[123] WKSU's incursion resulted in a feud with WCLV and station president Robert Conrad, who sought to carry NPR fare unavailable in Cleveland, including a radio adaptation of the first Star Wars film trilogy. [27] In May 1940, the FCC decided to authorize an FM broadcast band, effective January 1, 1941, operating on 40 channels spanning 4250 MHz, with the first five channels reserved for educational stations. As we looked at how to structure our new lineup, were bringing together the unique aspects of WKSU and WCPN in a way that provides our listeners with the best experience. Bringing the Ideastream and WKSU news teams together will allow us to become a truly regional newsroom, add regional context, cover more local stories and establish an Akron/Canton news hub. The NAACP's Cleveland branch sued the district in what became Reed vs. Rhodes[106] on December 12, 1973, alleging the fostering of segregation and demanded the institution of desegregation busing. [224] By the end of 2021, only three ethnic programs remained on the lineup. [168] WKSU and WCPN notably teamed up to help co-sponsor a live appearance of Garrison Keillor as both stations carried Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion; Perry acknowledged that it was the only way Keillor's Akron broadcast could be booked. [230], Ideastream general manager Jenny Northern, WCLV air host Bill O'Connell and station president/co-founder Robert Conrad each expressed hope the frequency change would bring back longtime listeners adversely affected following WCLV's 2001 move to the 104.9 FM facility. Conrad of Radio Seaway, Inc., immediately changed the call letters to WCLV, broadcasting at 95.5 megacycles. [56], As radio networks phased out sustaining programming,[57] WBOE began carrying shows through the NAEB Tape Network, which functioned through mail order reel-to-reel tapes[58] instead of dedicated phone lines. [4] The former WCPN's format was "merged" into WKSU, which became Northeast Ohio's lead NPR station employing the off- and on-air staffs from both stations. [167] Perry also estimated that one-third of WKSU's listener support now came from Cleveland proper. James Locklin Corporate Sales Director. This year's offerings are listed here in detail. Organized radio broadcasting was introduced in the United States in the early 1920s, and by the mid-1930s, the standard amplitude modulation (AM) broadcast band was considered to be too full to allow any meaningful increase in the number of stations. Classical music public radio station in Cleveland, This article is about the Cleveland radio station which has identified as WCLV since 2022. Classical programming has been a beloved part of the traditions of WKSU and Ideastream Public Media. DJs like . Radio-info.com has a chat board for aircheck collectors. Originally one of two NPR member stations in the Northeast Ohio region alongside Kentlicensed WKSU, this station assumed the format and calls of WCLV from 104.9 FM on March 28, 2022, following a programming merger between WCPN and WKSU. Under the auspices of the Cleveland Board of Education, WBOE signed on in 1938 as the first formally recognized educational radio station in the United States on the Apex band. There is also a DMOZ directory. Dutchman" in one of my classes. [81], Ultimately, educational radio had a mixed legacy: even with WBOE's relative success, the concept failed to materialize on a national level. [133] Norris again offered a compromise and merger proposal with CPL by late 1979 that would create a new board with all 30 CPR trustees and all seven CPL trustees, giving CPR a 307 majority but also allowing for the WBOE license to be taken over as soon as possible and returned to air;[134] Howley rejected this proposal, calling CPR's finances into question even with funding from the Gund Foundation. [33] The National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB) expressed hope WBOE's FM conversion and the coming availability of FM sets entering the marketplace could help the station find listeners outside of the classroom, a sentiment shared by U.S. Commissioner of Education John W. Studebaker, who lobbied for the 4244 MHz non-commercial allotment.[35]. The WCLV studios are located at Playhouse Square in Downtown Cleveland Audience Services: 216-916-6301. [242][233] WVIZ's 25.8 subchannel rebroadcasts WCLV in an audio-only format.