The puppet show, debuting next year, features one of the characters from the original "Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood."

An eight-episode prequel is setting the stage for the PBS Kids show's July premiere.

Organizers delivered petitions to members of Congress, bearing 660,000 signatures gathered online to save CPB funding.

Local childhood education experts, elected officials and even a skunk joined children at a special event recorded for later broadcast.

Stations must make room by dropping an existing subchannel, adjusting bandwidth or acquiring encoders to add an entirely new channel.

The shows will still be available free through the PBS Kids app on other platforms, such as Roku and Apple TV.

Embedded interactive games will allow kids to switch between a program and a related educational activity.

“This is a new way to experiment around building buzz for a series.”

With many local pubcasters reporting sharp declines in daytime viewership, PBS programmers are reevaluating scheduling strategies for children’s programs, trying to get ...