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On Mar 5, 6:28 pm, "Ed Huntress" wrote:



Is your pedant mode on, Dan? g You know the figures, right? The total
Sesame Workshop contribution from CPB is around 1.7%.

Ed Huntress

I thought that Sesame Street was a money maker and contributed to CPB,
not the other way around.

I haven't kept up with the funding wars for PBS, but the last time I
looked, Sesame Street's corporate sponsorship, etc., was being used to
fund the many worldwide projects of Sesame Workshop (which grew out of the
Children's Television Workshop, the producer of Sesame Street). The
federal government funding is basically a token arrangement, which serves
both as a lightning rod for anti-PBS activity and as a connecting link to
the original government support. The idea of public television is that it
is of and for the public, and government backing is a part of that
relationship.

Full disclosu I worked for PBS's predecessor, NET, in 1969.

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Ed Huntress



Have you seen the Sesame Street rec park
in Eastern PA?

Dan

Whoop, I missed that last question. No, I haven't been in there, but I drive
by it.

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Ed Huntress