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Making a Public Comment

Council welcomes public comment before regular council meetings. Fill out the online form below for your chance to make a public comment at the next regular Monday Council meeting.  Please read the revised rules and procedures. 

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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.
WCSB Takeover
I strongly urge Cleveland City Council to do what it can to return Cleveland State University students and community programmers to the airwaves on WCSB 89.3FM. The decision to automate programming on the campus radio signal will have a measurable impact on already marginalized communities across our city, in addition to undue harm to arts & culture programming and, of course, the economics surrounding it. Our namesake public university and local public media are meant to operate in the interest of the greater good of the community in which they serve, and what Ideastream and CSU have done with WCSB-FM, a volunteer-run public service, is reprehensible.

So please return Cleveland State University students and community programmers to the airwaves on WCSB 89.3FM
Kent C Stricker
WCSB
Give the radio station back to the students. Brunch jazz 24/7 is a preposterous use of this community asset
L.S. Quinn
WCSB / Ideastream
Return WCSB 89.3 FM to the CSU students. They were an asset to both the university and community. CSU president Laura Bloomberg made a horrendous deal with Ideastream and needs to be held accountable for her misguided and questionable actions. This statement from Chris Quinn at cleveland.com echoes my thoughts exactly and is something Bloomberg and CSU's board of trustees need to be respond to.

Chris Quinn: "I don’t understand the CSU side of it. They are a school, they are about education. And a student-run radio station trains kids to do all sorts of things. It’s the engineering, it’s the on air, it’s the music, it’s the running it, the managing of it. And it’s all gone now.”
Bill Peters
Save WCSB
As a resident of Cleveland’s Ward 6, I’m urging the City Council to pass the resolution supporting WCSB, a vital part of our city’s culture. WCSB has always been a reflection of the diversity and vitality of our city, and an important opportunity for real learning for CSU students.
Julie Burrell
WCSB 98.3 Cleveland
WCSB is a local treasure and part of the reason most other cities are jealous of Cleveland. The diverse voices that existed on this radio station must be reinstated. We are a better city for having them and City Council should do anything in its power to help the students and community members who poured their blood, sweat, and tears into WCSB to make it the vibrant and thrilling thing it was. Please help.
Brian C Hare