NEW YORK -- In a plea for the life of "Reading Rainbow," host LeVar Burton returned to a familiar setting: the stage where he picked up the PBS show's seventh Emmy Award for best children's ...

PBS’s “ Reading Rainbow ” will end its 26-year run on Friday, due to lack of funds. In its storied time on air the show won more than two dozen Emmys.

Since its premiere on PBS KIDS in 1983, READING RAINBOW has helped children build lasting relationships with books at home and in the classroom. As broadcast rights are set to expire, PBS will no ...

15 years after PBS closed the book on Reading Rainbow, the beloved educational show is coming back as an interactive series, Reading Rainbow Live.

Reading Rainbow “was and continues to be a greatly loved PBS series,” Grant says. He wants to see what can be done with the franchise in new media. A funding shortage put the show off the air.

The last episode of "Reading Rainbow" aired in November 2006, but the show lives on via the Reading Rainbow iPad App, which offers up the series for free.

After 20 years of getting children excited about books, the PBS show, lacking a merchandising hook, could vanish due to inadequate funding.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Once employees at WNED-TV who helped launch the legendary PBS series “Reading Rainbow,” Dr. Barbara Irwin, Tony Buttino, Sr. and Dr. Pam Johnson sat down for a panel ...

PBS and member station WNED, producer of "Reading Rainbow," are in discussions to create a literacy website and to continue the show's local story contests for kids on a national level.

LeVar Burton, he of Roots and Star Trek: The Next Generation fame, is getting another career boost thanks to a new YouTube remix video featuring his old PBS Reading Rainbow show autotuned to the ...

PBS remixes another of its iconic shows, and this time, it's all about books. PBS Remixes 'Reading Rainbow,' Delights Map And Book Nerds Everywhere PBS Digital Studios started its "Icons Remixed ...