Tag: Reading Rainbow

“Reading Rainbow” Kickstarter Ends Campaign With $5.4 Million

“Reading Rainbow” Kickstarter Ends Campaign With $5.4 Million

Briefly: LaVar Burton‘s Reading Rainbow may have reached it’s $1 million goal in a day, but fans would keep backing the project for days and weeks until it reached its $5 million goal. And now that the 35-day campaign has come to an end, it’s time to count how backers donated to the project. We…

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Seth MacFarlane To Donate $1 Million Towards “Reading Rainbow” Kickstarter Campaign

Seth MacFarlane To Donate $1 Million Towards “Reading Rainbow” Kickstarter Campaign

We already know how the Reading Rainbow kickstarter campaign was able to accumulate the $1 million funds needed to relaunch the PBS series into a readily available scholarly program for the youth. In fact there were some really cool incentives for fans should they give larger amounts. But with the campaign drawing to a close…

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LaVar Burton’s “Reading Rainbow” Kickstarter Reaches $1 Million Goal In Less Than 24 Hours

LaVar Burton’s “Reading Rainbow” Kickstarter Reaches $1 Million Goal In Less Than 24 Hours

It only took a few hours since the Reading Rainbow Kickstarter launched, but thanks to fans of the PBS series and Star Trek: The Next Generation, LaVar Burton was able to meet his $1 million goal in less than 24 hours.  In fact it took only about 10 hours for Reading Rainbow‘s Kickstarter goal to…

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TV & Movie Apps: Fox’s “Own the Moments”, Reading Rainbow, and Cartoon Network

TV & Movie Apps: Fox’s “Own the Moments”, Reading Rainbow, and Cartoon Network

A few movie mobile apps have been released lately, so I wanted to spotlight them all here in one post. Fox Digital Entertainment released an app called “Own the Moments”, LeVar Burton final brings the world a Reading Rainbow iPad app, and Cartoon Network will start having a live TV feed on its app. Get…

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LeVar Burton Gets Control of @ReadingRainbow In Record Time

LeVar Burton Gets Control of @ReadingRainbow In Record Time

For those too young to remember it in its heyday, Reading Rainbow was a PBS television show hosted by LeVar Burton. The show used kids from the target demographic to encourage reading among children and has become a nostalgic classic among us Eighties babies. The Twitter handle @ReadingRainbow had been taken by someone not using…

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