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Encyclopedia > Children's Television Workshop
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Sesame Workshop, formerly known as the Children's Television Workshop (or CTW), is a non-profit organization behind the production of several educational children's programs that have run on public broadcasting around the world (including PBS in the United States), as well as Noggin, a joint venture with Viacom's Nickelodeon. PBS re-directs here; for alternate uses see PBS (disambiguation) PBS logo The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 349 member TV stations in the United States. ... Noggin is a cable television network for preschoolers between 6AM and 6PM EST (3AM and 3PM PST). ... Viacom (short for Video & Audio Communications) (NYSE: VIA) is an international media conglomerate. ...


Originally founded by Joan Ganz Cooney to produce Sesame Street, the company, currently run by President and CEO Gary E Knell, has since produced many other shows and a variety of multimedia content. The CTW name was changed to Sesame Workshop in 2000 to reflect the company's reach into new media and capitalize on the worldwide recognition provided by the Sesame Street name. Joan Ganz Cooney is an American businesswoman and television producer. ... From A Celebration of Me, Grover, showing much of the main cast of Sesame Street. ...


In the 1980s, CTW created a series of video games under the name of Children's Computer Workshop, including Cookie Monster Munch and Alpha Beam with Ernie. Today the company also publishes Sesame Street Magazine in cooperation with Time Inc.'s Parenting magazine. At one time it also published Kid City, 3-2-1 Contact (later Contact Kids), and Sesame Street Parents magazines. Screenshot from Cookie Monster Munch Cookie Monster Munch is a video game developed by Atari and Childrens Computer Workshop for the Atari 2600 and released in 1983. ... Screenshot from Alpha Beam with Ernie Alpha Beam with Ernie was a video game for the Atari 2600 developed by Atari and Childrens Computer Workshop and released in 1983. ... Time Inc. ... 3-2-1 Contact was an American educational program which aired on PBS from 1980 to 1992. ...


Television Productions

(This list excludes Sesame Street co-productions outside the United States.) If you are looking for information about electric utilities, see electric company. ... 3-2-1 Contact was an American educational program which aired on PBS from 1980 to 1992. ... Square One, also known as Square One Television, was a television show produced by the Childrens Television Workshop to teach mathematics and abstract mathematical concepts to young viewers. ... Mathnet, a segment on Square One TV and spoof of Dragnet, featured detectives at the Los Angeles Police Department who solved mysteries using their mathematical skills. ... Ghostwriter, television series co-produced by what was then the Childrens Television Workshop and the BBC that aired on PBS in the United States from October 1992 to February 1995 and as reruns for some time after. ... Ghostwriter, television series co-produced by what was then the Childrens Television Workshop and the BBC that aired on PBS in the United States from October 1992 to February 1995 and as reruns for some time after. ... Dragon Tales is a childrens television series chronicling the adventures of the human children Max and Emmy (brother and sister respectively) — whom transport themselves to Dragon Land through the use of a magical dragon scale with the line, I wish, I wish with allmy heart to fly with dragons... In Chinese mythology, Sagwa is the ancestor of all Siamese cats. ... The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe is a fantasy novel for children by C. S. Lewis. ...


External links

  • Sesame Workshop: http://www.sesameworkshop.org


 

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