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Sesame Street premiered on the 10th of November 1969. It was created by television producer Joan Ganz Cooney and Carnegie Foundation vice president Lloyd Morrisett, who conceived the idea during discussions in 1966.
As of 2022, Sesame Street has won 222 Emmy Awards and 11 Grammy Awards, more than any other children's show in history.
In 2015, Sesame Workshop struck a deal with HBO to air first-run episodes due to funding challenges. The arrangement allowed the Workshop to increase production from 18 to 35 episodes per season, though critics argued it disadvantaged low-income families who lacked access to premium cable.
By Sesame Street's 50th anniversary in 2019, 190 million children were viewing over 160 versions of the show across 70 languages. In 2009, at its 40th anniversary, the show was broadcast in more than 140 countries.
The CTW Model is a production system developed by the Children's Television Workshop that combines receptive producers with child science experts, a specific age-appropriate curriculum, research that directly shapes production, and independent measurement of viewers' learning. Harvard professors Gerald S. Lesser and Edward L. Palmer were central to its design.
In May 1970, the Mississippi state commission that operated the state's PBS station voted not to air Sesame Street because of its racially integrated cast of children, which commission members said the state was not yet ready for.