The mini-storm over Mitt Romney, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and Big Bird pitted two visions of the show’s finances against one another. Mitt Romney claimed he’d cut funding so that ...

When TIME set out to tackle the debate over children’s TV in late 1970, a year after Sesame Street premiered, correspondent Mary Cronin was sent to interview one of the show’s puppeteers—and ended up ...

To millions of kids, Barney was the superstar of public television, but for some University of Nebraska Lincoln students, they'd rather have the big guy seeing stars. UNL's Barney Bashing Bash took ...

Caroll Spinney, better known to multiple generations of curious kindergarteners and their parents as Sesame Street’s Big Bird, died today. He was 85. Spinney had the longest run of the show’s original ...