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WCSB
Hello Council, I just want to add my voice to the chorus begging for the return of WCSB. The student led radio station means so much to so many people in our region. Please help idea stream to see the sense in just bringing it back, since it is clearly what the people want. Please and thank you.
Anna Lee Rindskopf
The Ideastream Takeover of WCSB
Hello,
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.
Nathan A. Webster
XCSB Student Radio
I grew up in Cleveland, spending 30 years in North Collinwood, and music and radio were a huge part of my life and identity. Cleveland State’s radio station helped launch the careers of many of the legendary WMMS disc jockeys who defined an era of Cleveland rock radio. The station’s success — and its impact on our city’s culture — came directly from those CSU roots.

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.
Barbara Sandon Norris
WCSB
I urge the council to pass, unanimously, a resolution condemning IdeaStream and Cleveland State University for ruining a fine student-operated radio station on the eve of its 50th anniversary.
Vern Morrison
IdeaStream takeover of WCSB
I lived in old Brooklyn from 19-22 and during that time I became a regular listener of WCSB. From the Jazz and Blues radio show on Sunday mornings followed by Aounds of Beautiful Slovenia to the ILL Nation Monday afternoons through to my favorite radio show Highs in the 60s on Saturdays. I listened to WCSB more than 15 hours a well and have continued listening since moving out of Cleveland. Student run radio is the only place to hear diverse music from around the world.

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.
Evan Belfiore
Transferring wcsb FM signal back to the student organization
For nearly all of the 23 years that the Ohio City bicycle co-op has been around, WCSB has been a staple over our airwaves in our shop, helping us to create a multicultural community of Necessity Cyclists and volunteers who seek to support them. No matter what the intended outcome was of this arrangement, it is undisputed that it was unsavory and left out vital members of the community and the student organization who should have been involved from the beginning. We the people want WCSB returned to the community and the students who have cherished it for nearly 50 years.
Erik Anderson
CSU and Ideastream bulldozing WCSB in the absence of democracy
“Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people- they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.” Paulo Freire in Pedagogy of the Oppressed, pub 1968

As a CSU alumni and someone previously interviewed on Ideastream, I am currently ashamed to have affiliation with these two entities. I know people involved in both are aware of the ramifications of silencing artists, steamrolling the commons, and refusing dialogue with the people impacted by public choices, and so I wonder how they could stand for this. There is a great space, in this moment, to align with community and compassion by championing accountability, admitting a misstep, and moving forward together with WSCB returned to the volunteers and staff. Any alternative is merely a reiteration of profits/power over people, and will disgrace the legacies of both CSU and Ideastream.
Heather hansen
Resolution 1324-2025
I am urging council to support the Resolution 1324-2025 to empower the CSU and larger Cleveland community to continue the operations of community building and free speech through WCSB. This organization was largely self-supported and provided a community to our city's artists, students, and community members. The hasty revocation of the organization's usage of the 89.3FM frequency and their online presence has created a large hole in the fabric of our city.
RT
WCSB
WCSB changed my life, WCSB is an integral part of the northeast Ohio community and beyond. The volunteers worked hard every week curating shows for the listening public out of the love they have for this in their hearts. WCSB was the center of the Cleveland creative community. It was a home and place of belonging for the outliers and misfits. WCSB's wide range of programming appealed to communities of all classes and various backgrounds. WCSB helped keep the Cleveland Slovenian diaspora, the largest Slovenian population outside of Slovenia itself, connected and up to date on community events. There was something for everyone. Now there is only something for the rich elites. WCSB donors paid for the equipment to run the station that CSU is holding hostage, this included a new antenna installed in April 2021 that was also paid in part for with a grant from the College Radio Foundation, and now this antenna is being used by Ideastream rather than the purpose the donors donated for. This is a raw deal for Cleveland.
William J Ream III
The WCSB Resolution
As a donor and supporter of 89.3 WCSB and a CSU student, I think what Ideastream and CSU did to the radio station was incredibly tone deaf and detrimental to the community. Kevin Martin stated on Friday the he wasn't aware the radio station was anything more than a "club" what they decided to terminate it. Laura Bloomberg showed little respect for the people who have been building this organization for ALMOST 50 years. It is clear that Bloomberg sold out the community's voice for a seat on the Ideastream Board of trustees. And then, to offer to let Ideastream purchase the radio euqiptment that was fundraised for and purchased by the students is nothing less than a slap in the face and a middle finger to all of the student's hard work. Bloomberg show absolutely no regard or respect for the students and community in this deal and that is exactly how much respect we have for her deal with Ideastream.
I am fully in support of this resolution. CSU and Ideastream have badly hurt their reputations among the community and have surely been feeling the backlash of their decision. Return radio to the students and let them be
James Sanders