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2 major streamers come to the rescue of 'Sesame Street'

The future of “Sesame Street” was up in the air after Warner Bros. cut its funding in late 2024, but fans could breathe a ...

How ‘Sesame Street’ is navigating funding cuts, new media habits, and leaving HBO for Netflix

Sesame Workshop CEO Sherrie Westin discusses the challenges of the past year, partnering with Netflix, and why emotional well-being and kindness matter in today’s world. As Sesame Street’s 56th season ...

Arkansas commission votes to cut ties with PBS, rebrand stations as Arkansas TV

Arkansas is the first state to announce it will sever ties with the Public Broadcasting Service after funding from the ...
The Hollywood Reporter

PBS Survives in Alabama, for Now, After Move to Ax Funding Fails

A push from state TV Board members that would have prevented series like 'Sesame Street' and 'NewsHour' from broadcasting in the state failed in a vote on Tuesday. By Kevin Dolak Alabama’s Public ...
New York Sun

Alabama Considers Dropping ‘Sesame Street’ From Its Airwaves Entirely After Congress Cuts Off Funding for Public Broadcasting

Alabama may be the first state to drop “Sesame Street” and other iconic public television programming from its airwaves and cut ties with PBS after Congress cut off funding to the Corporation for ...
The Boston Globe

Tell us: Are you concerned about funding cuts to PBS and GBH Kids?

Recent cuts to public media are not just affecting local stations and news programming. They also pose a threat to public children’s and educational programming that reaches millions of kids across ...

Congress defunded PBS. Here's how it's surviving and planning for the future.

PBS CEO Paula Kerger talks about life after Congress defunded her: "The consequences are significant." ...
Wall Street Journal

The Fed’s Tool for Calming Short-Term Funding Markets Is Being Tested

The Federal Reserve is struggling to persuade some banks to use a lending tool designed to improve the central bank’s control over short-term money markets. Banks have made more use of the tool, ...
PBS

Wall Street rallies on AI and interest rate hopes

NEW YORK (AP) — Relief is running through Wall Street on Thursday, and the U.S. stock market is rallying after it seemed to pass a couple of crucial tests. Not only did Nvidia provide another ...
Wall Street Journal

Energy Department Cuts Two Major Clean-Energy Offices

WASHINGTON—The Energy Department is eliminating two of its biggest offices that channeled billions of dollars into clean-energy projects, another step in President Trump’s efforts to put a chokehold ...
Mercury News

Trump administration to divert billions of dollars from homeless housing programs

The Trump administration is moving forward with plans to divert billions of dollars in homelessness funding earmarked for permanent housing, a decision state and local officials warn could push ...
The Hour

Norwalk apartment projects will bring 150 units to city with state funding

NORWALK — Construction of a mixed used development with 102 one-bedroom apartments is scheduled to begin immediately at 24 Belden Avenue in Norwalk. Retail stores and a hotel will also be built at the ...