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CTW's "Third Alumni"?
The section "Gathering Talent" refers to "Sam Gibbon, CTW's third alumni." Huh? What in the heck does that mean? I assume you mean alumnus: alumni is plural. But even if you do mean alumnus, how could he have been an alumnus of the corporation before he joined the corporation? Do you mean "founding member" or something of that nature? If so, that's not what alumnus means. Figure out what you mean, and then say what you mean. As it is right now, it's complete and utter nonsense.
Didn't Sesame Workshop finally buy the rights to all of the "Sesame Street Muppets" outright during the last Muppets reorganization? Since this includes all of the Sesame characters other than Kermit, it makes big crossovers of the type found in "Muppet Family Christmas" and "The Muppets Take Manhattan" far less likely in the future. If anyone has this information it should be included and cited. 206.218.218.57 (talk) 18:38, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
That syndication package only aired from 1999 and in 2002 when SW sold its imterests they took the show off Noggin (TV channel) Matthew Cantrell (talk) 22:00, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
The article as it is currently written reads more like a history of Sesame Street, rather than a description and history of the Children's Television Workshop/Sesame Workshop. There are obscure references to "the show", without specifying which show (I assume it means Sesame Street). It also almost totally misses the other efforts in which CTW was involved. If it wasn't for the list-dump at the bottom of the article, and a glancing "oh, they did magazines too" reference or two, you would get the impression from the article that Sesame Street was all CTW/SW ever did. -- 76.204.101.11 (talk) 15:55, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
The current Sesame Workshop logo does not include the "house" in the logo. The logo just has the text "Sesame Workshop" in lowercase letters. The first Sesame Street logo kinda creeps me out. Please take it off. 24.183.52.110 (talk) 23:51, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
Oh, no! Now the third logo when it just pops up right away. 24.183.52.110 (talk) 23:51, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
While this section needs some copy editing, it should remain as a section in the Sesame Workshop article. This article isn't long enough to force separating sections and CTW/Sesame Workshop licensing efforts are not notable enough to warrant a dedicated article. --RadioFan (talk) 13:24, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
I've taken on improving Sesame Street and some related articles, and in my research, I've found something that probably should be added here. In this article's current state, however, I'm not sure where it belongs, so I thought I'd take the easy way out and simply place it on this talk page. I agree with the anonymous IP's estimation of this article above; some of the information here doesn't really fit. This article should probably be re-edited at some point, something that I'm not willing to do at the current time due to time constraints and commitment to other articles. Perhaps it will happen someday in the future. An example of what I'm talking about is that there's nothing about the structure of the SW as an organization. Gerald Lesser's book, Children and Television, talks about the early days of The Show and CTW. This article needs to include that information. I include what he says here about the National Board of Advisers, which he founded and chaired, for use at a later time. The wording of the below is just a suggestion, so it can be changed in any way.
Lesser states that unlike most advisory boards, which acted to simply "kosher a product created by others" (p. 43), CTW's board contributed substantially to the project's (i.e., Sesame Street) design and implementation. This shocked many of the board's first members, but they followed this suggestion, which was made by Cooney. One of the first things they did was direct Lesser to lead the curriculum seminars in the summer of 1968 (Lesser, pp. 43-44, see footnote on p. 44 for list of the original Board of Advisers). Christine (talk) 12:19, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
There has been much said in the Sesame Street literature about the SW/CTW "model", and that should be included in this article. According to Lesser, the main features of this model include "some important assumptions about children and how they learn from television, the priority given to high-quality production, and an organization that fostered mutual confidence among its members" (p. 239). Christine (talk) 12:30, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
Ah, another definition of the SW model (from G is For Growing, p. xvi): "This unique, ongoing integration of curriculum development, formative research, and summative research into the process of production has come to be known as the CTW model". Christine (talk) 03:20, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
Davis has a nice quote about the start of CTW, taken from a New York Times article written after CTW's first press conference in 1968, which he describes on pp. 127-131. It should be incorporated somehow into this article, including possibly looking for the original article on the internet. Davis' source is: Jack Gould, "TV: Focus on Programming for the Disadvantaged Child," New York Times, March 22, 1968, p. 95. I would add it, but I don't want to spend the time right now. Here's the quote: "Michael Dann, vice president of the Columbia Broadcasting System, hailed the workshop as conceivably one of the most important breakthroughs in the evolution of the mass medium" (Davis, p. 130). Christine (talk) 12:40, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
When was the name changed? The article states New Year's Day, but which year? Nutster (talk) 12:11, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
I stumbled upon this article [1] on Muppet Central, which states is from Reuters. That's a good website to start from in doing much SS research, so it may help. Christine (talk) 21:23, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
This article is on my very-long and ever-expanding list of Sesame Street-related articles I'd like to tackle. Like I've done for other articles, I'd like to have a clearinghouse of possible sources here on the talk page. See below.
