[15] A multimedia slideshow prepared by WBOE in early January 1975 touted the station's planned conversion into a public radio outlet and planned link with NPR[85] but progress was slowed by both technical matters and a lack of willingness by school board officials to follow through. [225], Kent State University's board of trustees and Ideastream Public Media entered into a public service operating agreement with the university's WKSU on September 15, 2021. [7] In addition to a standard analog transmission, WCLV broadcasts over two HD Radio channels, is partially simulcast over WKSU's third HD subchannel, relayed over WVIZ's 25.8 audio-only subchannel, and is available online. [15] Assigned the WBOE call sign, the station became fully licensed on November 21, 1938, as the first authorized educational broadcasting station[19][20] with facilities and transmitter located at Lafayette School on Abell Avenue. [153][128], Due to the way this arrangement was handled, the FCC dismissed the Cleveland Board of Education's license renewal application on October 18, 1982, officially deleting WBOE's license[136] and concurrently issued Cleveland Public Radio a construction permit for WBOE's replacement.
Image courtesy of Cleveland Women's Orchestra, Cellist Dane Johansen with the 88-year-old Orchestra, Photo courtesy of Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, Since 1965, WCLV has broadcast The Cleveland Orchestra on the Radio, a full-length concert featuring what the New York Times has referred to as "The Best Band in the Land!". [229], With this arrangement, a realignment of formats, stations and call signs took place on March 28, 2022. [43] Contemporary historian Carroll Atkinson, Ph.D. regarded the Cleveland schools as the "strongest exponent of the 'master teacher' ideal in the value of radio instruction"[14] while William B. Levenson called WBOE "America's Pioneer School Station". [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. [162] WGAR (1220 AM), by then a country outlet, donated its entire jazz record collection to the station. 30, Quire Cleveland's Pater Noster Concert April 21st through 23rd, Writer Neil Gaiman debuts his first music album with an Australian string quartet, Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet: Tiny Desk Concert, Pianist Lara Downes heals loss with 'Love At Last', Trinny the Litter Pick-Up Dog Wins Pet News of the Week Apr. Were excited to share that they will all remain on-air! [207] InfOhio, an early-afternoon program with an emphasis on statewide news[161] was moved to late mornings as InfOhio After Nine[202][208] while incumbent midday jazz host Dee Perry[209] began hosting a daily arts-oriented newsmagazine, Around Noon. [14] Because conventional radio sets could not pick up the Apex band, WBOE did not have any discernable audience otherwise; as educator Paul C. Reed summarized the station, "WBOE, as originally set up, could reach its schools but could not reach an adult audience at home. Listen live Classical 104.9 FM radio with Onlineradiobox.com . This page was last edited on 5 February 2023, at 17:52. [81], Ultimately, educational radio had a mixed legacy: even with WBOE's relative success, the concept failed to materialize on a national level. Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera 2022-2023 Season. Vintage airchecks from the 1950s to the 1990s is a directory of other sites. [116][117], As the school year began on September 12, 1978, Cleveland's teachers union went on strike,[118] closing all school buildings and preventing in-school instructional programming from resuming over WBOE. [158][84] The district agreed to demolish the building in 2010 as part of a larger slate of 25 demolitions throughout the city.[159]. How did you make these scheduling decisions? [98] John Basalla, involved with Baldwin Wallace College's radio station WBWC since 1972, began working at WBOE as a part-timer in 1976 and also began archiving recordings and transcriptions used by the station throughout its history, many of which came from 16-inch electrical transcription discs, which he has continued to the present day. Marie M. Powell, for Every Week Magazine[27], From its 1938 sign on and in the 39 years that followed, WBOE operated as an adjunct of the Cleveland Public Schools, with broadcasts limited to school days and going dark during weekends, holidays and summer vacations. Cleveland Board of Education's annual "Proceedings of the Board of Education".
