Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Children's Television Workshop (or CTW), is a Worldwide American 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).
Founded by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett to produce Sesame Street, the company, currently run by President and CEO Gary E. Knell, has since produced many othe...
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Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Children's Television Workshop (or CTW), is a Worldwide American 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).
Founded by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett 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.
Moving to Carnegie Corporation of New York, the grant-issuing foundation, to act and advise independent of what is now WNET, Cooney began laying the groundwork for the Children's Television Workshop. Carnegie hired Linda Gotley to help Cooney write the proposal. Barbara Finberg and Lloyd Morrisett, program officers at...
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