Sesame Workshop
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Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Children's Television Workshop (or CTW), is a non-profit organization behind the production of several educational children's programs that have run on public broadcasting around the world (including PBS in the United States), as well as Noggin. Noggin signed on January 31, 1999, as a 50-50 joint venture between CTW and Viacom's Nickelodeon. In 2004, Sesame Workshop sold its share of Noggin to Viacom. Currently, Sesame Workshop owns a stake in the digital cable network PBS Kids Sprout, along with Comcast, PBS, and HIT Entertainment.
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History
Originally founded by Joan Ganz Cooney and Ralph Rogers to produce Sesame Street, the company, currently run by President and CEO Gary E Knell, has since produced many other shows and a variety of multimedia content. The CTW name was changed to Sesame Workshop in 2000 to reflect the company's reach into new media and capitalize on the worldwide recognition provided by the Sesame Street name.
In the 1980s, CTW created a series of video games under the name of Children's Computer Workshop, including Cookie Monster Munch and Alpha Beam with Ernie. Today the company also publishes Sesame Street Magazine in cooperation with Time Inc.'s Parenting magazine. At one time it also published "The Electric Company", Kid City, 3-2-1 Contact (later Contact Kids), and Sesame Street Parents magazines.
In August 1997, Fox Family started efforts to increase its quantity and quality of children's entertainment, "which could lead to an equity investment by Fox in the non-profit CTW in exchange for programs for its Family Channel." Nothing ever materialised.<ref name="foxctwkids">Template:Cite news, accessed through EBSCOhost.</ref>
Notable people at Sesame Workshop
- Gary E. Knell, President, CEO
- Stan O'Neal, Chairman of the Board
- Content
- Karen Gruenberg, Executive Vice President, Content
- Liz Nealon, Senior Vice President, Creative (4 January 2005 on, position created for Nealon, reports to EVP content)
- Anna E. Housley-Juster, Director of Content, Sesame Street Research Team
- Dr. Lewis Bernstein, Executive Producer of Sesame Street
- Carol-Lynn Parente, Senior Producer of Sesame Street
- Distribution
- Terry Fitzpatrick, Executive Vice President, Distribution
- Education and Research
- Rosemarie Truglio PhD, Vice President of Education and Research
International
- Daniel Victor, Executive Vice President, International
- Consumer Products
- Liz Kalodner, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Global Consumer Products
- Corporate Affairs
- Sherrie Westin, Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Education and Development
- Legal and Business Affairs Department
- Richard Siegmeister, wrote the cease and desist letter to i-mockery.com (see Sesame Street trivia)
- Public Policy
- Tracy Garrett, Director of Public Policy (19 January 2005 on, position based out of Washington, D.C.).
- Talent Relations
- Lisa Mogull, Director <ref>[1]</ref>
Former
- David Britt, president and chief executive, as of August 1997<ref name="foxctwkids">Template:Cite news, accessed through EBSCOhost.</ref>
Productions
Television series
- Sesame Street (1969-present)
- The Electric Company (1971-1977)
- Feeling Good (1974-1975)
- 3-2-1 Contact (1980-1988)
- Square One (including Mathnet, 1987-1992)
- Ghostwriter (1992-1995)
- Cro (1993-1994) (in conjunction with the National Science Foundation and DPS Film Roman)
- Big Bag (1996-1998)
- The New Ghostwriter Mysteries (1997)
- Dragon Tales (1999-present) (in conjunction with Sony Pictures Television)
- Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (2001-present)
- Sponk! (2001-2003?)
- Tiny Planets (2001-present)
- Play with Me Sesame (2002-present)
- The Little Carousel (starts 2006)
- The Upside Down Show (starts 2006)
- Bert and Ernie (starts 2006)
- Open Sesame
Telefilms and miniseries
- Out to Lunch (1974 telefilm)
- The Best of Families (1977 mini-series)
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1979 telefilm)
- House of Dies Drear (1984 telefilm)
This list excludes Sesame Street co-productions outside the United States.
Footnotes
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