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In 1969, Mr. Rogers appeared before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications to argue against the cutting of Federal Funds for PBS. He was successful in preventing the cuts.
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Mr. Rogers once convinced the Senate to fund PBS instead of the Vietnam war.
What percentage of pbs funding is federal?
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Mister Rogers defended public television to the US Senate; his testimony helped convince the Congress to increase funding to PBS, rather than cut it in half, as President Nixon wanted
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Fred Rogers is credited with the continued funding of PBS after he presented a passionate argument in front of the US Senate in May, 1969. This allowed healthy child development shows like 'Mr. Rogers Neighborhood' to be fully funded, along with the rest of PBS programming.
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Mr. Rogers went in front of the Senate to plead with them not to cut funding for PBS. Not only did he prevent the cut of funding, but he scored PBS an additional $20 million grant. He only talked for six minutes.
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Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones was the subject of a 1987 PBS documentary called "Trader" and wants to hide it from the public so much that he buys every copy that becomes available and tries to block it from being aired on the internet
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Mr.Rogers was a radical children's mental health activist who fought for PBS to get funding
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In 1969 Fred Rogers testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications who were looking to cut PBS' funding. In 6 Minutes he charmed the chairman, eventually increasing the funding to $22m (beautiful video in comments)
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In 1969, with a very passionate argument for the need for social and emotional education for children, Mr. Rogers spoke before the US Senate Subcommittee on Communications to support funding for PBS. Video link in comments.
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Mister Roger got $20 mil of government funding for PBS by reciting the lyrics to one of his songs before US Congress.
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Mr. Rodgers fought for federal funding of PBS with this moving speech at the hearing.
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On May 1, 1969, Mr. Rogers addressed the Senate to argue that $20 million in funding for PBS should not be cut. Sen John Pastore led the hearing and had never heard of Mr. Rogers’ television show. It took nust six minutes to convince the Senator from RI that the $20 million was well worth it.
