Congrats to WCLV

… and Happy New Year to all of our friends in classical radio! From Robert Conrad: Well, WCLV has crossed the Rubicon and is now the nation’s newest public radio station. It happened at Midnight on New Year’s Day, on which we re-broadcast the eleven hour November 1st WCLV at 50 live broadcasts of performances by area musical groups, utilizing all three of the ideastream studios in a round robin sequence. Informal fund raising has been steady and above expectations. And we do our first official extended fund raiser in February. My … Continue Reading

WCLV Goes Non-Commercial

WCLV is joining the public radio community after 50  years of being a commercial station.  Here’s the press release: WCLV TO BECOME NONCOMMERICAL IN JANUARY September 26, 2012 –CLEVELAND WCLV 104.9FM,Northeastern Ohio’s Classical Music station, will begin operating as a noncommercial station onJanuary 1, 2013. The audience will continue to enjoy familiar WCLV programming with familiar voices presenting the greatest music of the past five hundred years and the rich arts and cultural resources of today. With the transition, WCLV is following commercial classical music radio stations in New York City, Boston and … Continue Reading

Happy Birthday to WCLV, WNMU, and WSCL

I think there are some 700 U.S. stations that play classical music.  Am I opening a can of worms by sending a birthday card to three of them? Nov. 1, 2012 is the actual birthday of WCLV in Cleveland, long known as one of our legacy stations and as the distributor of many wonderful shows over the years, including Adventures in Good Music with Karl Haas that many of us grew up on.  Robert Conrad manages the station. 2012 is also the birthday of WNMU in Marquette, Michigan, where our colleague Stan Wright … Continue Reading

News from WCLV

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.

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