From 2006 through 2021-2022, a history of WBOE-FM, written by me, was available on Wikipedia. During that time, items were added that were true. At the time that 90.3 FM became WCLV, this history was deleted and replaced, minus worthy historical items, because there was little, or no, on-line place to go for verification. That has been corrected with the online source that has been offered here. I desire to see information that was deleted re-added now that there is proof that it is true as we can't get better proof than that which comes from original documents. To help with this, I am going to post the segments involved that can be used. Some of this is in the current Wikipedia article, some is not. In italics are the most important pieces.
By the mid-1960s, the predecessors to National Public Radio (NPR)—the National Educational Radio Network and the National Association of Educational Broadcasters—distributed programs produced by member stations for use by WBOE and other stations. An example of one of the general-interest programs was The Old Record Box, a 15-minute series featuring cylinder records from the turn-of-the-century, produced in the mid-1960s by WFBE, the station owned by the Flint, Michigan Board of Education. In the 1970s, NPR continued to provide this service to educational stations. The WBOE-produced series Drama On Stage and Screen was picked up and distributed nationally by NPR. This series featured interviews conducted by WBOE's best known broadcaster, Cecilia Evans. She interviewed people involved in stage, screen and television careers, such as actor Greg Morris of CBS-TV's Mission: Impossible series.
In 1973-1974, WBOE had new studio facilities built at 10600 Quincy Avenue in the eastern side of Cleveland. In 1976 the station's power was increased to 50,000 watts with the transmitter and tower in
Parma, Ohio, one of the southwestern Cleveland suburbs.
[4] Until December 1976, WBOE's programming was primarily instructional programming intended for Cleveland school classrooms. Generally, the station broadcast from 7:55 a.m. or 8:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. on school days; school programming would often end at 3:00 p.m. Light entertainment, public service or educational programs of general interest concluded the broadcast day.
The June 28, 1973 Cleveland Board of Education meeting authorized "contracts for furnishings and delivering equipment for expansion and relocation of radio station WBOE".
[25] The plan was to move the station from its long-time home in the main Board of Education building in the center of the City of Cleveland to the East side of the city, on Quincy Avenue, near E. 105th street. The move occurred in 1974. Progress on becoming a NPR station was slowed by technical matters, including concern that WBOE's 50,000 watt signal might interfere with the TV audio of
WVIZ/PBS channel 25. It was estimated by WBOE's station manager at the time that this technical issue delayed the debut of NPR in the Cleveland market by over a year.
From December 20, 1976 through December 31, 1976, WBOE increased its broadcast day until 6:30 p.m. for the airing of the popular NPR program All Things Considered. On January 1, 1977 WBOE increased to an 18-hour-per-day, 7-day-a-week schedule (6:00 a.m. to midnight). Programming for in-school use continued on school days from 8:30 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. Adult, NPR, ethnic and other programming consumed the rest of the broadcast day and all day on weekends. Locally produced programming included Yes, You Can!, a weekly feature designed to encourage adults to continue their education; Parenting, a family life series; and Elementary School Highlights.
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In its final years of operation, WBOE's staff included station manager Jay Robert Klein (whose five-minute weekly feature You and Your Wheels featured up-to-date information about automobiles and discussed issues pertaining to automobile transportation); coordinator Charles Siegel (who produced shows like Cavities Don't Care and The Ins and Outs of Gardening); Karl Johnson, the producer–host of the morning-drive show Thank Goodness, It's (name of day) which aired Monday–Friday from 6 a.m. to 8 a.m.; senior high school programmer Cecilia Evans, who was an award-winning Cleveland broadcaster providing theater reviews for WBOE and commercial station WERE (1300 AM); Tom Altenbernd, who was the junior high school programmer; and elementary programmer Ervine Jaworski. Technical staff included First Class engineers Bill Nelson, who died in 1976 and was replaced by Ed Shaper, Al Hrivnak and Dennis Batig (who hosted a 1950s and 1960s music show, Let The Good Times Roll). Full-time board operators and production personnel were Ted Mazurowski and Richard Schenker. Part-time personnel included John L. Basalla, Jim Stincic, and Bruce Van Valkenburg. Basalla produced Rock Concepts, and Stincic produced Sessions In Swing, using the air name "Jim Matthews".
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