Josie Carey
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About This Interview
TV host Josie Carey (1930-2004) was interviewed for three hours plus in Pittsburgh, PA. Ms. Carey began her television career as an associate producer on KDKA in Pittsburgh. She joined Pittsburgh’s new public television station WQED and where she hosted The Children’s Corner, produced by Fred Rogers. Ms. Carey talked about how concepts, songs and puppets originally created on The Children’s Corner became cornerstones of Rogers’ Mister Rogers Neighborhood. Ms. Carey later moved to North Carolina, where she created and hosted the children’s program Whee! The interview was conducted by Karen Herman on July 23, 1999.
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
- On her early years and influences; on her start in television; on being an associate producer on Ask the Girls; on starting at Pittsburgh's new public television station WQED
- Chapter 2
- On early KQED programming
- On hosting The Children's Corner
- Chapter 3
- On hosting The Children's Corner; on The Children's Corner's broadcasts on NBC
- Chapter 4
- On hosting The Children's Corner (continued)
- Chapter 5
- On the end of The Children's Corner; on transitioning to KDKA; on moving to South Carolina
- Chapter 6
- On her work on Whee!; on summing up her career; on Fred Rogers' legacy; on her advice to aspriring professionals; on how she'd like to be remembered
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