Sesame Workshop

Sesame Workshop

Formation	1968
Type	Non-profit subsidiary
Headquarters	1 Lincoln Plaza
Location	New York City, New York
Area served	Worldwide
Owner	Independent (1968-2022) Hasbro (2022-present)
President and CEO	Jeffrey D. Dunn
Key people	Joan Ganz Cooney (co-founder) Lloyd Morrisett (co-founder)
Website	sesameworkshop.org
Formerly called	Children's Television Workshop (1968–2000)

Sesame Workshop is a company established in 1968. It was called Children's Television Workshop (CTW) until 2000. The Workshop is an American non-profit organization for the research and production of educational children's programs.

The Workshop oversaw the production of Sesame Street, a television show for pre-school children from low-income families. Two years were spent, from 1966 to 1968, researching, developing, and raising money for the new show. It was called "one of the most important television developments of the decade".^[1]

Sesame Street was designed in 1969.

Co-founder Joan Ganz Cooney said of the CTW model: "From the beginning, we—the planners of the project—designed the show as an experimental research project with educational advisers, researchers, and television producers collaborating as equal partners".^[2] She described the collaboration as an "arranged marriage".^[3]

In 2022, Hasbro acquired Sesame Workshop and Sesame Street.

On July 24, 2023, Cartoon Network Studios currently went defunct, and later became a replacement of the Workshop.

1. ↑ Davis, Michael 2008. Street Gang: the complete history of Sesame Street. New York: Viking Penguin. ISBN 978-0-670-01996-0
2. ↑ Borgenicht, David 1998. Sesame Street unpaved. New York: Hyperion, 9. ISBN 0-7868-6460-5
3. ↑ Cooney, Joan Ganz 2001. Foreword. In Fisch, Shalom M. and Truglio, Rosemarie T. (eds) 2001. "G" is for Growing: thirty years of research on children and Sesame Street. Mahweh, New Jersey: Erlbaum, xi. ISBN 0-8058-3395-1