local news broadcast, was honored as the 1992, 1993, and 1994 Best News Program by the Public Radio News Directors (PRNDI). The station also syndicated Toss the Feathers Christmas, an annual Celtic music Christmas program, hosted by Doug Dickson, between 1994 and 2004 across the globe through Public Radio International (PRI). Current programs Global Village, a daily music program, has been on-air since 1990, with only three hosts in that history, having been started by Bill Munger, hosted for many years by Maxx Faulkner, and now hosted by Maggie Brennan, who began as a college intern at the station. WCBE broadcasts national music programs including The World Cafe, Afropop Worldwide, and Echoes as well as several locally produced specialty music programs. The station carries the BBC World Service overnight and, since 1980, WCBE has carried Ohio news from the Statehouse News Bureau, now led by Bureau Chief and former WCBE News Director Karen Kasler. With the move to the Fort Hayes studios in 1992, the station began a series of live in-studio concerts, Live from Studio A, and recordings have been featured on promotional tapes and CDs. It's Movie Time is a regular feature on WCBE, hosted by John DeSando, and has won awards from the Los Angeles Press Club (2010, best radio feature), the Hermes Award (2010, Gold Award), and the Marcom Awards (2010, Gold Award). Financial scandal and aftermath The major public radio programs had also historically been broadcast on the WOSU-AM (820 AM) signal, but a series of changes in 2010 allowed Ohio State University to move the classical broadcast to WOSA (101.1 FM), their AM news service to the WOSU-FM (89.7 FM) signal, and WWLG (102.5 FM) became the new home for the former CD101 alternative rock station in a financial deal worth 4.8 million. Ohio State would then sell the 820 AM station to St. Gabriel Radio in a $2 million transaction. That station now broadcasts as WSVG. This competition created financial pressures for WCBE and General Manager Dan Mushalko was let go in 2019 having been convicted of telecommunications fraud for altering invoices to hide station debt from Columbus City Schools leadership. Ohio State University and WOSU hired former Columbus Mayor Michael B. Coleman to negotiate with a private group called WCBE Ohio to take over station operations, but did not negotiate with the district. The district paid off station debt with public funds