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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. 

Public Comment will resume at the Jan. 12, 2026 Council meeting.

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WCSB Radio's silent takeover by IdeaStream
The fabric of the Cleveland arts and culture scene is underwritten by a deep musicality. The underground forms the infrastructure for the mainstream. WCSB is an important part of what makes Cleveland cool in that undeniable but indefinable way.

I truly don't think people understand how much cultural and arts infrastructure WCSB provided to the community. And not just that, but WCSB provided community to people who otherwise may have difficulty accessing community.
As a terrestrial radio station with extremely diverse programming, WCSB was a Cleveland organization that exemplified accessibility and inclusivity.
The citizens most likely to not have Internet access in their homes, or have computers or smart phones, are poor people and disabled people. A terrestrial radio station is so important!

As Cleveland develops, I had hoped we could side-step some of the problems of conformity. I don't think doing the same thing that every other city is doing is good for us. We're worth doing better! We are worth not making the same mistakes other cities may have made with their irreplaceable FM cultural and arts jewels. I want better for us than to just throw away 50 years of community and student led programming for 1000 add slots and a board seat for the president of CSU!

I'm also extremely dismayed that a public university and a public media company did not seek any public comment or feedback before finalizing this very large and consequential deal.

WCSB is very important to me personally.
Listening to good music that I've never heard before is one of the greatest joys of my life! For over 30 years WCSB has done it for me!

WCSB is the radio station I listened to the most. I buy inexpensive old cars so I only have the radio in them.

While I didn't attend CSU, the college or university I chose to attend having a cool radio station was a "dealbreaker" for me. Back then, I simply wouldn't apply to any college or university that didn't have a student-led radio station. And I feel like, growing up in Euclid, a suburb of Cleveland, WCSB may be partly responsible for that, lol. But I'm so thankful that WCSB set that expectation for me!

Just last month I heard a band from Zimbabwe that I had never heard before on a WCSB radio show. I liked them, and they were playing at the Beachland the next week, so I went to see them! I don't want to be deprived of that type of immediate joy!!! And I don't want to deprive artists of revenue!

I want full return of WCSB FM radio station to the students and to the community. Students built WCSB starting 50 years ago. It simply wasn’t CSU's to give away, not really.



As a local Realtor I believe that WCSB is a historical institution that adds immeasurable value to Cleveland and Cleveland communities and it deserves our action to protect it. Thanks for your time!
Kate Andrews
Browns settlement
I really do not care if the Browns go to Brookpark. What I want is NONE of my taxpayer money to be used for any aspects of the new dome. The settlement is very weak - should have been a lot more $. Bibb got taken to the cleaners.

