NPR Hourly Newscast . WCPN traditionally dates its start to September 8, 1984,[2] when it began regular operation under its current broadcast license and call sign.
The group considered WBOE's limited NPR programming to be insufficient, and after reviewing various options concluded that the only viable solution was to assume control of WBOE and replace its school-oriented programming. [22] On January 1, 1949, a modified license authorized WBOE to broadcast solely on 90.3 MHz, increasing its transmitter power to 3,000 watts, with an effective radiated power (ERP) of 10,000 watts. This text will be replaced with a player. [45][46] WCLV's owners, Radio Seaway, donated the station to Ideastream in 2011.
[29] In his Akron Beacon Journal column the following Wednesday, Feagler noted that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) was empowered to award a $5 million (USD) grant to any deserving NPR member station that had a plan to upgrade local program offerings, while the Cleveland Board of Education had hired Lee Frischknecht—the former president of NPR—to find ways to keep WBOE functional; Frischknecht made inquires to both Cleveland Public Radio and to WVIZ as possible groups that could assume operational control of the station. Examples of educational programs for in-school use included What You See Is What You Get, a social studies/economics program, and the English-language program Fun From The Dictionary.
[4] Until December 1976, WBOE's programming was primarily instructional programming intended for Cleveland school classrooms. A request to do this was approved by the Cleveland Board of Education during the regular Board meeting of January 20, 1958. Anna Huntsman, WCPN; Contact tracing is vital in helping to stop the spread of the coronavirus.
In 2001, WCPN merged operations with WVIZ, the PBS member station for Cleveland, to form a non-profit organization named Ideastream.
The HD2 digital subchannel currently airs classical music via a simulcast of WCPN sister station WCLV/Lorain. More Stations. However, at the time the Apex band was established the FCC noted that "The Commission at an early date will consider carefully the needs and requirements for high-frequency broadcast stations using both conventional [AM] modulation and frequency modulation".
The station later moved to the sixth floor of the Board of Education Building on East 6th Street. [15][16] In July 1946 the FCC directed that FM stations currently operating on 42-44 MHz would have to move to new frequencies by the end of the year,[17] and WBOE was reassigned to 44.3 MHz.
These stations were informally known as "Apex" stations, due to the tall height of their transmitter antennas, which were needed because coverage was primarily limited to local line-of-sight distances. In News, 90.3 WCPN's expanded staff now produces: Extensive local stories in the morning Live, local interviews with local newsmakers Live, off-site coverage of significant events Live follow-up of major stories Live, local afternoon business newscasts More in-depth series coverage of community issues such as Accents and Making Change. The "working poor" are people who have a job - maybe even several - yet are barely scraping by. [53], For the Ravena, New York, radio station which held the WBOE call sign from 2006 to 2007, see. [32] Due to the way this arrangement was handled, the FCC dismissed the Cleveland Board of Education's license renewal application on October 18, 1982, officially deleting WBOE's license,[33] and concurrently issued Cleveland Public Radio a construction permit for WBOE's replacement,[34] which on June 20, 1983 was assigned the call letters WCPN. Although many NPR stations featured classical music, in Cleveland WCLV (95.5 FM) already had a classical format, so WCPN decided to adopt a jazz music format. This text will be replaced with a player.
ideastream's Brian Bull shares these profiles in the short, National Murrow Award-winning series The Working Poor.
[44] The two stations moved to new facilities in downtown Cleveland at Playhouse Square—dubbed the Idea Center—in the fall of 2005, and were joined by WCLV (104.9 FM) in 2010.
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[32] While the Cleveland Board of Education filed a license renewal application for WBOE on July 11, 1979,[33] Cleveland Public Radio decided to contest WBOE's transfer to the library, filing a competing application on October 17, 1979 to operate a station on 90.3 MHz. 90.3 WCPN . [12] This new assignment also resulted in the elimination of the Apex band, and the Apex stations were informed that they needed to either go silent or convert to FM.[13]. Digital Sound. Contact tracing is vital in helping to stop the spread of the coronavirus. [41] As part of the compromise, Cleveland Public Radio also agreed to provide airtime for school board news and to provide vocational training for students, and would air programming provided by Cuyahoga Community College. [25] The plan was to move the station from its long-time home in the main Board of Education building in the center of the City of Cleveland to the East side of the city, on Quincy Avenue, near E. 105th street. NPR Hourly Newscast . At first the station operated only during school hours, and in 1939 was broadcasting instructional material for students from kindergarten to high school for seven hours from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.[9], In mid-1939 WBOE experimented with facsimile transmissions sent outside of regular programming hours, for distributing printed materials, including such things as lesson instructions, announcements and maps.
