June 3Jun 3 The company that promotes the legacy of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” has a reminder: Fred Rogers still wants to be your neighbor.Starting this week, Fred Rogers Productions is situating the iconic show as nearby as YouTube, where it’s getting its own channel.The channel will debut Thursday, June 4, with five episodes including the very first one, which was shot at Pittsburgh’s own WQED TV studios on Sept. 21, 1967, and aired the following February.Episodes of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” are already available online and via paid streaming services. But folks at Fred Rogers Productions, which continues to produce spin-off programs like the animated “Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood,” said the flagship series, with its messages of kindness, acceptance and understanding, deserves to be even more widely accessible.New episodes of the show — there are nearly 900 in all — aired through 2001. DiQuollo said the channel will post a rotating roster of 10 episodes at a time, including rarely seen shows, along with streaming episodes.Read more here.
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