Posted on 03/31/2025 9:02:02 AM PDT by DallasBiff
The future of the long-running children's TV show Sesame Street is in jeopardy after a U.S. House DOGE subcommittee called the chief executive of PBS to Capitol Hill to testify on Wednesday, with a potential aim of wiping out its funding.
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The Sesame Street franchise makes millions and would be fine without taxpayer money.
Sesame Street has been outrageously profitable for many decades. Where did the money go?
Great news!
To hell with the POS!!!
Democrat campaigns.
Typical liberal fearmongering. If the program is worthy the companies will buy advertising time.
Here we go....
Even if no other sesame street show was ever made there should be more than enough content for the average person to fill his/her sesame street watching years with a new show every day. Those few who watch every day for 40 years might see some repeats but they likely have other problems to worry about.
It’s so simple. All Sesame Street has to do is run some appropriate and carefully screened advertising. Just like any other TV show.
But they are way too good for that.
Better to siphon tax money from farmers and factory workers.
No it’s not. Sesame Street actually makes a profit. It will go on, what is at risk is left-wing NPR news.
Nonsense. Elmo and Oscar are billionaires living in White Pine Canyon. They’ll be fine without the govt dimes.
Check this out, another reporter based in London...
I thought that woman testified PBS doesn’t own Sesame Street.
PBS and NPR will be fine without government handouts. The FCC ought to make them re-license rather than letting the licensing and requirements for station establishment slide.
The public could verify that by the change in callsigns.
How would George Washington ever have learned to count to 3 or know which one of those things didn't belong there?
SS is a child grooming act. Kill it off.
I posted this back in December before President Trump took office:
In response to the article We May Finally See the End of PBS and NPR
This is a dead argument and is now moot.In 2016, Sesame Street sold first-airing rights to HBO in exchange for HBO covering the production costs of new episodes. PBS had the rights to broadcast the new episodes one month later than HBO.
This deal expires at the end of this year and HBO has declined to renew, leaving Sesame Street with no one to cover future production costs.
PBS can no longer trot out Big Bird and Bert and Ernie to beg for money.
Sesame Street was Dead Bird Walking long before DOGE began when they lost their production sponsor at the end of 2024.
-PJ
The Funding for Sesame Street was brought to you by the letters F, A, F, and O. . . (evil grin)
They don’t. It’s owned by The Sesame Workshop, formerly known as The Children’s Television Workshop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame_Workshop
Right? If PBS goes belly up Sesame Street would move to one of the big legacy networks or to a streaming service without a propped. Why? Because Sesame Street is a viable product while PBS and most of its crappy programming is not.
Sesame Street’s Future Is in Jeopardy
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Too bad Marni Rose McFall’s future isn’t in jeopardy.
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