>I assume that Sesame Street must have received a significant amount of public funding over the years, from governments, while it was being broadcast on public

>I assume that Sesame Street must have received a significant amount of public funding over the years, from governments, while it was being broadcast on public television. The Republican party has been battling to keep that significant amount of public funding as close to zero since PBS was founded. There was the famous Mr Rogers testimony in Washington DC (where the Corporation for Public Broadcasting managed to prevail) and there was the Gingrich era where the stated goal was to shut down CPB: https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/17/us/gingrich-foresees-a-world-without-public-broadcasting.html https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/17/us/gingrich-foresees-a-wo...