BizKids Getting Closer To Airing ON PBS

SEATTLE - The producers of BizKids, the TV program aimed at kids that teaches financial lessons and which is a joint project of the National CU Foundation and Junior Achievement, said they should know within two weeks how many PBS stations will be picking the program up. Thirteen episodes have already been filmed, most in a Seattle studio by the same team that produced the acclaimed "Bill Nye The Science Guy," and two episodes are ready to go. The 10 kids who star in the show have also been taken to various locations for filming around the country. Producers told the Credit Union Journal they are confident the program will be picked up by PBS affiliates, and 26 episodes are in the process of being created in all. Unlike network television, local PBS stations use their own discretion to decide which programs to buy and air. The only mention of credit unions in the program is at the top and bottom of the program when the message, "America's Credit Unions: Where People Are Worth More Than Money" is aired. Credit unions have pledged more than $2.6-million through various sources to underwrite production of the program.