I’m moving this from the comments to a post. Thanks to Robert Conrad of WCLV:
WCLV TO MOVE FACILITIES TO THE IDEA CENTER ON PLAYHOUSE SQUARE IN DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND
It was announced on Tuesday, August 10, 2010, that WCLV 104.9, northeast Ohio’s classical music station, will be moving its studios and offices from the current Radio Ranch location in Warrensville Heights to the Idea Center on Playhouse Square in downtown Cleveland, the home of ideastream, Cleveland’s public broadcasters WVIZ/PBS and 90.3 WCPN FM.
WCLV will be sharing space, currently not occupied in the ideastream facilities, with OneCommunity, northeast Ohio’s nonprofit broadband network, which will establish offices and work area for HealthNet , which connects rural and urban healthcare centers.
By co-locating, WCLV and the ideastream stations will be able to collaborate on programs and services designed to strengthen current efforts and foster new concepts. As opportunities are identified, the organizations will look for ways to work more effectively by partnering with one another.
The moves are funded by over $1.6 million in contributions from individuals, corporations and foundations. Additional contributions are being sought, and financing has been secured to cover the estimated $2.3 million cost of the development.
Work has begun and is expected to continue through the end of the calendar year. The architectural firm of Westlake, Reed and Leskosky and Turner Construction, who both worked on the original development of Idea Center at Playhouse Square, are again involved in this development.
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The construction of Cleveland classical station WCLV 104.9’s new facilities is nearing completion at the Idea Center on Playhouse Square. The station will begin its move from Radio Ranch in Warrensville Heights the week of December 6th. Engineers say that the switch over of air programming will take place at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, December 8th.
Once settled at the Idea Center, the home of Cleveland’s public broadcasters WVIZ TV and WCPN FM, WCLV will be able to take advantage of some of ideastream’s facilities, such as the KeyBank and Westfield performance studios. Several live music programs are on the drawing board.
Note that WCLV, which celebrates 50 years in 2012, is the only commercial station in the Cleveland area that hasn’t changed its format or call letters in this period
WCLV UPDATE: WCLV has completed its move from Radio Ranch in the Cleveland suburbs to the cultural whirlpool that is the Idea Center on Play House Square in downtown Cleveland. Now neighbors and partners with the Cleveland public broadcasters – ideastream’s WVIZ TV and WCPN, the synergy from the new location is beginning to play out. On January 16th, WCLV and WCPN did a live simulcast of The Cleveland Orchestra’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Concert from Severane Hall. On February 1st, WCLV will broadcast live the Broadway Buzz pre-show feature on “South Pacific” which will orginate in ideastream’s Westfield audience studio.
And examples of the logistics of two stations being in the same location, Chris Wilkins, conductor of the Akron Symphony, came to WCPN for an interview, and then simply went upstairs to WCLV for an additional interview. And WVIZ-WCPN, on occasion, borrows classical CDs from WCLV’s
20,000 plus music library for special production purposes.
Great news, Robert–congratulations! My first taste of Classical Radio was WCLV’s fine programming in the glad era of George Szell…
-RR
WCLV,Cleveland’s classical broadcaster, a commercial station and not a public station, has joined the campaign to fight the zeroing-out by the House of Representatives of federal funding for public broadcasting. The station has posted an information page on its website – http://www.wclv.com – and is running announcements urging its listeners to write their Representatives and Senators.