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Posted by:
chuckhoffmann
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Date: August 14, 2015 09:04PM
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/15/2015 08:16AM by chuckhoffmann.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/15/2015 08:16AM by chuckhoffmann.
Re: Sesame Street Moves to HBO
Posted by:
Sharon Morono
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Date: August 14, 2015 09:05PM
William Moreno is all over that
Re: Sesame Street Moves to HBO
Posted by:
True the Vote!
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Date: August 14, 2015 09:14PM
Great..A bunch of commie libtard bullshit state media pol pot brainwashing, Sesame Street has been weaponized, now they are really hurting our very young children.
Re: Sesame Street Moves to HBO
Posted by:
The letter "N"
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Date: August 14, 2015 09:46PM
True the Vote! Wrote:
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> Great..A bunch of commie libtard bullshit state
> media pol pot brainwashing, Sesame Street has been
> weaponized, now they are really hurting our very
> young children.
Only if the gibsmedats get HBO for free like their Obamaphones.
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> Great..A bunch of commie libtard bullshit state
> media pol pot brainwashing, Sesame Street has been
> weaponized, now they are really hurting our very
> young children.
Only if the gibsmedats get HBO for free like their Obamaphones.
Re: Sesame Street Moves to HBO
Posted by:
True the Vote!
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Date: August 14, 2015 10:12PM
The last ghetto in North Alex sports a satelite dish in front of every unit.
Re: Sesame Street Moves to HBO
Posted by:
xp4DU
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Date: August 15, 2015 04:50PM
absolutely corrupt niggers and HBO
romney warned you about BIG BIRD - is funded by gov and run by niggas
now they are funneling gov money to HBO
full of crap
don't even look at me i'll fing come after you
Re: Sesame Street Moves to HBO
Posted by:
Huh???
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Date: August 15, 2015 05:36PM
Sesame Street kid here, checking in...
It's hard to know where to choose sides on this. This is a bit like Cash for Clunkers a few weeks ago. Basically, YouTube and streaming have destroyed PBS and Sesame Street. Kids don't want the show over the air anymore. I have a 4 year old and a 2 year old and they watch occasionally over the air, but they're into other non-TV activities.
PBS and Sesame Street have said that things are so dire there and donations are down to an all time low that without this HBO deal, they would have to shut down. That's what they're saying...who knows how true it is?
Meanwhile, HBO gets to spin this as, "Look at us! Here we come to save an American global institution! It's for the kids!" So, they get a 6 month exclusive on all new episodes. PBS will continue to run classic shows and then get the new stuff in 6 months. Also, the HBO episodes will be reduced from 60mins to 30mins.
Honestly, you could pick the best 30 episodes in the show's history and just run those on a rotation and kids would never notice. And if they did notice, they're too old developmentally to be watching the show.
The real rub here is that it has been scientifically proven that for kids whose parents cannot afford to send them to preschool (assuming they live in area where there is no public preschool) Sesame Street while by no means a replacement for brick and mortar preschool does provide "some" child development and is better at preparing preschoolers for kindergarten than no preschool or no Sesame Street at all. Obviously, since HBO is a pay to play network...the poor will not receive the new episodes as they likely can't afford the premium for HBO. But, they will still have 40+ years of Sesame Street episodes still airing daily on PBS.
I tell you this though...playgrounds are going to be a bitch now. Preschoolers are going to learn all about the term "spoilers"...
"Yo! Shameequa! You catch Elmo around the way yesterday? Dude was straight up racing his tricycle, beat Mr. Noodle and then crashed and wrecked his whip..."
"Dayyyyyyyyy-yum, Jamal! I ain't seen that one yet! Why'd you hafta' roll on up in here and tell me all that? Spoiler, YO!"
It's hard to know where to choose sides on this. This is a bit like Cash for Clunkers a few weeks ago. Basically, YouTube and streaming have destroyed PBS and Sesame Street. Kids don't want the show over the air anymore. I have a 4 year old and a 2 year old and they watch occasionally over the air, but they're into other non-TV activities.
PBS and Sesame Street have said that things are so dire there and donations are down to an all time low that without this HBO deal, they would have to shut down. That's what they're saying...who knows how true it is?
Meanwhile, HBO gets to spin this as, "Look at us! Here we come to save an American global institution! It's for the kids!" So, they get a 6 month exclusive on all new episodes. PBS will continue to run classic shows and then get the new stuff in 6 months. Also, the HBO episodes will be reduced from 60mins to 30mins.
Honestly, you could pick the best 30 episodes in the show's history and just run those on a rotation and kids would never notice. And if they did notice, they're too old developmentally to be watching the show.
The real rub here is that it has been scientifically proven that for kids whose parents cannot afford to send them to preschool (assuming they live in area where there is no public preschool) Sesame Street while by no means a replacement for brick and mortar preschool does provide "some" child development and is better at preparing preschoolers for kindergarten than no preschool or no Sesame Street at all. Obviously, since HBO is a pay to play network...the poor will not receive the new episodes as they likely can't afford the premium for HBO. But, they will still have 40+ years of Sesame Street episodes still airing daily on PBS.
I tell you this though...playgrounds are going to be a bitch now. Preschoolers are going to learn all about the term "spoilers"...
"Yo! Shameequa! You catch Elmo around the way yesterday? Dude was straight up racing his tricycle, beat Mr. Noodle and then crashed and wrecked his whip..."
"Dayyyyyyyyy-yum, Jamal! I ain't seen that one yet! Why'd you hafta' roll on up in here and tell me all that? Spoiler, YO!"