Reading Out Loud

• 1960-1960
• 1 season
• Documentary

Famous people read favorite literary selections aloud to a small group of children, often relatives of the reader. In 1960, Virginia Winslow Hopper Mathews created the children's TV series Reading Out Loud with Westinghouse Broadcasting executive Mike Santangelo. Produced by Westinghouse for syndication, the show featured notable figures reading aloud their favorite books, speeches and literature to children, including Jacking Robinson discussing and reading The Gettysburg Address to his family, broadcast May 1, 1960 . It debuted February 7, 1960 on the five TV stations owned by Westinghouse in Baltimore, Boston, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. READING OUT LOUD also opened on WNTA-TV, prior it becoming a Public Television Station (WNET-TV) in New York City and 46 educational TV stations around the U.S. It ran as a half-hour show for 15 episodes.