Cheryl Overby
Ideastream hostile takeover of public airwaves
I urge the Council to pass Kris Harsh’s resolution to stand with the students and community!
Steve Lull
WCSB/Ideastream
For almost 50 years, WCSB was an important part of the cultural landscape of Northeast Ohio with it's unique, eclectic programming. This disappeared overnight with no input from stakeholders, both student and community. The replacement programming, NEOJazz was, and is, still available online, as well as with HD Radios, whereas the previous 24 hour independent, original programming has disappeared overnight. I am hopeful that the Council can weigh in support of returning the programming in some way, shape, or form.
Peter London
WCSB/ Cleveland State University
I'm absolutely disgusted and ashamed that the college I attended callously, and without warning, gave away the FCC license, call letters and premises of the student led radio station to Ideastream with no discussion, no compromise and no concern for members of the community that were listeners. This was a move that does not benefit students or the community in any significant way. This should never have happened.
Laura Vajdich
WCSB
As City Council members, this is your opportunity to fight for the people you claim to represent. I'm sure you think you're doing that every day, but as many of us realize, you're not in fact on our side in the majority of instances. This is the time to show that you both hear and understand what the people desire, instead of aligning your selves with the moneyed interests. The reasons the people of Cleveland and the surrounding areas, and indeed many people from around the country and world, love WCSB so much are deep and varied. But suffice it to say that we had one of the rarest cultural assets in the world frankly, and that is not a statement I make lightly. This arrangement for Ideastream to take over the airwaves of WCSB in such a secretive and hostile way by two individuals who are neither from Cleveland, nor have either of them even listened the the station that they have deemed unworthy of existence, cannot be tolerated. CSU is publicly funded institution, and as such should be beholden to the public and not a board of people so out of touch that they would allow this to happen. Some deep changes need to be made in returning this country to it's people and not it's corporations, and this is a powerful place to start this movement. You as Council members have the ability to affect this change, and thereby begin to correct course for the city and it's people. Do the right thing, delve deep into this matter, and do the right thing for the people you represent. We are your board, and we demand it.
Erin Lung
Independent media in cleveland.
Please give WCSB back to the students. We need independent voices of our community to share ideas and deliver news that is truly free from oversight of big corporate interests. Lastly WCSB plays the best and most diverse music on the entire radio dial.
Where else can you listen to Frank Zappa followed by Fiona Apple! Help save college radio stations in the rock and roll capital. Thank you.
BTW I also love Ideastream
Let's make room for both.
Phil Strube
Phil Strube
The takeover and dissolution of WCSB student run, college radio.
To Whom It May Concern:
WCSB, Cleveland State University’s student run, college radio station has been an asset to the university as an institution, the students and the community of listeners far and wide for over fifty years. As an Alumna of CSU, I’ve always been proud of and tuned in to our unique and culturally diverse college radio station. There is always something interesting to hear on WCSB. It is a great opportunity for students and community to curate and create, and practice. It is a priceless cultural icon in Cleveland. This is a heartbreaking loss. Please consider saving WCSB and reinstating it in its former state.
Sincerely,
Sally J. Hudak
Sally Hudak
WCSB
The recent agreement between CSU ID stream is being touted as a “win” for public media, Cleveland, and the community; this is a laughably, arrogant perspective, and could not be further from the truth. How can CSU and Dr. Bloomberg claim to support free speech and diversity of thought, while simultaneously destroying the most diverse radio station in Northeast Ohio? To destroy 50 years of history and culture in favor of playing ONE genre of music, 27/7 is clearly NOT a move made in the interest of diversity. WCSB was a lifeline for local immigrant communities – where else could these families and their communities listen to music and talk programming in their native tongue? Where else could you listen to experimental world music, or obscure metal subgenres, or the history of Black music and art? It is (or should be) plainly obvious to city council and the wider community what a grave loss this is. I understand that not everyone loved everything that WCSB played – but WCSB offered SOMETHING for EVERYONE. To now only play one single genre of music will limit the reach and influence that the station once had, and it will now feel alien and inauthentic to most — and from a station that was once a bridge across communities, cultures, and people. Ideastream has promised to offer internship opportunities to students, but no low-level internship could EVER provide the wealth of experience and responsibility that was already being provided to students through WCSB. Dr. Bloomberg has increasingly made CSU hostile towards and inaccessible for local students, who are being priced out of what used to be a quality education and denied the opportunity and breadth of experience CSU used to offer. This is yet another terrible and short-sighted decision that will not benefit ANYONE. The outrage from the community — made up of current students, university and station alumni, and listeners from Northeast Ohio and around the globe — is more than justified. Listen to us. I trust city council to see how egregious this decision is, how damaging this decision, and I know that you know in your heart that this move from CSU and Ideastream was WRONG. I implore you to pass this resolution and stand on the side of free speech and diversity.
Hannah Stonerock
WCSB
As a listener of WCSB since its inception, and as a life long resident of Northeast Ohio, I am appalled at CSUs deal with Ideastream! WCSB and its diversified and eclectic programming as been a staple of our region for 50 years. To have it turned off with no warning or reasoning is an insult to generations of listeners. Make CSU give back WCSB to its rightful owners, the listeners and student programmers and DJs!
Andrew Smoley