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WCSB
I am in full support of CSU/IDEASTREAM returning the operation of WCSB to the student body. As a two-time graduate of Cleveland State and a high school counselor in Cleveland, I cannot, in good conscience, continue to encourage my students to apply to an institution that has dealings like the recent partnership with IDEASTREAM, which complete lacked any integrity or transparency and then furthered the personal/professional agenda of Laura Bloomberg.

This current administration does NOT have the best interest of its students (or MY students) in mind, or the local communities they represent. What reprehensible behavior by both the president of CSU and IDEASTREAM Public Media. We will not tire in our efforts. We will continue to demand the return of WCSB to the students.

Lisa Ellis
WCSB
I am writing to strongly and wholeheartedly support the resolution to urge CSU to rightfully return WCSB to student management and terminate their ill-conceived and sloppily implemented arrangement with Ideastream/JazzNEO. The decision to unilaterally destroy a vibrant and vital source of free and diverse public creative expression and intellectual discourse that provided such immense value to students while serving such an important role in the Cleveland community for fifty years—replacing it with such a tone-deaf and boring alternative—shows a profoundly concerning lack of vision and basic good sense on the part of CSU’s administration. Further, the manner in which this “transition” was handled with virtually no notice and sudden police involvement is unprofessional and plainly coarse, bordering on violent. As a community member, alum, and (until recently) instructor at this university, their conduct has not only been disappointing, it is embarrassing. The administration absolutely knows better, as does Ideastream, and they can easily make it right by returning WCSB to student hands. CSU knows what they need to do. The city for which they are named will remember their choices.
Zach Peckham
WCSB
WCSB is a Cleveland treasure. For decades, it has celebrated and exposed people across our region to a massive diversity of musical genres and cultures -- all through the sweat equity of deeply committed DJs. It's been an invaluable community, a training ground on how to run a real-life radio station and a source of pure joy and exploration for so many across our region. The people who have invested their time, musical knowledge and administrative skills into making WCSB such a valuable station deserve to be on the air. They deserve Cleveland's appreciation and support for offering such a truly valuable public asset. I urge you to do what's needed to get WCSB back on the air!
Kate Sopko
WCSB
Please do not underestimate the role that WCSB played in providing news and entertainment to a variety of communities in Greater Cleveland. All of these communities lost an important cultural institution when Ideastream and CSU colluded to rob us of WCSB. All of which took place behind closed doors. They must be held accountable for what they have done.
Eric Schulte
CSU 86’d WCSB, we want it back
The three current highest-paid salaries at Cleveland State University: the current president and the last two former (disgraced) presidents, totaling over $150 million.

But ok, let’s kill a five-decade shining star in radio — one paid by general fund money and donors; that fed the rock radio revolution in Cleveland and was a pilgrim of online streaming?

Make it make sense.

CSU didn’t care to know what they had and Ideastream bilked them for it — in exchange for radio ads and a board seat!

Worst trade since the ol’ Cleveland Indians days, when they’d trade all-star players for cash and “players to be named later.”

And so very on-brand for them both.

To have jazz music — a quintessentially Black American art form — being used to silence marginalized community voices is “next-level terrible,” a slap on the face.

Especially when you consider that the jazz musicians making it had trouble finding clubs to play and were once persecuted (and much worse!) just to be heard?

You mean to tell us that NO ONE thought about the optics of THAT before they made their decision? That would have been the very FIRST thing to ask all the parties involved in the room:

“Uh. You SURE about this?”

There aren’t enough hair shirts for the two marquee “urban institutions” involved.

And these are highly educated leaders?

Sure. But they’re not FROM here, or they would have pulled the emergency brake on this harebrained idea before it ever got out of committee. Now. Give back WCSB.
peasea
Wcsb
I’m writing to express my opposition to the format change at Wcsb. Illegal radio is an important and vital asset to the community. Taking the station away fro the students limits their opportunities to learn about broadcasting and represent the communities from which they came. Please reconsider the change and give the station back to the students.
J Delfs
Resolution 1324-2025
Hello,

My name is Jarett Theberge and I'm writing to implore city council to support resolution 1324-2025 and restore 89.7 WCSB back to it's student run programming.

As a former college radio host for Black Squirrel Radio at Kent State, I can confidently say that being a part of college radio was not only the best thing I did in college, but also paid dividends for my professional development. As a content creator and professional communicator, college radio gave me the confidence to find my voice and audience. Additionally, college radio provides a platform for unbridled creativity and diversity in programming.

But since Ideastream took over the frequency, we are all left without these voices. A true sense of community and tradition up-rooted for the sake of a single genre of music. I worry that future students and community members will never have the opportunity to enjoy the gift that is being involved in college radio the way it was meant to be. Avant garde. Informative. Eclectic.

Since I was in high school, tuning into WCSB at any given time of day allowed me to discover new genres of music and voices from the community that wouldn't have otherwise. A true stream of ideas, if you will.

I would like to thank my councilman, Kris Harsh, for supporting this measure and once again implore the rest of council to do the same for the students and the community.

Thank you,

Jarett Theberge
Jarett Theberge
WCSB
I’m writing in support of reinstating WCSB as a public station with the former staff to retain their positions. This radio station is our young people’s voices, commentary, love of music and direct connection to the people of cleveland and its surrounding suburbs. Removing it and replacing it with a generic format goes against all that makes listening a pleasure and cuts into our community at its base.
Teresa Duke
WCSB ideastream takeover
I think the way this situation has been handled is so disrespectful to the CSU students, alumni, supporters and the Cleveland community. CSU student run WCSB was a beacon of the Cleveland community. Being able to tune in and listen to actual people that live here, playing music by people that live here (and much more) for the people that live here is so important in a time where most music platforms are dominated by pre programmed shows and songs are selected by an AI algorithm.
Joseph Arceneaux
WCSB
WCSB was a vital community resource and a huge part of my everyday life. Ideastream's callous takeover of the FM signal was a crime. The things that make this city beautiful and worth living in need to be protected and when they are threatened we have to fight back in any way we can.
Solomon St Clair