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Joan Ganz Cooney (born Joan Ganz; November 30, 1929) is an American television writer and producer. She is one of the founders of Sesame Workshop (formerly Children's Television Workshop or CTW), the organization famous for the creation of the children's television show Sesame Street , which was co-created by her.
Joan Ganz Cooney Lloyd Morrisett: The Muppets Studio (The Walt Disney Company) Sesame Workshop: Ultra Series 1966 $7.4 billion: Merchandise sales – $7.4 billion [cg] Box office – $1.1 million [317] Home media – $1.4 million [318] Television series Eiji Tsuburaya: Tsuburaya Productions (Bandai Namco Holdings) Madden NFL: 1998 $7 billion
CTW Co-founder Joan Ganz Cooney, in 1985 Co-founder Lloyd Morrisett, in 2010. In the winter of 1966, Joan Ganz Cooney hosted what she called "a little dinner party" [8] at her apartment near Gramercy Park. Attending were her husband Tim Cooney, her boss Lewis Freedman, and Lloyd and Mary Morrisett, whom the Cooneys knew socially. [9]
Sesame Street was conceived in 1966 during discussions between television producer Joan Ganz Cooney and Carnegie Foundation vice president Lloyd Morrisett.Their goal was to create a children's television show that would "master the addictive qualities of television and do something good with them," [16] such as helping young children prepare for school.
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Westin is chair of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, an independent research and innovation lab named for Sesame Street’s founder. [7] She serves on the boards of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition , [ 8 ] Communities in Schools , [ 9 ] and Vital Voices Global Partnership . [ 10 ]
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