![]() ![]() CPTV was hoping for Barney & Friends to continue so it could help raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for its operating budget through the sale of Barney merchandise during pledge breaks.ĬPTV (and the Lyons Group) had applied in April 1992 for $2.3 million in PBS funds to continue Barney & Friends beyond the initial thirty episodes during its first season - which were produced with a $2.25 million matching grant from a fund established by PBS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. For CPTV, along with its co-producer The Lyons Group, it meant that they would have to round up millions of dollars through corporate sponsors or some other arrangement in order for the show to continue. ![]() In June 1992, PBS told CPTV that it would not renew Barney & Friends. ĬPTV and The Lyons Group co-produced Barney & Friends which debuted on PBS on April 6, 1992. CPTV had to recoup the initial $700,000 before payments could be received for PBS and CPB. CPTV's income was split when PBS and CPB became involved. Incurred in making sales in the home video and foreign markets. Had recouped its initial $2 million investment, as well as costs it However, payments to CPTV would not commence until after The Lyons Group An arrangement between Lyons and CPTV was already established as CPTV was set to receive thirty percent of profits from foreign broadcast and audio and video sales. Liaison between Lyons and the public television stations airing Barney. Under the terms of the agreement, Connecticut Public Television agreed to commit almost $700,000-mainly in-kind services entailed in establishing the In 1991, PBS, CPB (Corporation for Public Broadcasting), CPTV and the Lyons Group entered into an agreement to bring the show to public broadcasting. After his daughter fell in love with one of the Barney & The Backyard Gang tapes, Larry Rifkin, who was the executive vice president of programming for PBS member station Connecticut Public Television at the time, spoke with the creators of the show in talks of putting the program on PBS.
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