TV & VIDEO - Oct. 28, 1987

KCET Channel 28 in Los Angeles and WNET Channel 13 in New York have been awarded as much as $2 million in matching grants by the Public Television Programming Challenge Fund to develop “Childhood,” a series that examines the concept of childhood through history and across cultures. The eight-to-10 part series is targeted for broadcast in the fall of 1989 and will be filmed throughout the world, featuring a wide range of social and behavioral scientists. The fund alloted another $1.8 million to South Carolina Educational Television for “Children’s Express,” a 10-year-old PBS news magazine to be reported by children 13 years or younger slated for the fall of 1988.