Claster Television [SEP] parent company
years. CBS offered to pick up the show, but the Clasters instead decided to syndicate and franchise it, by taping episodes and selling the tapes to local stations or giving the option to local stations to produce their own version of the show.
In 1969, Hasbro bought Romper Room Inc. and renamed it Claster Television Productions. Throughout the 1970s, Claster continued to make "Romper Room" and did not distribute anything else until 1978 when it brought the Japanese animated television series "Star Blazers" into the United States.
Claster Television
Claster Television, Inc. was a Baltimore, Maryland–based television distributor founded in 1953 by Bertram H. (Bert) Claster and Nancy Claster (Goldman) as Romper Room Inc. It was originally a producer of the children's show "Romper Room". "Romper Room" was one of the first pre-schoolchildren's programs, predating "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", "Sesame Street", and "Barney & Friends".
Production.
"Romper Room" was fairly successful in its early