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 ...

I’m very much concerned, as I know you are, about what’s being delivered to our children in this country,” said Fred Rogers ...

President Donald Trump’s attempt to de-fund NPR and PBS may remove about 5% from the budgets of television and radio stations ...

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 ...

Eliminating funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would be “catastrophic,” CEO of WQED Multimedia in Oakland ...

Margaret Mary Kimmel and Mark Collins narrate the scene in their book, The Wonder of It All: Fred Rogers and the Story of an Icon (PDF ... My first children’s program was on WQED 15 years ago, and its ...

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.

Kweilyn began her TV career at WQED Multimedia, where she worked with the likes of Mister Rogers and helped to produce several national Doo Wop television productions and station events.