Mr. Rogers would have loved this remix

Remixing old TV clips into songs: it’s not just for students and frustrated musicians anymore. Now it’s an official, legal part of a network’s operation. This video, "Mister Rogers Remixed," is a production of PBS Digital Studios, remixing one of PBS’s flagship kids’ shows - and its famously gentle-voiced host, the late Fred Rogers – into a soothing song.

Rogers is even more well-suited to this kind of video than other stars who have been unoffically "songified," because his cooing, comforting delivery already has a musical inflection.

But now that PBS has done this, the floodgates for other networks to remix the voices of their own stars--instead of letting YouTube amateurs do it for them-- should open. 

Even PBS should probably get more aggressively into it. Who wouldn’t want to hear the donation-friendly accents on Downton Abbey underscored with a good, strong beat?