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With a degree in music composition, he wrote songs for the show, including the theme, "Won't You Be My Neighbor? He was an only child until the age of 11 when his parents, James and Nancy, adopted a baby girl. Rogers, who'd begun playing the piano at a young age, graduated magna cum laude in with a degree in music composition. During his senior year of college, he visited his parents and was awed by the family's newest household addition: a television set.

He could see a fantastic future for the medium and, as he'd later recall, Rogers immediately decided he wanted to be a part of it.

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Rogers' first job in television came when he worked as an assistant and floor manager of the music programs for NBC in New York City. In he was hired to work in programming by WQED in Pittsburgh, a recently launched community TV station that was the first of its kind in the country. By the following year, he was co-producing a new program, The Children's Corner.

This allowed Rogers, who'd fallen in love with puppetry as a child, to introduce some of his favorite puppets from his home to his young audience. The program helped lay the groundwork in its look and approach for Rogers' later show. As his experience grew, so did his aspirations. He earned his divinity degree in , and at his ordination, the Presbyterian Church asked him to serve children and families through television.