COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Cleveland State University’s radio station transfer to Ideastream is just the latest Ohio student-radio station to switch hands to nonprofit control.

In recent years , the terrestrial signals for Denison and Wittenberg universities were transferred to public radio operators. Ohio Northern University sold its station and frequency to the Diocese of Toledo. Currently, there are about 18 student-run college radio stations in Ohio.

Since the 1990s, dozens of universities across the country have sold or leased their FM signals, citing budget pressures or “strategic partnerships.”

This includes St. Olaf College’s WCAL, which was sold to Minnesota Public Radio in 2004; University of San Francisco’s KUSF, was abruptly pulled off air in 2011 and sold to the Classical Public

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