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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
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
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
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
WCSB 89.3 takeover
I would like to express my strong support for the emergency ordinance proposed by Council Member Harsh and others regarding WCSB 89.3.

As a doctoral candidate and instructor in the music department at CWRU, my work is all about convincing undergrads that sharing musical experiences is worth making time for. College radio embodies those values in ways that we in the academy can only aspire to. CSU and Ideastream have taken away access to on-air radio experience and meaningful technical and leadership work for its students and can only promise the possibility of internships at Ideastream. How can an internship possibly offer experience at the level of responsibility and leadership developed by working at the student-run station?

I am also a performer of classical music in Cleveland, which means that I and my colleagues directly benefit from Ideastream's coverage of shows and their cultivation of a local audience for our music. The former WCSB was a vital part of cultivating local audiences for many other genres of music (including jazz!) and the loss of that platform for local musicians is devastating.

Please demonstrate to CSU and Ideastream that their standing in the community depends on their service to the people and culture of the city. These institutions cannot exist without us and must be held accountable to our interests.
Jonathan Goya
The transfer of WCSB's broadcasting to IdeaStream
At a time of increasing media consolidation, when the spread of false information from AI and other means is becoming more prevalent, and when political actors on the left and right increasingly seek to intimidate the media, it is imperative that we protect independent, locally based media outlets. The student-led broadcasting of WCSB served not just those attending CSU, but the broader community. As a nonprofit broadcaster WCSB was able to offer a heterogeneous programming mix that served multiple audience segments in our community across both the airwaves and internet. For some segments, WCSB was their sole representation on the broadcast dial. So it is especially troubling that administrations of two nonprofit entities, CSU and IdeaStream, colluded to silence WCSB in seeming violation of the very missions of those entities, i.e., to serve the public good and earn the public trust through a dedication to truth. It is important that City Council call out what their actions truly are: a self-serving backroom deal that comes at the expense of the broader community in which they operate.
Tom Hudak