As Robert Conrad received the Great Idea Award from ideastream Oct. 30, loyal WCLV 104.9FM classical radio listeners realized how much his distinctive voice has been a part of their lives — for some, ...

Classical music has had a roller-coaster existence on the radio in recent decades, when stations in many cities have changed formats or gone out of business. But not in Cleveland, where WCLV FM/104.9 ...

With RIAA’s effort to make radio stations pay a performance royalty to record labels and artists for music broadcasts again being debated on Capitol Hill, Classical WCLV-FM Cleveland is asking its ...

Cleveland's classical music station, WCLV-FM, 104.9, is planning to join ideastream, the umbrella organization that oversees public broadcast stations WCPN-FM, 90.3, and WVIZ-TV, Channel 25. Under an ...

Which is not to say I handled my duties all alone. Despite the fact that our format was designed for an older demographic — we played big-band music, which we trumpeted as “the sounds of your life” — ...

Under a license transfer agreement announced this week, Cleveland’s commercial classical music station WCLV will become a subsidiary of ideastream, the Northern Ohio pubcaster that operates WVIZ-TV ...

Classical music station WCLV-FM, 104.9, will begin operating as a noncommercial radio station starting Jan. 1. With the transition, WCLV said, it is following commercial classical music radio stations ...

Conrad, president and co-founder of the 50-year-old Cleveland-based classical music station, received ideastream’s “Great Idea Award” for his service as a leading classical musical broadcaster, ...

The spirit of the live radio variety shows that were so popular in the 30 s and 40 s is captured in the WCLV production. This photo, from the collection of Larry Kass, shows Ruth Etting, a popular ...

A programmer in Cleveland is more than a little bit annoyed that supporters of the Performance Rights Act aren’t making the slightest attempt to figure out what the value of free radio promotion is to ...

Detroit doesn’t have a classical music station anymore anymore. Neither does Philadelphia, or San Diego, or Tulsa. Cleveland could have gone the same way. Its commercial classical station, WCLV(FM), ...