WCLV, 104.9 FM, Cleveland, OH | Free Internet Radio | TuneIn Grace Lee Mims (July 17, 1930 - October 3, 2019) was an African-American singer, radio personality and leading member of the arts community in Cleveland, Ohio best known for her 43 years as a radio host and producer on the classical radio station WCLV . [42] On January 1, 1949, WBOE began broadcast solely on 90.3 MHz, increasing its transmitter power to 3,000 watts and an effective radiated power (ERP) of 10,000 watts; a power upgrade to 5,000 watts and an ERP of 15,000 watts took place on December 9, 1959.[15]. [212] An additional schedule realignment in 2006 saw a further de-emphasizing from jazz with the moving of Jazz from the Lincoln Center to Friday overnights, the cancellation of Jazz After Hours and locally produced Jazz Tracks with Bobby Jackson and the addition of BBC World Service programming overnights. WCPN chairman Charles Marcoux tacitly confirmed this by saying, "we made a compromise, and no one has pretended it's anything other than a compromise".
Ideastream To Begin Operating WKSU; Swap Frequencies Of WCPN & WCLV brunette, white, black, rich, poor, educated or dullards. [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. [224] By the end of 2021, only three ethnic programs remained on the lineup. The WCLV studios are located at Playhouse Square in Downtown 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. Radio-info.com has a chat board for aircheck collectors. [175] A schedule realignment to accommodate the premiere of Weekend Edition in the fall of 1987 saw the programs consolidated into a 12-hour block on Sundays, eliciting anger among the newly established "American Nationalities Movement of Ohio" which attempted a takeover of WCPN's board. [75], WVIZ signed on as Cleveland's educational television outlet on February 7, 1965, owned by a consortium and based out of Max S. Hayes High School. 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. [25], At the same time the 41.0243.98 MHz Apex band was established, the FCC noted that research would begin on the technical requirements of frequency modulation as a possible alternative to the ultra high frequency broadcasts that Apex utilitzed. Bellerive-sur-Allier has about 8,620 residents. David C. Linton Program Director. And for night owls looking for a news fix, WKSU will now have BBC World Service on overnights.
RADIO | Encyclopedia of Cleveland History - Case Western Reserve University The results of all that work will become a reality on Monday, March 28, when well rollout a new schedule on our news station WKSU. [1], WCPN had been substantially evolving prior to the merger. [23] The station would soon have an international influence when Levenson was a featured speaker at a March 1946 conference for the Canadian National Advisory Council on School Broadcasting, with Canadian Broadcasting Corporation executives in attendance. One of the reasons the Cleveland Public Schools entered radio broadcasting via WBOE was the resistance by commercial radio of such silent intervals during their programs, noting that "there is a basic distinction between educational and commercial broadcasting. [125][126], Lee C. Howley, Jr., board president of the Cleveland Public Library (CPL), revealed at the end of 1978 that the system had been negotiating with the school board over the past several months to buy WBOE, prompting WVIZ to withdraw their interest in the station. Featuring in-school instructional programming throughout the majority of its existence, WBOE joined National Public Radio (NPR) in 1977 but shut down the following year due to extreme fiscal distress within the Cleveland Public Schools; this resulted in the absence of public radio in Cleveland proper until successor station WCPN's launch in 1984. And they were all of those things. 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. For example, a history broadcast for elementary classes may be scheduled. [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. [13][47] All stations supplied private lines to WBOE's studios for the purpose of either directly broadcasting sustaining programs to a classroom[f] or to record them for future rebroadcast, sometimes with added narration. [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. Complete HD schedules are available here. [9] By 1954, WBOE was one of approximately 90 stations that participated in the service, and one of nine in the state. Access the free radio live stream and discover more radio stations at one glance. Science Friday will now be on Friday nights at 8 p.m., which is a new program to the WKSU lineup and a new time for WCPN listeners. [12] It would be a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation's General Education Board in 1937,[13] coupled with the demands of accommodating commercial radio, that prompted the school system to enter broadcasting. What's happening with the schedule changes? Cleveland needs public radio. 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.
