[162] WGAR (1220 AM), by then a country outlet, donated its entire jazz record collection to the station. [211], By 2005, WCPN experienced some staff turnover attributed to the merger, with news director Dave Pignanelli leaving for WKSU in the same capacity and the news department shrinking from 18 staffers to nine; WCPN only employed four news staffers when Pignanelli joined in 1996. WKSU general manager John Perry noted that during a recent pledge drive, $85,000 out of the $105,000 raised came outside of NPR's offerings, speaking to WKSU's health and strength; Perry was optimistic of both stations co-existing as WCPN focused more on ethnic programming and jazz. [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. [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. Listeners can also tune into 89.7 HD3 for an All Classical stream that delivers 24/7 classical music. 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. [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. Weve also added more opportunities throughout the weekend to hear some of your favorite public radio shows like Wait WaitDont Tell Me! [190] Both stations collaborated for My Land, Your Land, a December 1997 WVIZ documentary on urban sprawl narrated by NPR's Ray Suarez that WCPN simulcast the audio of;[191] despite multiple logistical issues in production, it was positively received among both station's respective audiences. Interment will be in the muck of the present. 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. Ray Cobb Underwriting Sales Representative. All we have to do is look it up. along with featuring jazz in assorted hours. Of Note is Ideastream Public Medias classical music newsletter curated for you by WCLVhosts. 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[68] Levenson also noted that television courses need to be presented not as supplementary to a course, but intrinsic to it, a process that had been successful at WBOE. [161], In 1993, Jerrold Wareham was named as WVIZ's general manager, succeeding station co-founder Betty Cope; shortly after his appointment, Kit Jensen first proposed the idea of both entities forming a partnership. Kerwin D. Sims Membership Director. [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]. Or, you can call or write to us: Ideastream Public Media. [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. "[194] Most notably, both stations were almost entirely debt-free, a rarity among mergers in the industry following the Telecommunications Act of 1996. [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. [13] Newscasts from all four networks were also rebroadcast, along with locally originated programs from the stations if they were of educational interest. We are your source for trusted. Weekdays from midnight to 6 a.m. on WCLV will be hosted by radio veteran and jazz aficionado Dan Polletta. Overnights feature jazz music locally hosted with Dan Polletta and John Simna. Fans of The Takeaway, On Being, Sound Opinions, and the 2-hour Folk Alley Sunday shows can also find those programs and more on the HD4 channel. Former radio personality Doug Allen is a jingle archivist and now maintains Jinglefreaks.com, where his growing collection of radio jingles is available online. Cleveland Board of Education's annual "Proceedings of the Board of Education". When WBOE's conversion took place, only about a dozen FM stations were on the air in the entire country, most of them experimental stations. [91] Donald R. Waldrip, the court-appointed desegregation administrator for the Cleveland school board, filed a request with Judge Frank Battisti by late August 1981 to cancel the sale of WBOE to the library and instead sell the assets to CPR. These stations were informally known as "Apex" stations, due to the tall height of their transmitter antennas, which were needed because coverage was primarily limited to local line-of-sight distances. [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. The contract was signed by The Cleveland Trust Company, which merged into Society National Bank in 1991; Society merged into KeyBank in 1993. [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. [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. [86], Production of in-school materials continued under coordinator Charles Siegel, with shows like Living today: Survival, It's your decision! These original Apex stations operated under experimental licenses, and like standard broadcasting stations, used AM transmissions. 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!". [18][13][b] The school board's application was accordingly modified on January 31, 1938, from an experimental station to an educational station at 41.5 MHz with 500 watts. [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. And I want to keep this an obit. But this much can be said: WCPN intends to offer a measure of public-affairs programming and news that has been little in evidence in commercial radio here because it is relatively well insulated from the ravages of a ratings-dominated marketplace. Television morning news has learned to mimic morning radio, dishing up traffic, weather, news and entertainment for folks as they dash to work or school. Radio-info.com has a chat board for aircheck collectors. [17] FM experimentations soon revealed significant advantages to Apex, especially with sound quality and resistance to interference from static, including from lightning. 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. [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. [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. [144] Howley and Norris expressed disappointment over failing to find common ground while Norris considered it "regrettable" a station based outside of Cleveland brought back public radio to Cleveland. [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. Early life [ edit] We are much better at destruction than we are at preservation, doesn't it seem that way to you? 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. Memorial services will be held in the memories of all of us who once were Cleveland school children. [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. But then, when you come right down to it, we are rotten at saving worthwhile things, aren't we? 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[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. My people. Mims at WCLV Radio A. brunette, white, black, rich, poor, educated or dullards. So I'll end it the way they taught me to end obits. Our team members worked with leaders from NPR to provide a focused, dedicated news service on WKSU. [86], After a power increase on July 22, 1980,[123] WKSU added Cleveland to its primary coverage area with the city receiving a city-grade signal[143] but the CPL contested an additional power upgrade even as the library's director was not opposed to it. [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. Ideastream began operating WKSU last October in addition to their own Public News/Talk 90.3 WCPN Cleveland, Classical 104.9 WCLV Lorain and WVIZ-TV. [142] The FCC deferred on making a decision between the two groups, owing to both being qualified and politically well-connected, with some accusing the commission of timidity. When news hit that WCPN and WKSU were joining forces, many wondered what would happen to the hosts. 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. 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. [114] Faculty, which had not been paid for nearly a month, appealed to the Ohio Supreme Court after the levy failure for the schools to close so they could file for unemployment benefits. [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. [86] WBOE ended regular programming at midnight on October 7, with station manager Jay Robert Klein and Cleveland journalist Dick Feagler providing a pre-recorded eulogy; in his syndicated newspaper column, Feagler wrote, "cause of deatha stroke of the pen". 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. [193], On October 13, 2000, the license holders for WCPN and WVIZ agreed to a merger of equals, with Wareham becoming chief executive officer and Jensen becoming chief operating officer for the combined entity, ideastream. I applied, and I went in for my interview, and when I walked into the studios it was like this feeling of, 'I'm home. [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. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other Civil Rights leaders disseminate key planning information . [80] One of the station's highest-profile moments came when two students from Glenville and South High, respectively, interviewed Louis Stokes after his 1968 election to the U.S. House, which WBOE later broadcast. [236] Ideastream celebrated WCLV's "60th anniversary", recognizing the date WDGO (95.5 FM) changed their call letters to WCLV,[5] on November 1, 2022. 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