Save Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood is a grassroots campaign organized in response to PBS’s decision to remove Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood from their weekday schedule.

The unique, timeless, nurturing messages of Mister Rogers should remain as widely available as possible to children, and to the people who care for them. That’s why we’re doing this, and we hope you’ll considering lending us your voice.

The Save Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood campaign was organized by Brian Linder, a concerned parent from Columbia, South Carolina, who grew up watching the program.

“I was a highly-sensitive child,” Mr. Linder explains. “It was Mister Rogers who taught me how to begin to deal with my feelings. I think he taught my parents a lot, too. I know I’m still learning from him.”

“Watching the Neighborhood program was such a formative experience for me, and I have so many fond memories of it,” Linder adds.  “Sharing it with my own children is something I’ve looked forward to for a long time.”

“My girls are still too young to understand the show’s deeper messages,” says the 32-year-old father of twin toddlers. “But I can tell by the way their eyes light up that they’re already touched by the gentleness, simplicity, and whimsy of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.”

“You can imagine my disappointment when I heard about PBS’s decision to pull back on distribution,” he continues. “I just felt so strongly that someone needed to do something.”

Reach Brian Linder, Campaign Organizer, at brian@savemisterrogers.com.

Direct press inquiries to Ann Kennedy, Media Liaison, at press@savemisterrogers.com.