Barney’s story starts in late 1987 in Allen, Texas. At the time, a former teacher named Sheryl Leach had a two-year old son, Patrick. She struggled to find videos that held his attention. “I was a ...

You know Larry Rifkin’s face from old CPTV pledge drives or from his appearances on the televised UConn women’s basketball games for years after they first began being broadcast in the mid-1990s.

HARTFORD >> While Connecticut Public Television may have started with humble beginnings in the dark basement of Trinity College's library in 1962, the state's PBS station, now celebrating its 50th ...

Barney the purple dinosaur comes across as a big, helpful guy who loves kids and laughs a lot. But there is more to him than that; Barney has two sides. Side 1 is the kid-show character. Barney is a ...

CPTV is a media service of the Connecticut Public Broadcasting Network (CPBN, ). It is a locally and nationally recognized producer and presenter of quality public television programming, including ...

Why do we revisit things we loved as kids, and what is the lasting power of this media? A new seven-part podcast looks for answers in a great big, purple dinosaur. And if you are of a certain age, you ...