Now, Rifkin was not an expert on children’s television and CPTV was not a major player in public broadcasting, but PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting had recently put out a call for more ...

In Generation Barney, member station Connecticut Public explores how Barney the Dinosaur shaped a generation of kids. Here's some of the podcast's first episode in which host Sabrina Herrera guides us ...

And so Rifkin pitched the show for national distribution. The very next year, 1992, “Barney and the Backyard Gang” hit PBS as “Barney & Friends” and found its way into the homes of ...

They were getting phone call after phone call from parents asking about Barney. Plus, the show's numbers were still going strong. So local PBS programmers demanded more of Barney at the PBS annual ...

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