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After the first nine months of airing new episodes exclusively on HBO, Sesame Street will also be available on PBS for free. NPR takes a look at the agreement and its possible consequences.

When Sesame Street debuted 50 years ago, it was a game-changer for children's TV, with a multicultural cast and some wildly funny Muppets.

But Sesame Street isn't vacating its old neighborhood, NPR's Neda Ulaby reports. She tells our Newscast unit that: "Re-edited old episodes will still be on PBS, where it has lived for 45 years.

Elmo is getting a talk show. Sesame Workshop and HBO Max announced a deal for a new slate of Sesame Street programming. We have news of a major celebrity this morning, one we follow closely on NPR ...

At a recent taping of NPR's Ask Me Another, expecting mother and host Ophira Eisenberg asked the woman many of us know as "Maria" to recommend some must-show-your-children Sesame Street moments.

Sesame Street, the award-winning children's program turns 50 this year. As the iconic TV program has aged, it has managed to stay musically apace with its forever-young audience.

When Sesame Street made its TV debut in 1969, it was thanks to Joan Ganz Cooney, co-creater of the show and of the Children's Television Workshop. She laid out the vision, hustled the money and ...

I watch and write about TV for a living, and it's all Sesame Street's fault. As a kid in the '80s, I'd sit on the living room floor eating raisins, ready for my first appointment TV. Mister Rogers ...