PBS has filed a complaint with California officials over a scheduled May 31 fund-raising event staged by a California teenager who styles himself the successor to the children’s-television icon Fred Rogers, the public broadcasting journal Current reports.

Michael Kinsell, 18, of San Diego, bills the event as a tribute to the late host of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” and says it will raise money for “children’s public television” and a new show of his own entitled “Michael’s Enchanted Neighborhood.”

In a complaint filed with the state attorney general’s office, PBS accused Mr. Kinsell of “falsely claiming association” with Mr. Rogers in event publicity in a manner that could divert funds to his nonprofit group from PBS and Family Communications, the production company owned by the Rogers family.