Jazz 91.9 WCLK Staff Directory The second phase will take effect on Monday, March 28 . [112] The school board was mandated to institute a busing plan, but needed to raise money to fund it; a mill levy referendum failed on April 6, 1978, by a 21 margin almost entirely on racial lines,[113] putting the district in debt of $30million (equivalent to $125million in 2021) and threatening an outright closure of the district. Enjoy free WiFi, free parking, and breakfast. [40] During a transition period, the FCC allowed stations to simultaneously broadcast on both their old and new assignments, and in July 1948 the Board of Education requested permission to remain on 44.5 MHz "for as long as possible",[41] and from September 1 to the end of the year WBOE was permitted to broadcast on both frequencies. [184] This, in turn, led WCPN to rely significantly more on membership donations via pledge drives, boasting a base of 8,000 supporters by 1993. [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. Are you a student looking to answer NewsDepth's weekly write-in question? Morning announcer Jacqueline Gerber on WCLV FM/104.9 is also known as "Queen of the Morn." Regular listeners are familiar with her easy manner and droll sense of humor as well as the "Traffic . We're broke. Classroom teachers have tuned in at the proper hour and from the loudspeaker their pupils might hear: "Good morning, children. [43] Programs often had periods of silent intervals in order for teachers to present supplemental materials,[20][45][d] and some programs incorporated the use of lantern slides in the classroom as a visual component. While attending P.C.C. You want any simpler than that? Stay at this business-friendly hotel in Bellerive-sur-Allier. [140][141] Earlier in the year, Waldrip's magnet school proposal for the district involved a provision to possibly reopen WBOE, which the district had the ability to do as it still held the license, albeit expired. I met Chuck Van Horne, a.k.a. Cleveland, Ohio 44115-1835. WCLV, Cleveland's classical music radio station was launched on 1 Nov. 1962, following the purchase of WDGO-FM from Douglas G. Oviatt. [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.
WCLV | Cleveland OH - Facebook Ideastream, the operator of Public News/Talk 90.3 WCPN Cleveland, Classical 104.9 WCLV Lorain and PBS affiliate WVIZ Cleveland, will offer positions to all of WKSU's current staffers bringing their total organization to around 150 employees. [17] FM experimentations soon revealed significant advantages to Apex, especially with sound quality and resistance to interference from static, including from lightning. There is also a DMOZ directory. [188] Jensen published an op-ed to The Plain Dealer in response to proposed funding cuts to the CPB by the 104th U.S. Congress, calling the CPB "an appropriate and needed expenditure for the public good an investment, as it were, in something that the country needs but that would not come about through market forces alone. A lot! [156] Transmissions resumed on May 7, 1984, again with a silent carrier after the CRRS successfully secured funding to reactivate the station's SCA subchannel.
[107] Arnold R. Pinkney, the school board's Black president, expressed worry that the lawsuit would heighten racial tensions in the city;[108][h] the district later claimed fears of white flight precluded them from implementing a plan of their own volition. who VTs the overnight shift from iHeart Akron/Canton's WKDD 98.1) By the time you write the obit, bitterness is a day late and a dollar short. [218] A native of Brunswick,[216] Eddings also began involvement with The Downtowner, a weekly WCPN-produced podcast devoted to downtown Cleveland's revival. Public radio listeners may have noticed a change Monday, as WKSU 89.7 FM became the primary NPR news and information station for Northeast Ohio at midnight. This year's offerings are listed here in detail. [99][100], Ethnic shows, traditionally a staple of commercial station WZAK,[g] were added to the Saturday lineup, with WBOE joining WOSU, KQED-FM and WUSF among non-commercial educational stations that also broadcast ethnic fare. [67] During a keynote speech at the NAEB's 1953 Lincoln Lodge Seminar, Levenson reflected on WBOE's effectiveness as a learning tool, seeing television as a step forward and a way for students to learn by being emotionally involved in the course material. Owned by Ideastream Public Media, the station serves both Greater Cleveland and Northeast Ohio as the home station for the Cleveland Orchestra and an affiliate of the BBC World Service. [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. [86] A library operating a radio station was not without precedent, as WPLN-FM in Nashville, Tennessee, and WFPL in Louisville, Kentucky, were both established by