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Children’s Show Sesame Street to Air on HBO for Next Five Seasons

HeadlineAug 14, 2015

Back in the United States, the nonprofit behind the beloved children’s show “Sesame Street” has announced it will be airing the program on the premium cable pay-TV network HBO for the next five years. HBO will exclusively air all new shows for nine months of each year, after which they can be run on PBS, which has been home to the show for the last 45 years. Critics have raised concerns the deal means low-income families without HBO will no longer have the same access to the educational program that has raised generations in the United States.

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