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WQED

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania(approximate location)

WQED Multimedia’s mission is to enrich communities through education and storytelling by offering outstanding public media.

From their site

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Who works there

  • Bronze Angel$2,500
  • Silver Angel$5,000
  • Platinum Angel$10,000

Listed on the company’s own site. People move on; this is not a current roster.

Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Film
Websitewqed.org
Statusactive2023 credit + site i

How their work is rated

Average rating
8.3IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

9 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards
Emmys1of6nominations17%

19 wins from 132 nominations across all awards

Mostly
documentary, family, music
Active
1957–2016
Best known for
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 31 of 60 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
641 seasons

1968–1996

Television rating
8.4IMDb

Their films average 7.1, so the television rates 1.3 higher.

Networks
  • PBS6
  • National Educational Television1

Across 6 series matched to TMDB, 1,128 episodes. 1 still returning or in production.

Longest runningMister Rogers' Neighborhood · 31 seasons

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits24 of 60

54 films · 6 TV titles

Titles per year35 titles · busiest 2013 with 7

35 titles across 27 years, averaging 1.3 a year. The last five years average 0.4 a year, below their long-run rate. 10 of those 27 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time9 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
46810their average 8.319601970198019902000

The 5 titles since 1995 average 7.7, 0.6 below their 8.4 overall. 2 of 9 rated titles sit above their 8.4 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Rick Sebak6
Writers
  • Rick Sebak14
Notable cast
  • Rick Sebak12
  • Fred Rogers3
Genres
  • Documentary24 of 31
  • Family5 of 31
  • Music4 of 31
  • History3 of 31
  • Biography2 of 31

Names appearing on two or more of WQED’s produced titles, across the 31 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with5 companies

Companies that appear alongside WQED on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

Film offices covering Pittsburgh

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