Barney’s story starts in late 1987 in Allen, Texas. At the time, a former teacher named Sheryl Leach had a two-year old son, Patrick. She struggled to find videos that held his attention. “I was a ...

You know Larry Rifkin’s face from old CPTV pledge drives or from his appearances on the televised UConn women’s basketball games for years after they first began being broadcast in the mid-1990s.

HARTFORD >> While Connecticut Public Television may have started with humble beginnings in the dark basement of Trinity College's library in 1962, the state's PBS station, now celebrating its 50th ...