Eventually, the children who absorbed the Sesame Street style as preschoolers would go on to make MTV, Nickelodeon cartoons and viral videos. But what Sesame Street was doing was thinking about how best to reach its audience, in ways the rest of TV at the time was slower to account for.”But it’s not just a snappy style that explains why Sesame Street has been on the air for 50 years. Their first wave of Muppet characters on Sesame Street – Grover, Oscar the Grouch, Bert and Ernie and the like – were good teachers. “We’re always looking back at classic segments and trying to stay true to Sesame Street as a community, as a thing that’s beloved by a lot of people.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest The cast of Sesame Street in 2004. This [outrage] really positioned Sesame Street and its educational mission as something the public had a right to.”Lehmann points out that the public still has plenty of access to Sesame Street.

Source: The Guardian November 11, 2019 15:38 UTC