The Electric Company
1971
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Joan Ganz Cooney (b. November 30, 1929) began her career as a reporter in her hometown of Phoenix, Arizona. From 1954 to 1962 she worked as a publicist for NBC in New York and for the U.S. Steel Hour , a highly acclaimed CBS drama series.
Joan Ganz Cooney. Joan Ganz Cooney co-founded the Children’s Television Workshop (since renamed Sesame Workshop) in 1968 and has created children’s programming, including Sesame Street, The Electric Company, 3-2-1 Contact, and Dragon Tales, for more than three decades.
In her four-and-a-half-hour interview, Joan Ganz Cooney talks about her early involvement in public television in New York, where she worked as a producer for local station WNET. She discusses the creation of the Children's Television Workshop (CTW), and the academic hurdles she overcame in 1969 to create and produce the internationally ...
May 23, 2018 · Joan Ganz Cooney, president of Children's Television Workshop for more than two decades, was instrumental in transforming children's television and preschool education in the United States in the late twentieth century.
A New York public television producer, Joan Ganz Cooney, founded the innovative Children's Television Workshop (C.T.W.) in 1968, with foundation and government funding. Quickly famous for its...
Nov 7, 2019 · Joan Ganz Cooney, the creator of “Sesame Street,” said in a 1998 interview that a documentary she produced on the Harlem pre-school program that would become Head Start led her to “become ...
