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December 2, 2008 7:20:41 PM CST



PBS Draws Curtain on Mr. Rogers

Posted Sep 1, 08 5:53 PM CDT in Business Arts & Living 

(Newser) – Today is not a beautiful day in Mister Rogers' neighborhood. The show has aired for the last time on most PBS stations, making way for newer programs with higher ratings, the Chicago Tribune reports. Loyal fans have created a website and Facebook group to try to save the reassuring cardigan-clad friend who teaches kids about what one fan calls "clumsy, awkward, uncomfortable real life."

"This is an old program and appeals less and less to the market," says the head of the nonprofit Fred Rogers started to run the show. PBS says it may eventually offer episodes online, and is in talks to produce a new series with the same group. But, one booster said: "The fact that that's not going to be there is pretty sad."

Source Chicago Tribune

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Kids play in the Mister Rogers Neighborhood exhibit at the Louisiana Children's Museum.   (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Fred Rogers rehearses the opening of his PBS show "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" during a taping in this June 28, 1989, file photo in Pittsburgh.   (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
PBS is pulling Mister Rogers' Neighborhood from the air to make room for fresher programming.   (AP Photo)
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