College Radio Never Graduates
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When I started music school at the humble Cleveland State University, there weren't many extracuricular cultural offerings that interested me. After graduating with a Bachelor's of Music in 2021, the opportunity to continue with graduate school for Music Composition. The deciding factor was my acceptance to be a programmer WCSB 89.3 FM. Now, this was also the year of the great lockdown, and morale was already at a low point for this otherwise relatively archaeic institution. In any case, I went on to train with Dr. Tom Orange that summer, and joined a skeleton crew of fellow diverse student programmers. My graduate school experience was absoutely shaped by WCSB, and we made remarkable progress with bringing in new student interest. It felt like reviving a uniquely important place. I arguably learned more about music at the radio station than in the classrooms. I was the General Manager for about 2 years and it proved to be a compass.
We also pulled a college prank on the city by renting a billboard for Radiothon week that had a giant asshole hidden like our logo.
I was involved with the station from 2021-2025 (and even stayed on the monthly jazz rotation) until we were suddenly and forcibly removed from the campus in October '25. The website was also taken down abruptly, thank goodness for the Wayback Machine to get these screen captures.
For more info about the current state of independent, freeform, and community radio in Cleveland, OH, you can visit xcsb.org
The archive my radio programs is available here.
WCSB-FM 89.3 Launches Annual Radiothon Donation Drive, Nov. 2022