[k] Former WERE operations manager Leonard Will was hired as general manager, promising extensive local news coverage to augment NPR offerings. Cleveland's morning-radio hosts give us a peek behind the scenes 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. [229], With this arrangement, a realignment of formats, stations and call signs took place on March 28, 2022. [86] The school board held an auction for the station's license, with the minimum bid set at $200,000,[91] and a stipulation that the winner would be responsible for renewing the station's license. Overnights feature jazz music locally hosted with Dan Polletta and John Simna. [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. [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. [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. "[189] As WCPN marked its tenth anniversary, Jensen reflected on WBOE's demise from outside forces as proof that WCPN's future could never be fully guaranteed. [62] WBOE and WERE-FM also collaborated for an experimental stereophonic sound broadcast over two Sunday nights in April 1959. Northeast Ohio NPR programming shifts from WCPN to WKSU, classical You want any simpler than that? 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[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. [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. Or, you can call or write to us: Ideastream Public Media. Amanda Rabinowitz will move to hosting All Things Considered on weeknights, a move that interests her personally and professionally. [227] This agreement had its genesis in a $100,000 CPB grant[228] jointly awarded to WKSU and Ideastream on September 1, 2020, to help expand public media service in Northeast Ohio and encourage collaboration between both entities. [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. [26] The reassigned Apex band was also still prone to extreme skywave propagation, with WBOE receiving reception reports throughout the western and southwestern U.S. and as far as England. What's happening with the schedule changes? Dutchman" in one of my classes. [109] Presiding over the case, U.S. District Judge Frank J. Battisti ruled on August 31, 1976, that both the local and state boards of education were guilty of deliberately inducing segregation practices,[110][111] issuing the first of what would become 4,000 court orders over the next six years. [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. Amy Eddings will be the host of Morning Edition on WKSU, the show shes hosted on WCPN for five years. Mapcarta, the open map. My people. and more.. [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. Former radio personality Doug Allen is a jingle archivist and now maintains Jinglefreaks.com, where his growing collection of radio jingles is available online. Program & Host Information | Ideastream Public Media - WCPN And I want to keep this an obit. The clear, distinct voice of a teacher, carefully selected for her radio personality, for her success as a classroom teacher, and for her ability to sense the reaction of the unseen hundreds she now instructs, is speaking. Likewise, WCLE moved from Cleveland to Akron in 1945. [176] That attempt was unsuccessful with all existing board members retained. WCLV | Cleveland OH - Facebook David C. Linton Program Director. [187] A donation from the Reinberger Foundation in 1994 allowed WCPN to purchase a remote truck for live broadcasts. Enjoy free WiFi, free parking, and breakfast. Licensed to Akron, Ohio, when WBOE signed on, WJW moved to Cleveland in 1943. [97] British classical pianist Clive Lythgoe, who already had a nationally distributed television program originating from WVIZ, hosted similar radio shows over both WBOE and WCLV (95.5 FM). [241], WCLV's HD2 digital subchannel rebroadcasts the analog signal of WKSU. brunette, white, black, rich, poor, educated or dullards. [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. We are much better at destruction than we are at preservation, doesn't it seem that way to you? Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other Civil Rights leaders disseminate key planning information . [11] During the WTAM partnership, the school programs became more sophisticated, including a 43-part series on literacy, geared towards specific age groups from elementary to high school. 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. 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. Chuck had already been a success in radio, working in San Bernardino at KMEN, among many other stations. [135][91] The Cleveland Board of Education filed to renew WBOE's license on July 11, 1979,[136] which the FCC turned down on June 16, 1981, designating for hearing CPR and CPL's applications[137] as mutually exclusive. The June 28, 1973, Cleveland Board of Education meeting authorized contracts to move WBOE's studios from the Board of Education Building to the Woodhill-Quincy Administration building on the city's east side[83] originally built for the National Castings Company in 1921. [16] Announced in October 1937, the new allocations resulted in a dedicated band for Apex stations consisting of 75 channels with 40 kHz separations, and spanning from 41.0243.98 MHz. [232] Two of WCPN's three remaining ethnic programsThe Hungarian Program and The Polish Programwere retained and moved to WKSU's HD4 subchannel. [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. [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. [132][91] CPR chairman Brad Norris explained the filing was within the bounds of the FCC's 30-day period for public comment set aside for radio station transactions. Thank Goodness for Cleveland Radio! - moderncleveland.com Further musing over WBOE's demise, Feagler wrote: despite what you may have read in the newspaper, there are no firm plans afoot right now to save (WBOE). 