The Market Works!
“Trump Hates Big Bird! Says Ernie and Burt Are Too Gay!” ~ News at Eleven
*SMIRK*
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.
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
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.
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.
Good for Sesame Street.
Don’t want to see them tank. But there is no reason why government should be in that business. That is 100% something which should be in the private sector.
Excellent! That’s how “the media” should work!
I don’t understand why they keep making new episodes. Aren’t they all mostly the same? Aren’t there already so many episodes that if a small child began watching the series from the start, they’d age out long before seeing every episode?
And there you go… Capitalism.
This headline is meant to be technically true (they are starting on Netflix after the funding was cut) but imply a lie of causality. The deal to move to Netflix was made BEFORE funding for NPR was cut.
Sesame Street brings in hundreds of millions in money for merchandising. And as you can see, it is something the private sector will sponsor, unlike a lot of the pablum on the network.
winning.
The more streaming media channels pick up popular programs, the more PBS donations and member station donation telethon fundraisers will leave. I look forward to someone picking up the Viking sponsored Master Piece Theater and other popular and sponsored programs. Many more will spell the end to PBS.