CPB to Announce 2006 Fred Rogers Award Recipient

CPB to Announce 2006 Fred Rogers Award Recipient

On Friday, October 20th, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) will be announcing the recipient of the 2006 Fred Rogers Award.

CPB created the Fred Rogers Award in 2001 to honor an individual or organization that, like Mr. Rogers, has contributed to excellence in children's educational media. For 32 years, as auteur of the groundbreaking PBS program "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," Fred Rogers shared his magical talents as a musician, songwriter, and master of puppet voices to educate children about the world in which they were growing up.

Past recipients of the Fred Rogers Award have been leaders within the fields of children's media and education. They include: Fred Rodgers (2001 inaugural award), Sesame Workshop (2002), LeVar Burton, Host of "Reading Rainbow" (2003), Shirley E. Timonere, Ohio Public Broadcasting executive and former teacher (2004), Dr. Milton Chen, Executive Director of the George Lucas Education Foundation (2005).

The Recipient of the Fred Rogers Award receives a "trolley-shaped" crystal statuette, a landmark symbol from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.

What: Fred Rogers Award
When: Friday, October 20, 2006 at 9:00 am
Where: Renaissance Washington Hotel
999 9th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001

About the Corporation for Public Broadcasting:

CPB, a private, nonprofit corporation created by Congress in 1967, is the steward of the federal government's investment in public broadcasting. It helps support the operations of more than 1000 locally owned and operated public television and radio stations nationwide, and is the largest single source of funding for research, technology, and program development for public radio, television, and related on-line services.

CONTACT: Michael Levy, Corporate and Public Affairs of Corporation for Public Broadcasting, +1-202-879-9758, press@cpb.org.

PRNewswire -- Oct. 17

Source: Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Web site: http://www.cpb.org/

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