[243]. [181] Community leaders also pledged to help raise funds to retire WCPN's $225,000 deficit and find a university affiliation for the station. But I'm getting bitter and there is no place in an obit for bitterness. Rick Jackson will continue to host Sound of Ideas. [4][l] At 90.3 FM, WCLV's potential audience was estimated to have increased by as many as one million people, particularly in Akron and Cleveland's eastern suburbs. I The entire weekday is now filled with news starting at 5 am. While attending P.C.C. [178] By June 1989, WCPN reached a settlement between the ethnic show producers and the Cleveland Roundtable that restored much of the ethnic fare except for the Spanish, Italian and Jewish programs; a Polish program was also added. [205] After the Ohio State Legislature inserted language into the state budget mandating the ethnic shows remain as-is in exchange for state funding[206] said changes were rescinded. [233] Concurrently, WCLV's former 104.9 FM facility changed their calls to WCPN and became a WKSU repeater for Lorain County and the western portion of Greater Cleveland. [190] WNET president William F. Baker called the merger "wonderful news and the right direction for public broadcasting to be moving in everyone winds up winning, especially the people of Cleveland. Paul Briggs, Cleveland Municipal School District superintendent[105], While WBOE started to evolve into a public radio station, the Cleveland school district entered a cataclysmic period. Thus WCPN is unlikely to degenerate into the frothy small-talk shows and quick-hit news segments that characterize so much of Cleveland's commercial news-talk stations. [66], The Cleveland school's emphasis on visual aides, including instructors and recorded music, to accentuate programs over WBOE led Variety to describe the radio station in their March 8, 1944, issue as "a close facsimile to actual television", suggesting that WBOE could be a forerunner to educational television. [175] An unidentified radio executive in remarks to The Plain Dealer considered the settlement "a bribe" and that WCPN "has now been usurped by an outside agency" that damaged the station's reputation. Our team members worked with leaders from NPR to provide a focused, dedicated news service on WKSU. [13] Newscasts from all four networks were also rebroadcast, along with locally originated programs from the stations if they were of educational interest. In the interest of helping our audience find their favorite programs, weve put together the full schedule, here. WCLV (104.9 FM) branded WCLV Classical 104.9 is a noncommercial educational classical radio station licensed to Lorain, Ohio. We need it now."[148]. By February 1932, the district moved their broadcasts back to WTAM, now NBC-owned, which offered them a daily block of airtime. These changes allow us to offer: A full schedule of our programs can be found here. [73] Levenson had been elevated to Cleveland schools superintendent earlier in 1961[74] and held the position until resigning in 1964 amid demands to implement desegregation busing with three predominantly white schools, but declined to cite that as the reason for his resignation. 1375 Euclid Avenue. WXEN also broadcast ethnic programming on a full-time basis until a format change the previous year; WZAK also dropped such programming outright in 1981. [192] WVIZ was negotiating with Cleveland State University in February 2000 for new studio space in downtown Cleveland to comply with a May 1, 2003, federal deadline for television stations to have high-definition equipment and publicly suggested long-ranging partnerships with Playhouse Square and WCPN. The Hungarian and Polish programming that previously aired Sunday evenings on WCPN will now air on WKSU HD4 Sundays at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. [48] The "Cleveland Plan" became a sobriquet to describe WBOE as a model for educational radio, but station director Edwin F. Helman downplayed this in 1949, writing, "we have the natural feeling that there is nothing different about our aims or programmingonly the differences from being a local and not a regional station. [64] The NAEB Tape Network was reorganized into the National Educational Radio Network in 1963, then sold to National Public Radio (NPR) as part of that network's 1971 launch; the tape network affiliates (including WBOE)[65] did not join NPR proper despite the changes, a distinction NPR emphasized. A transmitter and FM exciter[32] were donated to the station by FM's inventor, Major Edwin Howard Armstrong, who was impressed with the station's educational work during a tour of their facilities. Cleveland Board of Education's annual "Proceedings of the Board of Education". Financial statements disclosed during that meeting revealed that WCPN, despite increasing corporate underwriters and listener support, was experiencing deficits after declines in unrestricted foundation grants. Simna also hosts Symphony at Seven, broadcast continuously over WCLV since 1964 with KeyBank as the sole underwriter[m] throughout the program's entire history. [127] CPL's interest in WBOE was criticized as the Cleveland school board had appointed many of the library's trustees. We will continue to offer a variety of programs on our digital channels. [150] The school board approved the proposal on September 9, 1982, also allowing CPR to assume a 1972 CPB grant awarded to WBOE for any technical upgrades. Former radio personality Doug Allen is a jingle archivist and now maintains Jinglefreaks.com, where his growing collection of radio jingles is available online. [59][60] WNYE had already been supplying recordings of their weekly Assignment: U.N. to WBOE, which was utilized for high school students. [174] The