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Mr. Roger's Neighborhood is a national treasure. In today's society filled with war, drugs, over half of [marriages] ending in divorce, and absent parents working three jobs just to make ends meet, kids need the kind words and soothing voice of Fred Rogers more than ever.

Mister Rogers is the only series we permit our little kids to watch. We watch it together as a family and it is such a quality time for us to share. This isn't a nostalgia thing. It's about the children. It can still be this special nurturing force in children's lives. I feel like it's needed now more than ever. There's nothing else on TV like it.

Even though it isn't being dropped entirely, PBS is relegating it to an inferior status, and the new way of offering it daily to the local stations who choose to keep it, is more difficult, and has left Mr. Rogers off our local PBS station. This is a disaster for our pre-schoolers who don't understand at all.

We will not even think of giving one penny to PBS, or support it in any way, until Mister Roger's Neighborhood is back on all stations daily, where it is supposed to be. No matter what the new programs will be, they will not equal what Mister Rogers have given kids, and parents since 1968.

Releasing all of the seasons in good quality DVD sets & casings would not even come close to taking the place of having it on TV for all to watch and benefit from daily.