Rogers moved the show from CBC back to WQED in Pittsburgh in 1966. He had been working in Toronto on CBC's Misterogers, but returned to the station where his television career had begun.
Rogers acquired the rights to the Canadian program and brought its developing format, characters, sets, and props back to Pittsburgh. At WQED, he reshaped it as Misterogers' Neighborhood, which initially aired regionally through the Eastern Educational Network and included material adapted from the CBC episodes.
The date is sometimes confused with 1967, when the program was canceled because of insufficient funding and then rescued by new financial support. It is also distinct from 1968, the year the show made its first national broadcast on National Educational Television. PBS inherited the series when it replaced NET in 1970.