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Dec 23, 2023 · Solstock/Getty Images. Tony Buttino was the director of educational services at Buffalo Toronto Public Media (WNED), a PBS-affiliated television station in Buffalo, New York. He was doing research on a phenomenon commonly known as the "Summer Slide," during which children's reading comprehension decreases due to a lack of summer education.
- Larry Fried
Apr 30, 2024 · Tony Buttino Sr. is best known for his leadership in the creation of the Emmy award-winning Public TV series Reading Rainbow. Most of his forty years of working at WNED-TV were spent utilizing...
May 4, 2024 · In their new book, “Creating Reading Rainbow: The Untold Story of a Beloved Children's Series,” authors Barbara Irwin, Tony Buttino and Pam Johnson share the extraordinary journey of the small local team that worked to bring a historic series to life.
Creating Reading Rainbow affirms public media’s commitment to treat each child as a future citizen and lifelong learner. It is also a story of dedication by a local public television station WNED-TV and its education leader Tony Buttino.
- Barbara Irwin, Tony Buttino Sr., Pam Johnson
May 19, 2017 · Tony Buttino (Co-Creator, Executive Producer, Former Director of Educational Services, WNED): I started looking into the summer reading loss phenomenon, which came out of research being done in...
Apr 23, 2024 · Tony Buttino sits in his Buffalo-area home, where he welcomed WNY Catholic Audio’s Michael Mroziak to hear about his experience as co-creator and longtime executive producer of “Reading Rainbow,” one of PBS television’s most beloved children’s shows.
Reading Rainbow is an American educational children's television series that originally aired on PBS and afterward PBS Kids from July 11, 1983 [1] [2] to November 10, 2006, with reruns continuing to air until August 28, 2009. 155 30-minute episodes were produced over 23 seasons. Before its official premiere, the show aired for test audiences in ...
