Continuing “Barney” without PBS funds would be difficult, because it would mean that CPTV and its co-producers, the Texas-based Lyons Group, would have to round up millions of dollars through ...

Or one that will mock and vilify the character, as it did when Barney & Friends became a PBS hit in the 1990s ... to regret the purchase of a Barney VHS tape can attest. But in the 1990s and ...

PASADENA, Calif. — Public television will launch a new 24-hour children’s channel starting July 1 with such favorites as “Barney & Friends” and “Wishbone,” PBS President Ervin Duggan ...

Overheard is produced by Austin PBS, KLRU-TV and distributed by NETA. Former Congressman Barney Frank represented the Fourth District of Massachusetts for more than three decades. One of the most ...

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 ...