Re: WCLV-FM Cleveland Makes Frequency Switch and Courageously Accepts Criticism

[Norm Rosen <inorm99@earthlink.net>]

Having lived in  NE Ohio ( I went to Hiram College which is 35 miles SE of Cleveland)

I can tell firsthand that by placing the only commercial Classical outlet  ( WCLV) on
a Class A in Lorain, is the equivalent of putting WCRB

on WBOQ, literally the same frequency and market coverage, I might add.


To add insult to injury, most of WCLV's listeners are in Cleveland's Eastern suburbs
such as Shaker Heights,Coventry, Pepper Pike, and Gates Mills, as well

as the East side of Cleveland where the city's academia resides.

Lorain is 25 miles WSW of Cleveland.

This move makes no sense



Laurence Glavin wrote:

> Even though WCLV-FM 104.9 (formerly 95.5) is many miles away in
> Cleveland, some of you may be aware that they announced the unusual move
> of trading a full-power signal for a "Class A" last year to keep classical alive
> in the market. (This happened in Portland, ME, where the predecessor of
> today's 106.3 in Scarborough switched from 97.9 to 106.3.)
> For a long time, WCLV's website (www.wclv.com) maintained a Forum...
>
> [a sidebar: Extremely dumbed-down pseudo-classical WCRB did so at one time
> too and one day I posted a missive called "Contented Clevelanders"...
> wherein I noted that they received only a few postings a day, mostly
> positive, while WCRB.com was barraged with complaints about its programming
> not only by me I might add]
>
> ...but just before the frequency switch, WCLV's Forum disappeared, I surmised
> forever.  Now WCLV is on the weaker frequency and the Forum is back, and
> the postings are almost unrelievedly negative if not HOSTILE.  One of the
> underlying reasons for the switch was the promise of in-band digital radio...
> but as at least one post averred...this is a pipe dream for the future.
>
> The Forum also deals with the issue of classical music on public FM's...
> such stations in northeast Ohio may have to rethink their options if WCLV-FM 104.9
> is a disaster.
>
> Laurence Glavin
>
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