their city's respective public libraries. [91] Norris' initial proposal to the Board of Education had CPR assume control of WBOE and convert it to a public radio outlet with all in-school programming moved to a second SCA subchannel, but the board was not interested. [59] WBOE occasionally did broadcast outside of the school day: for a two-week period in January 1954, WBOE experimented with a five-hour evening program block aimed at adults; such fare already aired over WBOE during semester breaks. Looking to expand the number of available frequencies, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began to issue licenses to parties interested in testing the suitability of using higher transmitting frequencies between roughly 25 and 44 MHz. Eugenia Ricks Assistant Station Manager. [84] The studio move was completed on December 16, 1974;[85] additionally, the station's transmitter was moved from Lafayette School to a new tower in Parma, Ohio, along with a power upgrade to 50,000 watts. 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. "[9] Edward L. Hoon of the Ohio Education Association cited WBOE as a way to effectively reach students who were sick, hospitalized or unable to physically attend classes. We are much better at destruction than we are at preservation, doesn't it seem that way to you? Listen to WCLV 104.9 FM internet radio online. [128] Cleveland Public Radio bid $234,360.87 (equivalent to $875,011.72 in 2021) but this was rejected by the school board, which insisted that bids needed to be all-cash; CPR's bid was a mixture of a pledge from The George Gund Foundation[91] and assumption of a Health, Education and Welfare obligation and other outstanding debt. The WDAS radio host known for her blonde hair, contagious smile, and dynamic yet down-to-earth personality has accomplished a great deal of success in her hometown Philadelphia. No other school aystem in the country, as yet, has carried the experiment of direct teaching by radio quite so far.
WCLV | Ideastream Public Media [196] In a 2006 interview, Jensen explained the changes were "to disrupt ourselves to break down our own walls in order to partner effectively and accept that we could not do this on our own we had to subsume our own organizational ego"[214] WKSU's format adjustment in July 2013 placing a greater emphasis on news programming resulted in both it and WCPN now largely mirroring each other, carrying much of the same nationally produced shows. [51] Provided daily listings from all four networks, WBOE had the ability to broadcast live speeches or addresses from world leaders if any network carried it. [124] After NPR's board denied this request, Conrad pulled the Chicago Symphony, the Milwaukee Symphony and New York Philharmonic broadcasts off WKSU and threatened to do the same for Cleveland Orchestra broadcasts WCLV originated and syndicated. [86], Production of in-school materials continued under coordinator Charles Siegel, with shows like Living today: Survival, It's your decision! [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. [9] Studios were constructed on the sixth floor of the Board of Education building in Downtown Cleveland, which radio supervisor William B. Levenson boasted as "one of the finest in the country". In early 1997, the station had dropped most jazz programming during the midday hours in favor of news-oriented fare including The Diane Rehm Show[202] and The World. [172] As a likely reflection of WCPN's growth, WMJI began airing a Sunday evening jazz program of their own in 1986, while Akron's WONE-FM started a daily late-morning segment playing a different jazz song every day.[173]. Weekdays from midnight to 6 a.m. on WCLV will be hosted by radio veteran and jazz aficionado Dan Polletta. Students in Glenville High's telecommunications program produced Music Connection, a weekly show on music appreciation centered around rock and roll and R&B that ran on WBOE over the summer of 1977. Sustaining programs were usually presented on commercial radio networks with no in-program advertisements. Or, you can call or write to us: Ideastream Public Media. On June 15, 2021, WCPN rebranded as "Ideastream Public Media WCPN" as part of a group-wide effort to celebrate the entity's 20th anniversary. 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. Morning Edition begins every weekday at 5 am with host Amy Eddings, The Sound of Ideas immediately follows at 9 am with host Rick Jackson, Were adding local midday news breaks with host Jeff St. Clair from Noon 4 pm, The City Club will broadcast live at noon beginning April 1, All Things Considered with host Amanda Rabinowitz begins at 4 pm, Rick Jackson returns at 9 pm with a repeat of the Sound of Ideas, More access to public radio for more listeners, A bigger regional newsroom and more reporting.
