Sesame Street's Pride Month message prompted Republican outrage and renewed calls to defund PBS amid President Trump's ...

But making “Sesame ... social challenges we cannot afford to ignore.” Parental involvement is inevitably less likely when there is only one parent at home. This is not a “Sesame Street ...

Other longtime television franchises and classic genres of broadcast and cable are facing similar challenges. In a concession that change is needed, beginning next year “Sesame Street” will ...

And while the majority of funding for Sesame Street comes from licensing ... technological change also comes an existential business challenge. Sesame Workshop recently lost a $30-35 million ...

On the day of the election, Sesame launched a last-minute challenge to throw ... executive order ending federal funding to NPR and PBS. PBS is one of Sesame Street’s distribution networks ...

The White House’s targeting of funds for public broadcasters doesn’t mean Sesame Street is going away. Government funding makes up only 4 percent of the revenue received by Sesame Workshop ...

Funding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) – which distributes funds to public media and public radio stations ...

A rumor that circulated online in May 2025 claimed mean-spirited "Sesame ... Street" characters parodying Donald Trump in past decades were what prompted the U.S. president to eliminate federal ...