Deep Dive: Cookiegate

SESAME STREET has a long history of – well, it has a long history. That history has been filled with guest appearances, spoofs and so much more. So it’s fitting that in the week that journalist Robert MacNeil died we remember his appearance on SESAME STREET interviewing Cookie Monster (with his attorney Kermit the Frog) about CookieGate…

Hey, It’s Photo Friday!

It’s not quite a tote bag but I spied this nifty PBS NEWSHOUR satchel a while back in an office used by folks who run our on-air fundraisers. It may have been a premium available with a pledge or it just may have been something a staff member picked up somewhere along the line. Regardless, an impressive item.

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Flashback: 25 August 1982

What was on the schedule 40 years ago? If you’re a longtime viewer (or simply old enough to remember a pre-digital age) you well know that there was only one channel, as opposed to today’s multi-channel, multi-platform, multi-screen landscape. So the then University Of North Carolina Center For Public Television with its eight-station statewide network had the single broadcast signal that was beamed out to transmitters and translators across the Tar Heel State. Were you watching? If so, here’s what you viewed.

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