CLEVELAND, Ohio— On Oct. 3, the familiar buzz of WCSB 89.3 FM at Cleveland State University gave way to the smooth jazz sounds of Ideastream Public Media’s JazzNEO .

In an instant, on national College Radio Day , nearly 50 years of student- and community-run programming—not to mention broadcast legacy—vanished from Cleveland’s airwaves.

In a hasty online meeting, university president Laura Bloomberg and Tachelle Banks, vice president of student belonging, revealed a “mutual decision” between CSU and Ideastream to the WCSB community.

There was little explanation, no warning and no time for questions.

How does one get a front-row seat for such a bombshell? Well, as a CSU alumnus and associate programmer of WCSB for almost four years — my DJ handle-anagram-alias “Pietrek Archaen” ha

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