{"id":52236,"date":"2025-11-18T17:54:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/?p=52236"},"modified":"2025-11-18T17:54:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:54:24","slug":"podcast-346-the-fight-for-college-radio-at-cleveland-state-station-wcsb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2025\/11\/podcast-346-the-fight-for-college-radio-at-cleveland-state-station-wcsb\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast #346 &#8211; The Fight for College Radio at Cleveland State Station WCSB"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1788\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-52236-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_survivor\/content.blubrry.com\/radio_survivor\/RS_20251118_WebEdit.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_survivor\/content.blubrry.com\/radio_survivor\/RS_20251118_WebEdit.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_survivor\/content.blubrry.com\/radio_survivor\/RS_20251118_WebEdit.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/radio_survivor\/content.blubrry.com\/radio_survivor\/RS_20251118_WebEdit.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"RS_20251118_WebEdit.mp3\">Download<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"powerpress_link_e\" title=\"Embed\" onclick=\"return powerpress_show_embed('52236-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_embed_box\" id=\"powerpress_embed_52236-podcast\" style=\"display: none;\"><input id=\"powerpress_embed_52236-podcast_t\" type=\"text\" value=\"&lt;iframe width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;30&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/?powerpress_embed=52236-podcast&amp;amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio&quot; title=&quot;Blubrry Podcast Player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" onclick=\"javascript: this.select();\" onfocus=\"javascript: this.select();\" style=\"width: 70%;\" readOnly><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2wB8PCDI4ae4Zy5KQJDnWH\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Radio-Survivor-p1065771\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/feed\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/subscribe-to-podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On October 3, 2025, while World College Radio Day was being celebrated all over the globe, Cleveland State University&#8217;s nearly 50-year old student-run college radio station WCSB 89.3 FM was shut down by administrators.&nbsp;Staff and volunteers were escorted out of the station by police and programming was soon replaced by JazzNEO, a music service produced by public radio group Ideastream.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the ensuing weeks, WCSB participants and supporters have been protesting this move and have organized under the name XCSB.&nbsp;To discuss what happened to the Cleveland State college radio station and what lies ahead for XCSB, two former WCSB student leaders join us on Radio Survivor. Liam Main was the business manager of WCSB and Alison Bomgardner was the most recent General Manager of the station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Show Notes:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2025\/10\/wcsb-student-leaders-and-supporters-fight-against-takeover-of-cleveland-state-universitys-student-run-college-radio-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WCSB Student Leaders and Supporters Fight Against Takeover of Cleveland State University&#8217;s Student-Run Station<\/a> (Radio Survivor)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/xcsb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">XCSB website<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20250927032541\/https:\/\/www.wcsb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Last capture of WCSB-FM website<\/a>, when it was student-run station (Wayback Machine)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.collegeradio.org\/global-college-radio-community-unites-for-xcsb-special-broadcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Global College Radio Community Unites for XCSB Special Broadcast<\/a> (College Radio Foundation)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ideastream.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ideastream Public Media<\/a> website<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ideastream.org\/jazz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JazzNEO<\/a> web page<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/askcbi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">College Broadcasters Inc.<\/a> website<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/2011\/01\/kusf-djs-and-fans-gear-up-to-fight-proposed-college-radio-station-sale-while-ownership-details-for-classical-public-radio-emerge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">KUSF DJs and Fans Gear up to Fight Proposed Radio Station Sale<\/a> (Radio Survivor, January 2011)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Show Credits:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This episode was produced by Jennifer Waits<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hosted by Jennifer Waits and Eric Klein<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Edited by Eric Klein<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On October 3, 2025, while World College Radio Day was being celebrated all over the globe, Cleveland State University&#8217;s nearly 50-year old student-run college radio station WCSB 89.3 FM was shut down by administrators.&nbsp;Staff and volunteers were escorted out of the station by police and programming was soon replaced by JazzNEO, a music service produced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4876,4918,50],"tags":[6365,6,4045,6367,6366,4941,6363,6364,6368],"class_list":["post-52236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-college-radio","category-podcast","category-public-radio","tag-cleveland-state-university","tag-college-radio","tag-featured","tag-ideastream","tag-jazzneo","tag-radio-survivor-podcast","tag-wcsb","tag-wcsb-fm","tag-xcsb"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/saveWCSB_300ppi.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52274,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52236\/revisions\/52274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiosurvivor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}