Posted on 08/13/2015 9:31:39 AM PDT by jeannineinsd
The letters of the day on “Sesame Street” are H, B and O.
Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit group behind the children’s television program, has struck a deal with HBO, the premium cable network, that will bring the next five seasons of “Sesame Street” to HBO and its streaming outlets starting this fall.
The partnership will allow Sesame Workshop to significantly increase its production of “Sesame Street” episodes and other new programming. The group will produce 35 new “Sesame Street” episodes a year, up from the 18 it produces now. Sesame Workshop also will create a spinoff series based on the “Sesame Street” Muppets and another new educational series for children.
After nine months of programming exclusively on HBO, the shows also will be available free on PBS, its home for the last 45 years. “Sesame Street” will also continue its run on PBS this fall, with the season featuring a selection of episodes from the last several seasons edited in new ways.
- snip- Sesame’s partnership with HBO comes at a critical time for the children’s television group. Historically, less than 10 percent of the funding for “Sesame Street” episodes came from PBS, with the rest financed through licensing revenue, such as DVD sales. Sesame’s business has struggled in recent years because of the rapid rise of streaming and on-demand viewing and the sharp decline in licensing income. About two-thirds of children now watch “Sesame Street” on demand and do not tune in to PBS to watch the show.
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This was news to me. Every time funding for PBS is discussed, Sesame Street is trotted out. Decreasing funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is equated with killing Big Bird. Now we find out that less than 10% of this show's funding came from PBS. Where is the rest of the taxpayer money going, if not to Sesame Street?
Sesame Street - now, with transgendered muppets.
Finally, we'll get the profanity, gritty realism, and graphic sex scenes this show has been missing. pic.twitter.com/nwA7Azutgd— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) August 13, 2015
A large portion of our tax dollars probably goes to the R&D of “Green” projects; such as making fuel out of sea algae, at a retail cost of $145. per gallon, and selling this expensive fuel to industries on a contractual basis.
“If PBS Doesn’t Do It, Who Will?” - I guess that old question got answered.
LGQBT or whatever who have abortions...it will be interesting how they will try to brainwash kids on how they should have been killed before they were born. It’s not like they need an audience to get paid.
The other 23 hours of programming that barely gets watched.
Over a decade ago, PBS had a slogan of “If we don’t do it, who will?”
I had a liberal friend spout that to me and she was quite livid when I said:
“The Learning Channel, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, Nickelodeon, CNN...”
See this thread where he says Fox News gets its marching orders from Rush Limbaugh...
These people have no sense of propriety or decorum when it comes to social media and their professional lives.
Bert and Ernie....will now come out of the closet
Of course I want to watch Home Box Office because of Sesame Street. Of course I will subscribe because of it.
/Naught
Megyn Kelly will be SS’ new anchor very shortly.
Bert & Ernie will be StemExpress employees that will buy aborted Grouch offspring parts from Planned Muppethood.
There will be no outrage as these parts would have gone in the garbage anyways as that's where Grouch and his kin live.
AHAHAHAHAHA
great extrapolationin.
The Food Network, Cooking Channel, DIY, Etc Etc Etc..
"I don't want to work
I want to bang on the drum all day"
Todd Rundgren - Bang on the Drum All Day:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZclddLcOYYA
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