needs to be returned to those that have given so much, freely, and with an immense commitment to our city.

I stand with the students!
DO THE RIGHT THING!!!
Bonita Hudson
WCSB 89.3's Hostile Takeover by Ideastream Ideastream
Please take any action available to save this beloved, relevant, and diverse resource. Our city is being deprived,not enriched by this gross injustice.
Jason Parks
The takeover of WCSB
I think it is an absolutely travesty that the Cleveland State radio station was taken over by Ideastream. It's ironic that the name is 'Idea' -stream ...but their only idea seems to be to shut down one of the oldest forms of open idea sharing and community building - the local radio station. I assume that CSU found it much more financially rewarding to get paid by Ideastream to take it over - but as I think State and local education should be FOR THE PUBLIC, I also think that a radio station with 50 years of history and loyal listeners deserves better than this. By the way, I should note that I am a Jazz fan. This isn't about the type of music for me ...it's about what it means for our community.
John Fischer
CSU transfer of wcsb to Ideastream
wcsb needs to be returned to campus-based broadcasting of alternative programming. The police-facilitated hostile Ideastream/ CSU-brokered takeover of wcsb should be an invalid move at public educational institutions. Our schools should be all about the students, without which there'd be no budget. Hostile takeovers of any campus entity accompanied by their necessary partner in crime, the nondisclosure agreement (CSU & Ideastream had one in the wcsb hand-off) should be statutarily prohibited at public schools.

The improperly authorized hand-off of wcsb has impoverished culture in world rock n roll capitol Cleveland, OH. wcsb was one of the very few radio stations in town remaining true to Cleveland's rock n roll roots. Rock n roll in all its forms from r&b to industrial is music of the people. wcsb presented it as such, giving the worthier non-capitalized, non-commercial bands airings.

Students, former students and selected community members were passionate about their volunteer programming on wcsb. And the radio station generated many on-campus jobs, as well as providing career-useful training.

The CSU president indicated in a recent interview that the new Ideastream/ CSU partnership gives her a seat on Ideastram's board. Well, Ideastream was already looking out for students; it was available for internships. CSU can now further guide Ideastream, something with nebulous reward to a university as a whole that should be focused on higher education as a whole. The CSU president mentioned Ideastream in the wcsb hand-off promised on-air spots promoting CSU. As Cleveland's only large public university, CSU does not have an exposure problem. As a non-prof entity, it is allowed additional free public service exposure at many, many local media outlets.

The improper giveaway of Cleveland cultural stalwart wcsb is one of the biggest disgraces in Cleveland history.
Laura Peskin
WCSB
I am shocked and angered by the takeover of WCSB airwaves by Ideastream. WCSB has been a cultural icon for Cleveland and its change to generic programming hurts Cleveland and the region. College radio is a historical and important creative outlet for students that is under threat now more than ever. That two local organizations would conspire to remove some of the best college radio programming for nothing in return is reprehensible.
Brad Odhner
WCSB
The closure of WCSB is something that cannot be met with anything but a fight. It is not only as an advocate for a deep believer in free and uncensored expression that I’m writing this today — it is as a lifelong devotee to historical preservation. To close the doors on WCSB is to close the doors on 49 years of Cleveland history, culture, and student voices. I served as Program Director from 2023-2025, and 40 years before that my father served as PD too. In an era where corporate homogeny rules, legacy of college radio is not something we as a collective can afford to lose.

During my time on the executive staff, I watched four full-time students pour their hearts into something many regard today as a ‘lost art’. Between rigorous internal reforms and public outreach, I saw a station limping from the aftermath of Covid reborn into everything it used to be and more. It’s disgraceful that the same year WCSB was voted the area’s #1 college station by Scene magazine, everything we worked for would come crumbling down for money grabs and expansionism.

I can’t stress enough how much WCSB means to our student members. It’s not just another public station; to us and so many beyond the walls of that familiar 4th floor, it was (and will remain) a creative incubator for voice and community. WCSB lives and breathes. And in it, we did too.
Cord Keeper
WCSB
Hello, I am a former DJ and former Promotions Director for WCSB (2007-2012) and a longtime listener before and after that, and I just want to say
that WCSB has meant a
lot to me and to the
Cleveland community for years. To see it just snatched away from the students/community like
that is a true atrocity. WCSB offered not only unique opportunities for students, it offered a diverse set of cultural, alternative, and fringe programming you can't find anywhere else. A staple of the Cleveland airwaves, handed over for some ad spots and a chairman seat. Its just bad business and shows what the station, students and community means to the university. Please pass this emergency measure and help save nearly 50 years of Cleveland culture!
Katie Wallace
WCSB Ideastream take over
As a life long listener of WCSB I am very disappointed in CSU & Ideastreams decision to take the station away from the students and the community. The station provided an outlet for a myriad of cultural voices that have now been silenced by this arrogant and sort sighted decision. Now more than ever Cleveland needs diverse radio options and not more media conglomeration.
Christopher Kulcsar
WCSB Cleveland State Student Radio
I support giving WCSB back to the students. Nobody wants to listen to “smooth jazz” like it’s 1989. We need the students’ independent voices. Free WCSB!
Mary Kelley
WCSB / Ideastream JazzNEO takeover.
WCSB (now XCSB) was vital to the general Cleveland music scene. The variety of content and diversity of on air creators fueled and informed real-world events around the region. The youth/student perspective is paramount to any artistic economy. Taking students and their cultural interests off-air kills a branch of that artistic economy and diverts the mission of the radio station out of alignment with the true artistic expression of those students, yielding uninspired programming for course credits. Elevator music! Bah! CSU, you've sanitized the airwaves. You've quashed free speech. You've trampled the first amendment. You've betrayed a city. You are the Art Modell of radio!
Thomas W.