Reading Rainbow ends


	Reading Rainbow ends

thekay

8-28-2009 9:41 PM

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clipped whole article as it was short

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/589315a9-014b-4d2a-962a-efda637ccdbd/B3687934-3154-4C68-A935-80DE930411BB/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090829/ap_on_en_tv/us_tv_reading_rainbow_1" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090829/ap_on_en_tv/us_tv_reading_rainbow_1" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090829/ap_on_en_tv/us_tv_reading_rainbow_1"><H1 id="yn-story-title">Last chapter arrives for 'Reading Rainbow' on PBS</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090829/ap_on_en_tv/us_tv_reading_rainbow_1"><P>LOS ANGELES – The "<SPAN id="lw_1251507069_0" class="yshortcuts">Reading Rainbow</SPAN>" is at an end on <SPAN id="lw_1251507069_1" class="yshortcuts">PBS</SPAN>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090829/ap_on_en_tv/us_tv_reading_rainbow_1"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/45ADC249-9352-414D-84C4-9AA21E09D7AA" alt="FILE - In this Wednesday, June 21, 2006 picture, LeVar Burton, National Board" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090829/ap_on_en_tv/us_tv_reading_rainbow_1"><P>The program aired its final episode Friday, wrapping a more than two-decade run that began in 1983. "Reading Rainbow," hosted by <SPAN id="lw_1251507069_2" class="yshortcuts">LeVar Burton</SPAN>, was designed to spark a love for books in its young audience.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090829/ap_on_en_tv/us_tv_reading_rainbow_1"><P>The once-popular show's ratings had slipped and production on new episodes stopped several years ago, PBS said. Along with the end of the broadcasts, the "Reading Rainbow" site at <A href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_en_tv/storytext/us_tv_reading_rainbow/33201059/SIG=10ktcmukv/*http://pbskids.org" linkindex="83"><SPAN id="lw_1251507069_3" class="yshortcuts">pbskids.org</SPAN></A> will be discontinued in December.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090829/ap_on_en_tv/us_tv_reading_rainbow_1"><P>But the program will remain available for classrooms with off-air educational rights in effect for a year, according to a PBS Web site.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090829/ap_on_en_tv/us_tv_reading_rainbow_1"><P>PBS and member station WNED, producer of "Reading Rainbow," are in discussions to create a literacy Web site and to continue the show's local story contests for kids on a national level.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B3687934-3154-4C68-A935-80DE930411BB/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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