Classical music, WCLV take up key roles in public radio merger [59][60] WNYE had already been supplying recordings of their weekly Assignment: U.N. to WBOE, which was utilized for high school students. However, other accounts trace its history to the station it supplanted, WBOE. Phone: 216-916-6100. James Locklin Corporate Sales Director. "[57] Levenson's hope in 1941 of "a steady, if not rapid growth" in FM educational stations throughout the U.S.[13] largely occurred by the early 1950s,[59] but the FM band itself remained obscure overall; by 1958, WBOE was the only Cleveland FM station in operation that also had full coverage in neighboring Akron. "[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.
WFHM-FM - Wikipedia [63] Starting in 1960 and running through 1967, the station aired Healthlines, a weekly series aimed at physicians by the Academy of Medicine of Cleveland & Northeast Ohio that WGAR originated. [71], It would not be until 1961 that area civic leaders, including Cleveland mayor Anthony J. Celebrezze, agreed to a plan financing the construction of six educational UHF stations throughout Northeast Ohio, including one in Cleveland. Progressive Insurance donated $48,000 earmarked for news coverage on urban-related issues and pledged an additional $10,000 if WCPN met a pledge drive goal of 248 additional supporters. [211], [Living in Ada, Ohio and working for the Lima News] was fine until the job opportunity came at then-WCPN and I was invited to submit my resume for this Morning Edition post. [36][37] In July 1946, the FCC directed that FM stations currently operating on 4244 MHz would have to move to new frequencies by the end of the year,[38] and WBOE was reassigned to 44.3 MHz. [164] This event included a live show featuring vocalist Mel Torm at the Cleveland Masonic Auditorium, followed by WCPN making its formal debut at 10p.m. that evening. WCLV (104.9 FM) branded WCLV Classical 104.9 is a noncommercial educational classical radio station licensed to Lorain, Ohio. [52] Sustaining programs relayed over WBOE during the 19391940 school year included Mutual's Intercollegiate Debates, NBC's Gallant American Women and Between the Bookends, and CBS's Young People's Concerts. [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. Cleveland Public Radio also pledged $150,000 (equivalent to $560,041 in 2021) in public service, with only $23,152.07 (equivalent to $86,441 in 2021) as cash. [242][233] WVIZ's 25.8 subchannel rebroadcasts WCLV in an audio-only format.[243]. [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. [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. [15], Cleveland lawyer William Bradford "Brad" Norris[89] founded Cleveland Public Radio (CPR) in 1976 with the intent to finally bring NPR programming to Cleveland, which at the time was the largest U.S. city without a local fulltime NPR station,[90] a situation the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) was also reportedly embarrassed by. Ideastream Public Media has set the date for the next phase of its integration of Public News/Talk 89.7 WKSU Kent/Akron OH into its network. [200] The WBOE mural was donated to Ideastream and publicly unveiled in the front lobby of the Idea Center in 2014 as part of WCPN's 30th anniversary. 7. Moving our WCLV Classical service to 90.3 FM makes this timeless music accessible to a million more people in Northeast Ohio and celebrates local treasures including The Cleveland Orchestra, Apollos Fire, Ls Delices and more. Judging by the interest of educators in the operation of the Cleveland School Station WBOE, it is quite probable that there will be a steady, if not rapid, growth of such FM transmitters throughout the country. [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. [147] The continued infighting between CPL and CPR prompted Edward Howard chairman John T. Bailey to call the absence of NPR from Cleveland "an embarrassment and a disgrace" in a Plain Dealer op-ed, including mailing addresses for both Norris and Carl S. Asseff (Howley's successor as CPL chairman);[86] Bailey stated, "it is time to halt this embarrassing and costly dispute. [90] WBOE's NPR addition was regarded as "half-hearted, poorly conceived and badly funded" as the station continued airing in-school educational programming during the weekday,[92] did not set up a local news department or conduct pledge drives. Our foremost responsibility is to provide trusted local, regional and national news to and for the 22 counties we serve. Between January 1 and April 1, 2022, Ideastream will realign the stations as WKSU will become the .
Thank Goodness for Cleveland Radio! - moderncleveland.com [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. [49], Even as WBOE was a non-commercial station, the Cleveland Public Schools made special arrangements with WTAM, WHK, WGAR, WCLE and WJW[e] to provide access to educational sustaining programs from the four major radio networks: NBC, Blue/ABC, CBS and Mutual.