People
Ellen Doherty promoted to chief creative officer at Fred Rogers Productions
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Doherty oversees popular PBS Kids series while developing new projects.
System/Policy
IG audits question Rogers Co. accounting on three PBS Kids shows
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Each series is produced with Canadian partners to take advantage of funding incentives north of the border.
Quick Takes
Fred Rogers Co. gets $2M for ‘Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood’
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Rite Aid Foundation underwriting spots will air before and after each episode and online.
"The Pub" Podcast
‘The Pub’ #39: Public radio’s two audiences, PBS news VP Marie Nelson, Auto-Tune on kids’ shows
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Research shows that baby boomers and millennials are not only listening to public radio differently, but for different reasons.
PBS
Meet the cub of the tiger of the house that Fred built
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It hasn’t been a truly beautiful day in the neighborhood for more than 10 years. Not since Fred Rogers, star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood for 33 years, hung up his red cardigan sweater for the last time in 2001. He had made 900 episodes of TV’s most gently nurturing programs for children. A couple of years later, in early 2003, Rogers died of stomach cancer and, though his nonprofit company lived on, his Neighborhood became a ghost town, existing only in reruns. Two years ago, PBS cut the number of reruns on its national schedule to one a week — at 6 a.m. Saturday.