PBS Writes Last Chapter for Kids Show “Reading Rainbow”
August 28, 2009 by K12Genie Staff
Friday, August 28, 2009
NY Daily News
After 26 years, the PBS television show “Reading Rainbow” will go off the air because it lacks the several hundred thousand dollars in funds necessary to renew its broadcast rights. The show, hosted by LeVar Burton ( of Star Trek the Next Generation and Roots fame) has won more than two dozen Emmys and is the third longest running children’s program on PBS. Only “Sesame Street” and “Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood” have run longer.
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Sorry to see this show go. Many of the episodes are geared for school-aged children, unlike the many preschool shows that we also enjoy on PBS.