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. [157], The Woodhill-Quincy Administration building remained under Cleveland Metropolitan School District ownership after WBOE's closure and dissolution, but gradually fell into disuse and neglect. [242][233] WVIZ's 25.8 subchannel rebroadcasts WCLV in an audio-only format.[243]. [162] WGAR (1220 AM), by then a country outlet, donated its entire jazz record collection to the station. [43] Additional "preview" programming was sometimes transmitted for teachers during after-school hours, introducing any forthcoming series and to familiarize themselves with course material and the presenters. WCLV is simulcast on the HD3 signals of WKSU and its full-power repeater network, but with Classical 24 programming in overnights in place of WCLV's jazz programming. Stay at this business-friendly hotel in Bellerive-sur-Allier. [87] The delays also impacted the launch of the Cleveland Radio Reading Service (CRRS): originally intending to broadcast over a 67 kHz Subsidiary Communications Authorization (SCA) subchannel of WBOE, the CRRS had to contract with WXEN[88] until WBOE's SCA subchannel was activated in July 1977. These original Apex stations operated under experimental licenses, and like standard broadcasting stations, used AM transmissions. English; [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. [160] WCPN additionally became a sponsor for Cuyahoga Community College's annual JazzFest starting in 1985. [218] A native of Brunswick,[216] Eddings also began involvement with The Downtowner, a weekly WCPN-produced podcast devoted to downtown Cleveland's revival. [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. WCLV | Ideastream Public Media The Quiet Hour with Rob Grier Evgeny Kissin: Beethoven - Ludwig van Beethoven Adagio from Piano Sonata No. [178], Cleveland mayor George Voinovich expressed outrage over the cancellations and called on an investigation by the FCC[179] while Senator Howard Metzenbaum delayed passage of a budget bill for NPR unless WCPN restored the ethnic fare, but Jensen vowed not to reverse course and received moral support from management at other public radio stations. [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. I [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. [15] The CRRS broadcasts were suspended due to a lack of funding on May 1, 1982, with WBOE going silent completely. 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. WCLV's studios are located at Playhouse Square in Downtown Cleveland with the transmitter residing in the Cleveland suburb of Parma. A lot! [93] and The Plain Dealer Green Thumb Club[94][95] among the offerings. WCLV, northeast Ohio's classical radio station since 1962, is dedicated to the preservation of classical music on the radio in the greater Cleveland area. 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. [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. By the time you write the obit, bitterness is a day late and a dollar short. [158][84] The district agreed to demolish the building in 2010 as part of a larger slate of 25 demolitions throughout the city.[159]. [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. Of Note is Ideastream Public Medias classical music newsletter curated for you by WCLVhosts. Early life [ edit] We will continue to offer a variety of programs on our digital channels. [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. WCLV (90.3 FM) is a non-commercial educational radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio, carrying a combined fine art/classical music and jazz format. [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. ', Amy Eddings, former WNYC-FM personality, on joining WCPN in 2017[216]. [57], Owing to educational radio's effectiveness being reduced by television, work slowly began in the early 1970s to revamp WBOE. [47], Saul Carson, writing for The New Republic, called WBOE "a model for the country" and "the most exciting broadcasting job being done". [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. [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. [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. School districts that did not operate stations often did not have radio sets in their schools, while those that did either had issues with picking up stations, coordinating their classes with programs offered, or finding said programs to vary significantly in quality; Catholic University of America professor Josh Sheppard would later explain, "if you talk to old practitioners in public broadcasting, they actually use 'educational radio' as a pejorative. [163] A kick-off party/fundraiser billed "Cleveland's Big Turn-On" with 1,200 people in attendance was held on September 8, 1984, at WCPN's new studios in the Cleveland Centre building. [79] One 1964 series directed toward junior high students centered around communism and life in Soviet Russia in both an economic and historical context. 