'Sesame Street' jumps to Netflix after Trump threatens PBS funding
After 56 years on PBS, Big Bird and friends are finding new life on Netflix following President Donald Trump's threat to pull the plug on publicly-funded media, according to The Wall Street Journal.
"The streaming giant has reached an agreement to broadcast new episodes of 'Sesame Street,' giving the beloved children’s show a home after Warner Bros. Discovery said it was stepping away from the program," the report said.
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Netflix plans to air 90 hours of previous episodes, while new episodes "will also air on PBS stations and PBS Kids the same day they debut on Netflix," the report said.
The Journal quoted Sesame Workshop saying the deal serves “as a unique public-private partnership to enable ‘Sesame Street’ to continue to help children everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder."
Trump signed an executive order at the beginning of the month to end "taxpayer subsidization of biased media."