About WQLN
The History of WQLN
Mission
People are transformed and lives are enriched when compelling ideas challenge them.
As a partner with the community, WQLN is committed to building and maintaining bridges that foster the transformation of lives through a diverse array of educational, informative, engaging, inspiring, and creative broadcast programs and services which stimulate the empowerment of the community through an insightful and enriching exchange of views.
Vision
WQLN Public Media envisions a community engaged in meaningful dialog that enriches our understanding of the world around us. This dialog will find its inspiration in content gathered by WQLN and its community members and delivered through traditional and new media platforms. While focusing on our home community, WQLN seeks to include anyone in a respectful exchange of ideas.
WQLN will be recognized as a critical resource to our community based on excellence in content aggregation, loyalty to the community, and commitment to providing programs and services that are educational, respectful, engaging, and inspiring.
WQLN Public Media
WQLN-TV 54 is your prime time connection to PBS and much more - three channels more. WQLN-TV 54.1 is the Erie area's primary PBS affiliate featuring safe children's programming every weekday from 6:00am to 6:00pm and on Saturdays from 7:00 am to 9:00am and 7:00am to 10:00am on Sundays; PBS Primetime programming every Sunday through Friday evening; British Comedies on Saturday nights; How to programming Saturday afternoons; and Travel on Sunday. WQLN-TV 54.2 is the Create Network. Create is a new network that showcases the best of how-to and do-it-yourself programs from the PBS and American Public Television libraries. Create also features safe PBS children's programming every week night from 6:00pm to 9:00pm. WQLN-TV 54.3 is WQLN's "way-back-channel" airing the direct West Coast feed from PBS. The channel is the same feed that stations in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle receive every day directly from PBS. For people in Erie this means that children's programming begins at 9:00am, the Newshour is on at 9:00pm and primetime begins at 11:00pm.
WQLN Radio-FM 91.3 is the Erie area's news, classics & jazz public radio station. WQLN Radio is affiliated with National Public Radio, Public Radio International and American Public Media. WQLN Radio airs more original hours of programming every week than any other radio station in the Greater Erie Area radio markets. How many hours? 59 - and most come from a staff of volunteer radio hosts.
WQLN Educational Services works to keep the community informed, helps families with literacy, assists adults in getting their GEDs and so much more.
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