Reading Rainbow, one of the longest-running children’s shows on public television, broadcast its final episode Friday, National Public Radio reports.

No one, including PBS, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and the show’s home station, Buffalo’s WNED, would put up the several hundred thousand dollars needed to renew the 26-year-old show’s broadcast rights, said John Grant, who oversees shows at WNED.

In other arts news, British Columbia’s provincial government has slashed grants for cultural organizations, including some that had previously been guaranteed three years of support, says The Vancouver Sun. The $18.3-million in grant reductions follow a 40-percent cut in support for the B.C. Arts Council.

And The Charlotte Observer says that an anonymous donor has pledged $500,000 to the Charlotte Symphony if it can raise that much from other sources by December 31. The gift puts the symphony more than two-thirds of the way toward the $1.77-million goal of an emergency fund drive started in May.