Sesame Workshop



Formerly Children's Television Workshop, the company owns Sesame Street, DragonTales, Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat, The Electric Company and 3-2-1 Contact.

The Childrens Television Workshop was founded in 1968 by (I think) Joan Ganz Cooney as a non-profit organization for kids. On eof the first shows from that company was Sesame Street, which proved to be successful. Many other shows from the Childrens Television Workshop include The Electric Company, Square One TV and Big Bag.

In 1999, the Childrens Televiison Workshop, along with Nickelodeon, launched a kids channel called Noggin, featuring many classic kids shows from both companies. However, the Childrens Television orkshop sold it's half of the channels ownership a few years later.

In 2000, Children's Television Workshop changed it's name to Sesame Workshop, because by then the company had done a lot more than just television. Shortly afterwards, The Jim henson Company sold it's ownership of the Sesame Street Muppets, giving Sesamw Workshop the full rights to the Sesame Street muppets.

In 2005, Sesame Workshop, along with Comcast, PBS and Hit! Entertainment, launched a new cable channel called Sprout.

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