Cleveland State University’s radio station, WCSB, will stop airing student-run programming and become a jazz station under a new agreement with Ideastream Public Media.

The university will maintain the station’s Federal Communications Commission license and WCSB will keep its call letters. Ideastream is now in charge of all programming decisions at the new home of JazzNEO, formerly a station available only by streaming or high definition radio.

The Boards of Trustees at both Ideastream and CSU voted to approve the agreement Friday morning.

WCSB started operating out of the university in 1975, and has offered a wide variety of

programs run by students and alumni ranging from goth to reggae, jazz to classical, hip-

hop and ethnic shows, as well as a variety of talk programming.

Liam Ma

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