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URL:https://coolcleveland.com/events/attend-cuyahoga-arts-culture-meeting-
 to-express-opposition-to-ideastream-takeover-of-wcsb-fm/
SUMMARY:Attend Cuyahoga Arts & Culture Meeting to Express Opposition to Ide
 astream Takeover of WCSB-FM
DESCRIPTION:\nWed 11/12 @ 4PM\nThe quarterly board meetings of Cuyahoga Art
 s and Culture (CAC)\, the organization tasked with distributing the money 
 from the Cuyahoga County arts tax\, have gotten tamer lately. The controve
 rsy about how little of the money dispersed to nonprofits was reaching art
 ists has died down\, partly due to Assembly for the Arts taking on some of
  that role and partly due\, like\, to fatigue.\nBut now\, another controve
 rsy threatens to ignite the next CAA board meeting taking place at 4PM on 
 Wednesday November 12 on the second floor of the Downtown Cleveland Publi
 c Library Main Branch\, Louis Stokes Wing\, 2nd Floor 325 Superior Avenue\
 , Cleveland\, OH 44114.\nPeople in the music community\, angry about the a
 brupt and secretive transfer by Cleveland State University of the airwaves
  of its eclectic student station WCSB 89.3 FM to Ideastream Public Media t
 o broadcast a 24/7 mainstream jazz format\, have spread the word to show u
 p and challenge CAC’s annual grant to Ideastream. They’re urging CAC t
 o pause approval until Ideastream and CSU agree to return the station to t
 he students.\nCoolCleveland was copied on an articulate and passionate not
 e that Jordan Davis\, a longtime member of Cleveland's cultural community 
 and a former college radio DJ\, sent to Cuyahoga Arts and Culture\, urging
  them to reconsider their upcoming grant to ideastream. His letter is wort
 h your time reading: click here.\n\nWhile CAC is unlikely to nix that gran
 t altogether\, new developments\, including the possibility that CSU and i
 deastream violated public meeting laws\, have cast even worse light on thi
 s transfer. If the erasure of this nearly 50-year-old station\, a situatio
 n that’s attracted national attention and outrage\, has attracted YOUR o
 utrage\, show up — the meeting is public. There’s a public comment per
 iod but you must show up before the meeting starts at 4 and register to ta
 lk. We’ll undoubtedly hear from Happy Dog owner Sean Watterson\, who got
  the ball rolling on the proposal to hold up Ideastream’s funding and wh
 o is one of the best informed people on how college radio is a key player 
 in supporting the local music club scene. Prepare your comments—they’r
 e more effective when you don’t ramble!\nYou can also submit an online c
 omment to CAC here.\n[mappress mapid="4783"]
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