Once again Sesame Workshop is handing out pink slips. Around 30 employees at the producers of Sesame Street were let go yesterday. This comes just more than a year after a dozen employees were shown the door at the non-profit last May.
“We at Sesame Workshop are not immune to the challenges of today’s economic environment. After careful review, we have concluded that we must operate, and achieve our strategic priorities with fewer resources. Therefore, we have reluctantly determined that we must reduce our workforce by approximately 10%,” said CEO H. Melvin Ming in a note sent to staff.
Among those who have been let go are former Newsweek Inc CEO and Nickelodeon executive Tom Ascheim, who joined the company in March 2012 as EVP of the Sesame Learning program. Sesame Learning will be absorbed into other divisions of the company, Ming said.
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What does this have to do with us?
I guess Sesame Street must teach kids about economics.
In all seriousness they should really hand Grover a pink slip. He’s annoying.
Is this the only piece of “bad news” you ever reported that it gets that piece of info in the headline?
It’s not easy when you have no green . . .
Goodbye and good riddance to this fount of Leftist propaganda and indoctrination.
Awwww…Will Snuffy have to revert to being imaginary again?
This is a wonderful program that is core to the education of most Americans. The loss of sesame street would mean that kids are left to watch in educational or possibly harmful programming.
If you support traditional values of education and peaceful coexistence, you should support sesame street.