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.

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., accessed through EBSCOhost.

Notable people at Sesame Workshop

• Gary E. Knell, President, CEO
• Joan Ganz Cooney, Co Founder
• Ralph Rogers, Co Founder

Content

Liz Nealon, Executive Vice President, Creative Director

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

Corey L. Galloway, Director of Production for Television, Film, and Home Video

Distribution

• Terry Fitzpatrick, Executive Vice President, Distribution

Education and Research

• Rosemarie Truglio PhD, Vice President of Education and Research

International Global Strategy

• Daniel J. Victor, Executive Vice President, International Global Strategy
• Shari Rosenfeld, Vice President, Developing and Emerging Markets

Consumer Products

• Maura Regan, 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

Talent Relations

• Lisa Mogull, Director [link]

Productions

Television series

• Sesame Street (1969-present)
• The Electric Company (1971-1977)
• Feeling Good (1974-1975)
• Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1978)
• 3-2-1 Contact (1980-1988)
• Bloodhound Gang (1980-1988)
• Square One (including Mathnet, 1987-1992)
• Zak Tales (1990-1991)
• Ghostwriter (1992-1995)
• Cro (1993-1994) (in conjunction with the National Science Foundation and DPS Film Roman)
• William's Wish Wellingtons (1994-1997) (in conjuction with BBC 1 and Hibbert Ralph)
• Big Bag (1996-1998)
• The New Ghostwriter Mysteries (1997)
• Koki (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)
• Pecola (2001)
• 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

External links

• [Sesame Workshop]
• [Muppet Wiki: Sesame Workshop]

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