The Future Is Now: Children’s TV Creators Embrace New Technology to Make Content More Accessible

“I went into television because I hated it so,” the late Fred Rogers famously told CNN in 1999. “I thought there was some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.”

Twenty-five years after the creator of the groundbreaking “Mister Roger’s Neighborhood” said those words, the production company that bears his name is embracing technology to make children’s content easier to watch for a wider swath of young viewers.

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