WQLN NPR first signed on the air in 1973. On July 12th of that year, City Councilman Mario Bagnoni read a letter of protest into the city record. The Councilman was furious over the portrayal of Lake Erie on the television series The Mod Squad. The series depicted a polluted Lake Erie that was too polluted for a “criminal on the run” to use as a means of escape.
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