Pai, who chaired the FCC from 2017 to 2021, during the Donald Trump administration and was often derided online mostly for undoing the net neutrality rules, is now a partner at Searchlight Capital Partners, a global investment firm.
”America’s Public Television Stations are honored and delighted to welcome Ajit Pai to the APTS board,” said APTS president and CEO Patrick Butler.
Fox in the henhouse, again.
Sesame Street isn’t actually owned by PBS, it’s a nonprofit called Sesame Workshop. And it was like 8 years ago that SW was running into funding trouble due to declining DVD sales, and ended up licensing the show to HBO so that they could continue producing episodes at the rate they wanted. PBS now gets episodes several months behind.
TIL, I did not know that. Since I have young kids, I’ve started watching it with them the last couple of years and it’s such an amazing, wholesome TV show. I can’t believe they were running into funding problems, I feel like they should do national fundraising drives and they’d get their funding in a heartbeat (or at least, I sure as hell would donate every year).
The problem is that anything actually for the kids doesn’t usually get funded. The “for the kids” stuff that does get funded is almost always for the benefit of someone else.
It premiered when I was a kid myself. I’m kind of proud of the fact that Morgan Freeman and Rita Moreno taught me how to read.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see Ajit kill sesame street for shits and giggles regardless of the funding.