Like me, Sesame Street is 39 years old — and still going strong! I’ve blogged before about my love for the show, especially the old skool ones where Cookie Monster loved his cookies always and not just as a sometimes food. I’ve got the Old School DVDs, the Songs from the Street CD collection, and I’ve got my favourite clips bookmarked on YouTube.
I would have loved to craft a fun and creative post incorporating the news release I received today, but I’m also dreadfully short of online time right now. It’s too good not to share, though. For the rare exception of Sesame Street, I’ll just cut and paste the entire release for you!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. New York, NY- Fans of television’s longest-running children’s series, which celebrates its 39th birthday today, will have three new digital platforms to access their favorite episodes according to executives from Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization that produces Sesame Street.
iTunes – For the first time, beginning today, fans will be able to download full Sesame Street episodes right to their computers for $1.99 per episode. Launching with 12 episodes from season 35, this new offering adds to already-existing content on iTunes including free outreach videos on the Learning Along with Sesame TV series such as Talk, Listen, Connect – a program helping military families and their young children cope with the challenges experienced during deployment and Happy Healthy Ready for School where Elmo discovers some wonderful things as he learns to get ready for school which will launch on November 17th.
Sesame Street You Tube Channel – Provides access to over 100 of the best Sesame Street clips and currently has 1.3 million video views. Fans can look forward to seeing more segments on a monthly basis.
Hulu – On this new channel, which went live last week, Sesame Street fans can view over 100 Sesame Street segments plus over 30 of the series’ most popular celebrity segments including Julia Roberts and Laurence Fishburne. New clips will be added on a monthly basis.
In addition, the Workshop was awarded a Google Grant, an in-kind donation program awarding free AdWords advertising to select charitable organizations. When Google users search on keywords related to Sesame Workshop an ad will appear next to relevant Google search results under the Sponsored Links sections which will only help the Workshop reach more of their audience and fulfill their mission to reach all children.
My very first record EVER was the Sesame Street two record set with song book pages in the center.
I loved it until it was too scratched and warped to listen to anymore.
I always wanted to be one of the People that You Meet When You’re Walking Down the Street…real life actors on the show.
We watch it religiously every morning.
My 3 year old recently discovered Sesame Street (I PVR it on PBS) and he loves it. Every day he begs us to watch it. On Friday the word of the day was “Fabulous” and he keeps asking to watch “Fabulous Sesame Street”.
I am older than Sesame Street, but I too love the old skool ones. I loved watching it with my kids when they were young. I remember when no one but Big Bird could see Mr. Snuffleupagus, and when they all went to Hawaii and when Mr. Hooper was still alive….well, I’ll stop there.
Happy Birthday Sesame Street!
I love watching Sesame street with my kids… they didn’t really discover it until we took them to Jamaica (all Elmo, all the time at Beaches)… but now they have it on Treehouse and it’s great.
I’ll have to check out the You Tube channel… what a great idea!
I’m looking forward to my daughter being old enough for Sesame Street. I loved the show as a kid.
We had a Sesame Street Fairy Tales tape as kids which was a great favourite on long car trips. (When we did a 3-week camping trip through the States they had to impose a limit and we were only allowed to hear it once a day in order to save my parents sanity!)
Our kids LOVE this site:
http://www.sesamestreet.org/videos/
Full of new & classic sesame street videos, sorted by character or theme. Kind of like a Youtube, but filled exclusively with Sesame Street content.
We love Sesame Street here at our house. The old school discs are known as “favourite movie”, as in “play my favourite movie mommy”. The hulu site won’t stream to Canada, but the YouTube one works.