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Posted on 05/20/2025 5:59:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Sesame Street and Netflix have struck a deal that will see the popular TV show appear on the streaming platform, after US President Donald Trump pulled funding for the free-to-air channel Public Broadcasting Service (PBS).
Netflix said the iconic programme is a "beloved cornerstone of children's media, enchanting young minds and nurturing a love of learning".
Netflix will offer its 300 million subscribers a new season of the show and 90 hours of previous episodes, and it will still also be available on PBS.
Sesame Street was also facing an uncertain future after entertainment giant Warner Bros Discovery, which owns the HBO platform, did not renew its deal with the half a century old programme.
Earlier this month, Trump issued an executive order to block federal funding for PBS and the National Public Radio (NPR) network, alleging they engaged in "biased and partisan news coverage".
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“Trump Hates Big Bird! Says Ernie and Burt Are Too Gay!” ~ News at Eleven
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Good. Finally.
Which demonstrates that good programs PBS aired which are popular did not need public funding all along. Thanks for demonstrating the point Beeb.
Though being heavily publicly funded yourselves and since an ever larger share of the British public doesn’t trust or watch your leftist globalist Gaia worshiping propaganda anymore, I can see why you are particularly sensitive about this subject.
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True.
Well said.
Such lies... Et tu, BBC?
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
So Ernie cheated on Rubber Ducky after telling him he was “the one”?
Sesame street is a good show. I’m sure it will be supported.
We funded sesame street? Our Congress is waaaay out of control. It can’t be fixed. It needs to be dismantled, the freeloading people masquerading as Congress removed, and rebuilt from scratch.
Looking at the lineup on netflix, they'll take the bad programs as well.
Tax dollars may still subsidize the making of the show, correct?
This is just about where it’s distributed.
BS! Sesame Street got axed from hbo max. It had 0 to do with funding for PBS, which Netflix is NOT.
Though Netflix is woke…
If HBO didn’t want to pay for it, why should the government?
Let another company pick it up.
Oh, look, that’s what happened.
Sesame Street isn’t going away.
fine with me. Screw public funding.
I dumped Netflix many months ago. Sick of their woke crap.
Maybe they can revive PBS’s “The Electric Company” using solar power and windmill farms.
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