The Electric Company
1971
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Joan Ganz Cooney. Co-Founder and Honorary Lifetime Trustee, Sesame Workshop. 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.
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.
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 ...
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...
Joan Ganz Cooney, as creator of Sesame Street, has benefited millions of young children. After graduating from the University of Arizona, Cooney worked as a newspaper reporter. In 1954, she moved to New York City to write for television. In 1964, she received an award for her analysis of the antipoverty program in New York.
Joan Ganz Cooney. For Joan Ganz Cooney, the business of children's television is a serious one. While the creator of the Children's Television Workshop and Sesame Street is quick to call the show "a collaborative effort," she is the driving force behind this innovative and hugely successful children's program.