I also recommend fishing through Sesame Street and History of Sesame Street for pertinent information, especially about history. Christine (Figureskatingfan)(talk) 23:46, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
Low ratings didn't cause the Workshop to sell its half to Viacom Media Networks, they did however cause Noggin to change its format/target audience. MuppetCentral states that Sesame Workshop needed money to pay back to EM.TV, and they signed an agreement that Viacom's Nickelodeon would fully own the network beginning August 7, 2002 Matthew Cantrell (talk) 06:01, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
On June 5, 2000. CW Was Changed to Sesame Workshop. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:81:8400:5ACD:5043:8CBB:9DF1:D91 (talk) 21:45, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
As I've mentioned previously on this talk page, I've had my eyes on this article for a few years now, but have never had the time and/or inclination to take it on. I feel ready to do so now. After re-reading it tonight, I've come to the conclusion that this article needs a complete overhaul, meaning that its entire content needs to be replaced by well-sourced and well-written content. I basically need to compile all the information from every source available and re-write this entire article. Fortunately, I have access to most of the salient sources about the Workshop; plus, I need to look for more information in journals and other sources. IOW, I need to do some research, and I'm stating my intention to do so now. This is potentially a huge project, one with my limited time, may take several months. I'll keep everyone posted as to my progress. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 04:38, 28 September 2013 (UTC)
Update: I've been able to do as I promised/threatened above, and am currently in the process of moving the new version from my sandbox to userspace. I think that the result is a much stronger article that better reflects the sources and is fitting of such an important organization. Something has come up, however, which I expected. Notice that in the new "Early years" section, I placed a template that refers to Sesame Workshop funding sources. I wonder if the funding sources article should be merged into this article; without the background and introductory sections there, which repeat much of the same information in this article, it wouldn't make this article all that much longer, anyway. I also think that it would take care of some of the issues about the funding sources article, some of which were brought up in its successful GAC. Its GA reviewer, after recommending that the article name change (which happened), demonstrated that it wasn't comprehensive enough. I suspect that the reason for that is that the content better belongs here. Consequently (and I'll put a note over there referring to this discussion), I suggest that we merge the funding sources with this article. I suspect that I'll get very little response, but I thought that I'd bring it up in the interest of full disclosure. If there's no major disagreement in a week or so, I'll go ahead and do the merge. Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 07:02, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
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Nominator: Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk)
Hi! My review for this article will be here shortly. --Seabuckthorn ♥ 03:39, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
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5: Stable: No edit wars, etc: Yes
6: Images Done (NFC with a valid FUR) (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license) (PD) (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license)
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I'm glad to see your work here. I do have some insights based on the above checklist that I think will improve the article:
Besides that, I think the article looks excellent. Christine, please feel free to strike out any recommendation from this review which you think will not help in improving the article, which is our main aim here. All the best, --Seabuckthorn ♥ 10:08, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
Promoting the article to GA status. --Seabuckthorn ♥ 20:23, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
Ironic, given the just-closed FAC: [2] Christine (Figureskatingfan) (talk) 14:21, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
Shouldn't this comprehensive featured article include the January 2016 exclusivity deal Sesame Workshop made with HBO (that was covered in the Sesame Street article)? —Prhartcom♥ 03:25, 20 May 2016 (UTC)
Encyclopedic content can be covered within the scope of the merge target, and would address the issues with the current article. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 18:09, 16 October 2023 (UTC)