Editing Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (section)

===Move to WQED===
In 1966, Rogers acquired the rights to his program from CBC and moved the show to WQED in Pittsburgh, where he had worked on ''The Children's Corner''. He renamed the show ''Misterogers' Neighborhood'', which initially aired regionally in the northeastern United States through EEN, including educational stations in [[Boston]], [[Washington, D.C.]], and [[New York City]].<ref name=cbc /> The 100 episodes of the half-hour show incorporated the "[[Neighborhood of Make-Believe]]" segments from the CBC episodes with additional reality-based opening and closing material produced in Pittsburgh. The series was cancelled in 1967 due to lack of funding, but an outpouring of public response prompted a search for new funding.

In 1967, The [[Sears|Sears Roebuck Foundation]] provided funding for the program, which enabled it to be seen nationwide on [[National Educational Television]]; taping began on September 21, 1967<ref>{{cite news |title=QED's 'Misterogers' Given Sears' Grant |first=Win |last=Fanning |publisher=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |date=July 12, 1967 |page=33 |url=http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/88349797/ |access-date=2022-05-01 |website=Newspapers.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Fred Rogers |website=Britannica Kids }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |website=Facebook |url=https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10155564537999651&id=24044159650&fs=5}} {{User-generated source|certain=yes|date=March 2022}}</ref> for the first national season. The first national broadcast of ''Misterogers' Neighborhood'' appeared on most NET stations on February 19, 1968. In 1970, when PBS replaced NET, it also inherited this program. Around the same time, the show had a slight title change, to the more-familiar ''Mister Rogers' Neighborhood''.

The show was broadcast from February 19, 1968 to February 20, 1976, and again from August 27, 1979 to August 31, 2001. The final episode was recorded on December 1, 2000.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2001/09/01/for-mister-rogers-a-final-day-in-the-neighborhood/6c6b6bdd-82f6-4a7e-92c0-af5493837953/|title=For Mister Rogers, a Final Day in the Neighborhood|last=Montgomery|first=David|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=September 1, 2001|access-date=February 20, 2018}}</ref> The studio at WQED in Pittsburgh in which the series was recorded was later renamed "The Fred Rogers Studio".