LEVAR BURTON'S 'READING RAINBOW' CANCELED: PBS pulls plug on show after 26 years.
(August 31, 2009)
*PBS has decided that it is over the "rainbow."
The once popular "Reading Rainbow," hosted by LeVar Burton, aired its final episode Friday, wrapping a more than two-decade run of teaching kids how to read.
Production on new episodes stopped several years ago, PBS said. Along with the end of the broadcasts, the "Reading Rainbow" site at pbskids.org will be discontinued in December.
But the program, which premiered in 2003, will remain available for classrooms with off-air educational rights in effect for a year, according to a PBS Web site.
PBS and member station WNED, producer of "Reading Rainbow," are in discussions to create a literacy Web site and to continue the show's local story contests for kids on a national level.
The once popular "Reading Rainbow," hosted by LeVar Burton, aired its final episode Friday, wrapping a more than two-decade run of teaching kids how to read.
Production on new episodes stopped several years ago, PBS said. Along with the end of the broadcasts, the "Reading Rainbow" site at pbskids.org will be discontinued in December.
But the program, which premiered in 2003, will remain available for classrooms with off-air educational rights in effect for a year, according to a PBS Web site.
PBS and member station WNED, producer of "Reading Rainbow," are in discussions to create a literacy Web site and to continue the show's local story contests for kids on a national level.
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