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. [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. We have been working since then to bring our organizations together, merge our programming schedules, expand reporting and make other changes to expand our service in Northeast Ohio. [10] Contracting with WHK in 1929, the school system purchased 15-minute blocks of airtime at reduced rates, focusing on specific subjects like arithmetic, music and geography; two Cleveland schools were selected for this experiment, with their existing public address system connected to WHK's signal. From the birth of rock 'n' roll in the 1950s through just about the end of the 20th Century, Cleveland was a great town for radio. Endo the Horse is Voted Pet News of the Week! Jeff St. Clair, who previously hosted All Things Considered on WKSU will host midday newscasts as we expand that service. [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. Classroom teachers have tuned in at the proper hour and from the loudspeaker their pupils might hear: "Good morning, children. [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. [170] Dick Feagler co-hosted a bi-weekly interview program at launch. 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". [177] WCPN would cancel all ethnic programming outright on July 15, 1988, replacing the shows with jazz music. [70] Earlier in 1953, the Board of Education set aside $200,000 (equivalent to $2.03million in 2021) for possible investment into a television station, committing to investigate the necessary costs. [120] The school board retained former NPR president Lee Frischknecht to help find ways to keep WBOE functional; Frischknecht made inquiries to both CPR and WVIZ as potential interim operators[90] and continued to study options when the station was ordered closed.[86]. John Perry, WKSU general manager, on teaming up with WCPN to book a 1985 Garrison Keillor appearance[160]. [213] Sentiment among former personnel was critical toward ideastream placing an emphasis on television over radio; Kit Jensen disputed this, saying that the station's audience and listener support base had both grown substantially, and that issues to secure funding were preventing staff vacancies from being filled. Conrad of Radio Seaway, Inc., immediately changed the call letters to WCLV, broadcasting at 95.5 megacycles. Our team members worked with leaders from NPR to provide a focused, dedicated news service on WKSU. "[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. [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. [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. Phone: 216-916-6100. 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 . Complete HD schedules are available here. Friends may call, but it really won't do much good. [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. [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. [82] Existing educational stations eventually moved away from in-school programming and focused on educational fare for a general audience, seen as a developmental influence for public radio in the present day. [154] CPR initially planned for WCPN to sign on by the summer of 1983, but multiple issues, including securing studio facilities, interference from the Ohio Bell Building[155] and NPR facing a financial crisis all delayed the relaunch until the spring of 1984, with both the Gund Foundation and Cleveland Foundation providing financial support. Southern Illinois University professor Richard Swerdlin considered educational radio in 1967 to be an inexpensive and overlooked alternative to television, citing WBOE as one of several "outstanding" stations in the field. [183] The Ohio State Legislature drafted their 1989 state budget with no funding towards WCPN but to Cleveland State University, which was to direct the funds to the station via a partnership; this was arranged to prevent a "free-for-all" with other Ohio public broadcasters. Weekdays from midnight to 6 a.m. on WCLV will be hosted by radio veteran and jazz aficionado Dan Polletta. [13] Newscasts from all four networks were also rebroadcast, along with locally originated programs from the stations if they were of educational interest. Ray Cobb Underwriting Sales Representative. Kerwin D. Sims Membership Director. [104] WBOE's visibility in the market remained imperceptible, however, failing to attract more than one percent of listeners in area Arbitron ratings.[86]. [39] WBOE's initial assignment on the new FM "high" band was for 90.1 MHz, however a subsequent reallocation in the fall of 1947 moved the station to 90.3 MHz. 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. Interment? [129][j] CPL held the winning bid of $205,000 (equivalent to $765,390 in 2021)[128] and intended to relaunch the station as WCPL by year's end[127][130] with paperwork transferring the license filed with the FCC,[131] but prior to consummation, WBOE's license was discovered to have expired[128] on October 1, 1979. [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. 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.
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