station's news department was affected the most, with news director Vivian Goodman leaving to join WERE[182] and a resulting three-person staff that primarily worked on After Nine and news inserts on Morning Edition; by comparison, WKSU featured local newscasts throughout the day and oriented coverage to include Cleveland. Veteran WCPN listeners will be excited to try out two new weekend food shows: The Splendid Table at 10 p.m. Saturdays / 2 p.m. Sundays and Milk Street Radio at 11 p.m. Saturdays / 3 p.m. Sundays. WFHM-FM (95.5 FM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, known as "95.5 The Fish" and featuring a contemporary Christian format. WCLV 104.9 (classical - soon to move to 90.3) - Jackie Gerber mornings, Mark Satola middays, Bill O'Connell afternoons, Rob Greer evenings, John Mills overnight WMJI 105.7 (classic hits) - Mark Nolan, Jen Picciano, and Krystle Elyse mornings (1/2 credit to Keith Kennedy. WCPN decided to adopt a jazz music format after studies commissioned by the board of trustees found that no station in the market programmed contemporary jazz,[161] along with a need for increased local news coverage after the Cleveland Press folded in 1982. A behind-the-scenes look at some of the hilarious and unforgettable travails of the radio announcer. 7. [219] Plain Dealer reporter Michael McIntrye joined WCPN as host of The Sound of Ideas,[220][221] sharing the duties with staffer Rick Jackson. [166] WCPN added an evening news program Evening Edition, hosted by reporter Zina Vishnevsky, in November 1986[171] and mid-morning news program After Nine the following October. [145][146] In turn, WKSU general manager John Perry threatened to deny the winner for the 90.3 FM license carriage rights for A Prairie Home Companion (syndicated by American Public Media, which unlike NPR, allowed affiliates to claim market exclusivity) as a bargaining chip against Conrad. [91] The teachers union defied a back-to-work court order by Judge Harry A. Hanna on October 5, 1978,[119] while the station's $280,000 annual budget (equivalent to $1.16million in 2021) made the station expendable. [91] Animosity between Howley and Norris worsened as Howley called CPR "a nothing organization" in an FCC filing, while Norris publicly criticized Howley's conduct. Complete HD schedules are available here. [226] As part of the agreement, Ideastream took over the day-to-day operations of WKSU and all its respective translators and repeaters on October 1, 2021, retaining all of WKSU's employees. Mapcarta, the open map. "[21], At launch, WBOE only operated on school days for seven hours from 8:30a.m. to 4:30p.m.[13] with instructional material for students from kindergarten to high school. This station traditionally has dated its start to September 8, 1984,[6] when regular operations began under its current broadcast license. Amanda Rabinowitz will move to hosting All Things Considered on weeknights, a move that interests her personally and professionally. [199], Despite WCPN's separate history, one visible reminder of WBOE's past is in display at the Idea Center: a large Works Progress Administration (WPA) mural painted for the Cleveland Board of Education by Louis Grebenak (husband of Dorothy Grebenak), one of several WPA murals commissioned by the city in the 1930s that was restored by the Intermuseum Conservation Association, a non-profit art conservation group. [234] The "new" WCLV at 90.3 FM also inherited WCPN's jazz programming for overnights, while WKSU dropped all remaining classical programming from their lineup. [176] That attempt was unsuccessful with all existing board members retained. Collaboration explained: 'It's not a . [86] CPR offered to expand its board of directors from 24 to 31 members, adding three persons each from the CPL and Cuyahoga Community College, plus one from the Board of Education for the first 10 years of the new station's existence. [217] Former WNYC-FM personality Amy Eddings, who had been that station's local host for All Things Considered until 2015, joined WCPN as local host for Morning Edition in March 2017. [180], The settlement came weeks after Cleveland Public Radio saw three longstanding leaders depart during the station's annual board meeting: chairman emeritus Brad Norris, vice president H. Andrew Johnson III and trustee Ben Shouse. [121] In WBOE's absence, WKSU-FM, which carried NPR programming starting in 1973,[122][i] became the de facto sole NPR member station in northeast Ohio. [22] Because of the prior arrangements on WTAM and WHK, several divisions in the school district already boasted as much as eight years of broadcasting experience. [72] Similar to radio 30 years earlier, the Cleveland schools forged arrangements with the city's three existing television stationsKYW-TV, WEWS-TV and WJW-TVat the end of 1961, with each station providing a daily 15-minute block to air shows developed by WBOE staff; the schools were also furnished with up to $30,000 (equivalent to $272,038 in 2021) worth of television sets.
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