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Sesame Street was an expensive program to produce because the creators decided they needed to compete with other programs that invested in professional, high quality production. [41] Jim Henson, (1989), creator of the Muppets. Henson was initially reluctant to become involved with a children's show, but agreed to do so. [42]
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.
Sesame Street Around the World: The Sesame Street Experiment: 1990 Sing! Sesame Street Remembers Joe Raposo and His Music: 1991 Big Bird's Birthday or Let Me Eat Cake: 1993 Sesame Street: 25 Favorite Moments: Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration: Sesame Street Stays Up Late! 1994 Sesame Street All-Star 25th Birthday: Stars and Street Forever!
3-2-1 Contact was the brainchild of Samuel Y. Gibbon Jr., who had been the executive producer of the original The Electric Company for the CTW from 1971 to 1977. (Gibbon had left the CTW before Contact's production officially began, though he was still credited as "Senior Consultant".)
On 22 March 2005, Apax Partners purchased HIT for £489.4 million, [20] taking it private, [21] with former BBC director general Greg Dyke becoming chairman. [22] [23] On 26 August 2005, HIT announced an agreement with NBCUniversal, PBS, and Sesame Workshop to launch the world's first 24-hour preschool television channel entitled PBS Kids Sprout, with HIT supplying programming for the channel ...
Square One Television (sometimes referred to as Square One or Square One TV) is an American children's television program produced by the Children's Television Workshop (now known as Sesame Workshop) to teach mathematics and new abstract mathematical concepts to young viewers.
Sony Wonder released the special on DVD in 2004, and was reissued by Genius Entertainment and Warner Home Video in 2008 and 2010, respectively. The 2017 Amazon Video digital download release, reinstated the special's original title of Sesame Street Stays Up Late.
October 29, 1993 () Sesame Street: 25 Wonderful Years is the home video version of Sesame Street Jam: A Musical Celebration , a special aired on PBS during their pledge drive on March 6, 1994, that commemorates Sesame Street ’s 25th anniversary in 1994.