How ‘Sesame Street’ is navigating funding cuts, new media habits, and leaving HBO for Netflix

Sesame Workshop CEO Sherrie Westin discusses the challenges of the past year, partnering with Netflix, and why emotional well ...
Black Enterprise

SZA Shows Support For Sesame Street Amid Attacks On PBS Funding

Grammy-nominated artist SZA is showing love for Sesame Street and expressing a desire to create peaceful children’s music to fulfill the final albums in her current recording contract. Despite her ...
The New York Sun

Alabama Considers Dropping ‘Sesame Street’ From Its Airwaves Entirely After Congress Cuts Off Funding for Public Broadcasting

In July, Congress voted to cut off $1.1 billion in federal funding for the CPB, which provided grants to public radio and ...
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'Elmo sad': Sesame Street star 'fired' in viral LinkedIn post after Trump cuts PBS Kids funding

Times are tough when even Elmo is out of a job. A LinkedIn post purportedly written by Sesame Street’s most lovable red Muppet has gone viral. It has captured the internet’s imagination in the wake of ...
The Hill

Let’s take ‘Sesame Street’ out of the equation for PBS funding

As Congress threatens to defund public broadcasting, the defenders of PBS and NPR keep defending themselves by pointing to the importance of their longstanding signature program: “Sesame Street.” At a ...
The New York Times

Why Does Big Bird Look So Sad?

Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind “Sesame Street,” is confronting what executives have described as a “perfect storm” of problems. Credit...Mark Lennihan/Associated Press Supported by By John ...
Fox News

Sesame Street's Pride Month post sparks backlash from Republican lawmakers amid PBS funding threats

Republican lawmakers called to defund PBS after the television station’s long-running children’s show, "Sesame Street," celebrated LGBTQ "Pride" Month on social media. The children’s show went viral ...