Mr. Paul K. Taff

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  www.thirteen.org/blogs/index.php?itemid=264#c - [Cached Version]
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  Paul K. Taff, who brought Mister Rogers to public television and led Connecticut Public Broadcasting and later the Connecticut Broadcasters Association (CBA), is profiled in the Decatur, Illinois Herald Review.He facilitated Fred Rogers' move to national public television while head of children's programming at the National Educational Television (NET) network in New York, the predecessor of PBS.He also brought public FM to Connecticut in 1978, and the call letters of the flagship station of Connecticut Public Radio honor him, WPKT 90.5.He continues as president emeritus of CBA at age 87.Mister Rogers' Neighborhood is seen weekday afternoons at 2:30 on Thirteen/WNET.

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  www.ctba.org/about/taff.html - [Cached Version]
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  PRESIDENT EMERITUS - Paul K. Taff
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  Two sons - Paul, and Richard, one granddaughter Stephanie.

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  Bart White Associates -- Clients! - [Cached Version]
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  Paul Taff

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  CBI State Broadcast Association Contact List - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/20/2003    Last Visited: 12/23/2005  

  Mr. Paul Taff Phone: 860/633-5031 PresidentFAX: 860/657-2491

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  Connecticut Broadcasters Association - [Cached Version]
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  Paul K. Taff

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  Connecticut Broadcasters Association - [Cached Version]
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  acquired by CPTV's head Paul K. Taff. The station's call letters (WPBH) are subsequently changed to WPKT to honor Paul. Satellite stations WNPR 89.1 Norwich and WEDW-FM 88.5 Stamford are added later to the Connecticut Public
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  1993: CBA executive director Paul K. Taff works with FCC and Connecticut TV stations to prevent an attempt by Cablevision to remove them from its menu of stations in lower Fairfield County, including WFSB 3, WTNH 8, WTXX 20, WVIT 30, and WTIC-TV 61.
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  2005: Paul Taff, president emeritus of CBA, and of Conn. Public Broadcasting, Inc., receives CBA Lifetime Achievement Award. He served for 25 years as head of CPTV, launched Connecticut Public Radio on WPKT 90.5 Hartford-Meriden and WNPR 89.1 Norwich. Early in his career, in the 1950s he managed WMVS channel 10 Milwaukee, overseeing its launching, and in the 1960s, as head of children's programming at national Educational Television (predecessor of PBS) he was key in bringing Mister Rogers Neighborhood to national public television.

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  Connecticut Broadcasters Association - [Cached Version]
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  PRESIDENT EMERITUS - Paul K. Taff
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  Two sons - Paul, and Richard, one granddaughter Stephanie.

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  Connecticut Broadcasters Association - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/23/2003    Last Visited: 12/23/2003  

  Paul K. Taff P.O. Box 678Glastonbury, CT 06033-0678(860) 657-2491Fax: (860) 657-2491

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  Connecticut Broadcasters Association - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/16/2007    Last Visited: 7/11/2009  

  CPTV's head Paul K. Taff. The station's call letters (WPBH) are
  
  subsequently changed to WPKT to honor Paul. Satellite stations WNPR 89.1

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  Current Online | Fred Rogers dies, February 2003 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/16/2003    Last Visited: 3/16/2003  

  "We were able to give him color monitors and a color set," said Paul Taff, former Connecticut Public Broadcasting president who laid the groundwork for the series' national launch while working at NET."That was the turning point."
  
  Child development theories that tended to preschoolers' social and emotional needs shaped Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.He spoke into the camera as if addressing a single young viewer and paced the conversation so the child watching could talk back to him.He helped his young viewers differentiate between the modest real-world set that he inhabited with the neighborhood of make-believe-where his puppet characters worked out conflicts in imaginative minidramas.

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