WCSB
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| City of license | Cleveland, Ohio |
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| Broadcast area | Greater Cleveland |
| Branding | WCSB 89.3 |
| Slogan | Cleveland's FM Alternative |
| Frequency | 89.3 MHz |
| First air date | May 10, 1976 |
| Format | College/variety |
| ERP | 630 watts |
| HAAT | 62 meters |
| Class | A |
| Facility ID | 65553 |
| Transmitter coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Callsign meaning | W "Cleveland State Broadcasting" |
| Owner | Cleveland State University (Cleveland State University) |
| Webcast | Listen Live |
| Website | wcsb |
WCSB (89.3 FM) – branded WCSB 89.3 – is a non-commercial educational college/variety radio station licensed to Cleveland, Ohio. Owned by Cleveland State University, the station serves Greater Cleveland and is student-run. The WCSB studios are located at Cole Center on the campus of Cleveland State in Downtown Cleveland, while the station transmitter resides atop Rhodes Tower.
History
WCSB began broadcasting on May 1, 1976.[1]
Station Events
WCSB holds an annual party every year on the Saturday following Halloween. The Halloween Masquerade Ball began in 2009 as a 'thank you' to the station's listeners and their undying support. This event has always been held at the Cleveland Public Theater in the Gordon Square district of Cleveland.
Current programming
WCSB airs a wide variety of music, including blues, noise and experimental, electronic jazz as well as traditional jazz, Eastern Bloc punk, outlaw country, heavy metal and grindcore, hip hop, turntablism and acid rap. The station also airs news and information oriented toward many of the ethnic groups represented in Greater Cleveland: Latin, Hispanic, German, Hungarian, Polish, Irish, Macedonian, Arabic, and Slovenian. Weekly public affairs programs focus on a range of topics, from social justice to space exploration.[2]
