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Ideastream

Ideastream is the main public broadcaster in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, serving both Greater Cleveland and much of Northeast Ohio. Its headquarters, newsroom, and radio and television studios are located at the Idea Center in Playhouse Square in Downtown Cleveland. It operates WKSU, the region's main radio news service aligned with NPR, and jazz outlet WCSB marketed as JazzNEO, and owns classical music outlet WCLV, and Cleveland PBS member station WVIZ.

Radio
WKSU WKSU was founded by Kent State University in 1950; Ideastream has operated the station since October 1, 2021, via a public service operating agreement with the university. Originally broadcasting solely to the campus population as a non-commercial educational station, WKSU has been an NPR news and information affiliate since 1973, and is the originating radio station for the City Club of Cleveland's Friday Forum. Licensed to Kent, Ohio, WKSU's signal is rebroadcast full-time over a network of five full-power repeaters and two low-power translators. With a combined 22-county coverage area and potential audience of 3.6 million people, WKSU and its repeater network boast the largest collective footprint for an FM radio station in Ohio. Since 2022, it has also served Lorain County and the western portion of Greater Cleveland via Lorain-licensed WCPN (). The station and its full-power repeater network carry a roster of four HD Radio subchannels: a simulcast of WKSU's analog transmission, folk music via FolkAlley.com, a simulcast of WCLV and an alternate lineup of news and talk programs. WCLV The region's only full-time classical music and jazz outlet, WCLV was founded on November 1, 1962, as a commercial radio station at. A complex asset and intellectual property swap on July 3, 2001, re-established WCLV on as part of a long-term plan initiated by founding owners Robert Conrad and Rich Marschner to preserve the format from being subsumed by ownership consolidation in the radio industry. With station operations moved to the Idea Center in 2010, WCLV was donated to Ideastream in 2011 WCLV has been the originating station for Cleveland Orchestra radio broadcasts since 1965 and for Weekend Radio since 1982. WCLV's current frequency was previously home to WCPN, one of Ideastream's two founding partners and, from 1984 to 2022, competed with WKSU as the region's other NPR member. It is also the successor station to WBOE, which the Cleveland Board of Education operated from 1938 to 1978, one of the first formally licensed non-commercial educational radio stations on the FM dial and one of the first FM stations in Ohio. == Television ==
Television
Ideastream's television service, WVIZ, was founded on February 7, 1965, as the 100th public television station in the United States. WVIZ at launch boasted the first female general manager of a major-market television station in the United States. Betty Cope, who played an active role in the station's formation and original focus towards educational television programming for school districts and telecourses for area colleges; WVIZ gradually adopted the conventional PBS Kids and PBS lineups starting in the early 1990s. Through WVIZ, Ideastream jointly operates and manages The Ohio Channel (which is carried on a WVIZ subchannel) and the Ohio Public Radio and Television Statehouse News Bureau. == See also ==
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