- Fred McFeely Rogers was an American television personality, famous for creating, hosting, and composing the theme music for the educational preschool television series Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, which featured his kind-hearted, gentle, soft-spoken personality and directness to his audiences
| When did Fred Rogers die? / Died | 27 February 2003 |
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Fred Rogers facts
- Initially educated to be a minister, Rogers was displeased with the way television addressed children and made an effort to change this when he began to write for and perform on local Pittsburgh-area shows dedicated to youth
- WQED developed his own show in 1968 and it was distributed nationwide by Eastern Educational Television Network
- Over the course of three decades on television, Fred Rogers became an icon of American children's entertainment and education
- He was also known for his advocacy of various public causes
- His testimony before a lower court in favor of fair use recording of television shows to play at another time (now known as time shifting) was cited in a U
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- Supreme Court decision on the Betamax case, and he gave now-famous testimony to a U
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- Senate committee, advocating government funding for children's television
- Rogers received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, some forty honorary degrees, and a Peabody Award
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