Sesame Workshop

Created and funded by the Children’s Television Workshop, an organization founded and supported by the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, and the U.S. Office of Education, Sesame Street used production techniques pioneered in advertising—fast cutting, catchy music, amusing characters and situations—to teach preschoolers the alphabet, counting, and basic reading, arithmetic,…

…show has been produced by Sesame Workshop (formerly Children’s Television Workshop), a New York City-based nonprofit organization founded by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett. Though the show initially aired 130 episodes each season, an eventual decline in funding resulted in seasons of fewer than 30 episodes by the early…

…the Children’s Television Workshop (now Sesame Workshop), producing such educational children’s programs as the influential and long-running Sesame Street and The Electric Company and eventually serving as president (1970–88), chair and CEO (1988–90), and chair of the executive committee (1990–2020). In 2007 the Sesame Group created the Joan Ganz Cooney…

After the Children’s Television Workshop’s program Sesame Street began appearing on television in 1969, featuring the Muppets, Henson and his humanoid animals achieved extraordinary nationwide popularity.