r/RealTwitterAccounts • u/Infamous-Echo-3949 • 8d ago

Political™ Leave the kids alone!

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u/BluRobynn 8d ago

Doesn't HBO own Sesame Street now?

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u/Lithl 8d ago

It currently streams on HBO Max in addition to airing on PBS. HBO doesn't own it, Sesame Workshop does.

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u/Adorable-Condition83 8d ago

Could sesame street still continue to produce episodes with their own money and broadcast for free online?

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u/Lithl 8d ago

In 2019, federal funding made up 5% of Sesame Workshop's budget. It's unlikely that Muskrat would cause Sesame Street to stop being created, and even without PBS it would likely be able to find a home on a privately owned station, and would almost certainly continue streaming on a privately owned streaming platform like it already does on Max.

Today, 14% of PBS's funding comes from the government. If it solely came down to funding, they might be able to survive that loss (probably with more pledge drives and stuff), but aside from actual money PBS also depends on state governments to exist at all. I can visualize a world where the Trump administration withholds federal funding to states that don't shut down PBS in an attempt to bully them out of existence in blue states that would otherwise have let it keep going.

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u/Temperature-Other 7d ago

Yes. And it came out they are not making new episodes already

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u/BluRobynn 7d ago

My children in 10+ never watched it once. I guess it is dead.

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u/BluRobynn 7d ago

My children are 10+ never watched it once. I guess it is dead.