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LOS ANGELES — The “Reading Rainbow” is at an end on PBS.
The program aired its final episode Friday, wrapping a more than two-decade run that began in 1983. “Reading Rainbow,” hosted by LeVar Burton, was designed to spark a love for books in its young audience.
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 will be discontinued in December.
PBS and member station WNED, producer of “Reading Rainbow,” are in discussions to create a literacy website and to continue the show’s local story contests for kids on a national level.
