Current owners Chris and Linda Frank call this place magical, just like the theme of the late Fred Rogers’ show on WQED, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.” “Every time we come up the ...

WQED is launching the WQED + Kindness initiative. “If there were an inspirational figure at the center of it, it would be Fred Rogers,” Acklin says. Many people quote Rogers’ advice to child ...

meaning the Pittsburgh native regularly watched Fred Rogers appear on his television screen when episodes of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” (1968-2001) aired on WQED-TV.

Two Different Paths to the Same Goal On April 1,1954 Fred Rogers left his promising career working as a floor manager at NBC in New York to work at the public TV station WQED while studying to ...

To celebrate Mister Rogers’ birthday ... before moving back to Pittsburgh to help found WQED, the first community-supported educational television station. The host would share the screen ...