"At first, the show only aired on a few local PBS channels up and down the East Coast." - DALLAS TAYLOR, Happy Little Episode, Twenty Thousand Hertz #TwentyThousandHertz #PublicTelevisionDay #DallasTaylor

"The local PBS station made a documentary about Stiltsville and its little Stilt houses." - NICOLA TWILLEY, You're Wrong About Prohibition, Gastropod #Gastropod #PublicTelevisionDay #NicolaTwilley

"It was a PBS show called Reading Rainbow!" - DALLAS TAYLOR, Butterfly in the Synth: Reading Rainbow's Magical Theme Song, Twenty Thousand Hertz #TwentyThousandHertz #PublicTelevisionDay #DallasTaylor

"He was threatening to cut funding for public television in half even though the whole idea of public media was still new." - MARY HARRIS, Is This the End of NPR and PBS?, What Next #WhatNext #PublicTelevisionDay #MaryHarris

"LBJ gave us NPR and PBS - you would not have Sesame Street without LBJ!" - KENNY RYAN, 36.) Lyndon Baines Johnson 1963-1969, [Abridged] Presidential Histories #AbridgedPresidentialHistories #PublicTelevisionDay #KennyRyan

"It was a PBS show." - EMILY NUSSBAUM, Cue the Sun!, 99% Invisible #99PercentInvisible #99pi #PublicTelevisionDay #EmilyNussbaum

"Gotta love PBS!" - ANNA SOPER, Film critic, author and podcaster Alonso Duralde on his book, HOLLYWOOD PRIDE, Teen People #TeenPeoplePod #PublicTelevisionDay #AnnaSoper

"Parents, here is all the evidence you need that TV is bad for kids, especially public TV." - IRA GLASS, Hoaxing Yourself, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #HoaxingYourself #PublicTelevisionDay #IraGlass

"And she'd been invited onto a book show hosted by a local professor, on WGBH, which is the Boston public TV station." - NICOLA TWILLEY, TV Dinners, Gastropod #Gastropod #PublicTelevisionDay #NicolaTwilley

"My biggest moment was probably representing the group on a round table discussion on the local public television channel." - SARAH VOWELL, Apocalypse, This American Life #TAL #ThisAmericanLife #Apocalypse #PublicTelevisionDay #SarahVowell