Since WKSU concentrates on a classical music format and since WCLV also broadcasts a classical music format, WCPN's programming in this respect is unique to the Cleveland market.
In October 1937, the FCC announced a sweeping allocation of frequency assignments that included a band for Apex stations, consisting of 75 channels with 40 kHz separations, and spanning from 41.02 to 43.98 MHz. In its final years of operation, WBOE's staff included station manager Jay Robert Klein (whose five-minute weekly feature You and Your Wheels featured up-to-date information about automobiles and discussed issues pertaining to automobile transportation); coordinator Charles Siegel (who produced shows like Cavities Don't Care and The Ins and Outs of Gardening); Karl Johnson, the producer–host of the morning-drive show Thank Goodness, It's (name of day) which aired Monday–Friday from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m.; senior high school programmer Cecilia Evans, who was an award-winning Cleveland broadcaster providing theater reviews for WBOE and commercial station WERE (1300 AM); Tom Altenbernd, who was the junior high school programmer; and elementary programmer Ervine Jaworski.
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In the absence of WBOE, Kent State University's WKSU-FM, which carried NPR programming beginning in 1973,[36] became the de facto sole NPR member in northeast Ohio, while Cleveland earned a dubious distinction as being the only major-market city in the United States without a designated public radio outlet. A transmitter was donated by FM's inventor, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and on February 3, 1941 WBOE became the first educational FM station, still maintaining a schedule of seven hours of programming from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on school days. On March 5, 1958, a "sincere thank you" letter for the facilities and "excellent cooperation received by Mr. Leo Battin and his fine staff" at WBOE was sent to the Board of Education by Richard M. Klaus, Vice President and General Manager of radio station WERE.[23]. [14] At the time FM broadcasting was in its infancy and only about a dozen FM stations were on the air in the entire country, most of them experimental stations. The June 28, 1973 Cleveland Board of Education meeting authorized "contracts for furnishings and delivering equipment for expansion and relocation of radio station WBOE". WCPN's daytime program has a heavy emphasis on news and informational programming, most of it originating with NPR, such as Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Car Talk. "Public Radio Here At Last" by Joe Frelik. At the same time, 90.3 WCPN intensified its on-air promotion of upcoming news stories and programming. [30] Plans were made for the station to be moved from WBOE's eastside Cleveland studios to the main library downtown, with the intention to change the call letters to WCPL, for Cleveland Public Library.
[4] However, while monitoring the first group of Apex stations assignments, the FCC realized that, due to the strengthening of the ionosphere during periods of high solar activity, at times the lower end of the VHF frequencies would produce strong, and undesirable, skywave signals that were heard as far way as Australia.
The WCPN studios are located at Playhouse Square in Downtown Cleveland, with a transmitter site in the Cleveland suburb of Parma. In May 1940, the FCC decided to authorize an FM broadcast band, effective January 1, 1941, operating on 40 channels spanning 42–50 MHz, with the first five channels reserved for educational stations. Cleveland Board of Education's annual "Proceedings of the Board of Education". WBOE's non-commercial license was still active, and in May 1979 the school board organized an auction to sell the station, with the minimum bid set at $200,000.
90.3 WCPN has undertaken an intensive effort to expand service to its listeners through the station's current long-term strategic plan, adopted in January 1998. It was estimated by WBOE's station manager at the time that this technical issue delayed the debut of NPR in the Cleveland market by over a year.
This series featured interviews conducted by WBOE's best known broadcaster, Cecilia Evans. Full-time board operators and production personnel were Ted Mazurowski and Richard Shenker. The move occurred in 1974.
[50], Since WCPN's establishment, programming on weekend evenings has consisted of hour-long blocks with music and discussion related to a specific ethnic group or culture—British and Irish, German, Latin, Polish, Slovak, Slovenian, and Ukrainian—which were added in as a conditional requirement for WCPN to broadcast.
[51][52] In recent years, the programming has been reduced to four hours on Sunday evenings.