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Fnord666
on Tuesday February 20 2018, @11:06AM
from the I-bet-even-his-neighborhood-has-changed dept.
from the I-bet-even-his-neighborhood-has-changed dept.
The first episode of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" was broadcast on PBS on February 19, 1968. Fifty years later, the program is still being shown on public television stations, to the delight of both children and adults. Though he passed away in 2003, Fred Rogers' philosophy continues to influence children's television today.
http://wvxu.org/post/mr-rogers-neighborhood-50th-anniversary
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 5, Informative) by bzipitidoo on Tuesday February 20 2018, @03:44PM
> Once I realized PBS wasn't nearly as hippy
Yeah, I learned that years ago when the PBS News Hour aired a very biased segment about copyright in which the 2 sides were "extreme copyright" vs "even more extreme copyright". Evidently they put the public second to a twisted idea of loyalty to their fellow artists. Sick the way they whine for donations, then won't release their material, particularly the really old stuff, to the public. I snagged an old Sesame Street episode with torrenting, and what struck me was how dated it was. In it, they introduce the kids to the computer, as if none of them would have seen one before the 6th grade or so!
PBS does have a website, but they make it a total pain to, for instance, download Sesame Street episodes. I'm very much unimpressed with their web site design. They only stream a few episodes at a time, with Flash, and only at the rate of one new episode per week. Streaming is nearly useless for a road trip with a kid, unless you want to blow lots of money on an unlimited cellular data plan, and even then a signal drop will cut off the show. Much better to have it all downloaded to a tablet beforehand. I use a plugin, Video Download Helper, to grab videos like that. I suppose I ought to be grateful, little though it is, as it could have been nothing at all.