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When Sesame Street premiered in 1969, it aired on only 67. 6 % of American televisions, but it earned a 3. 3 Nielsen rating, which totaled 1. 9 million households.

By the show's tenth anniversary in 1979, 9 million American children under the age of six were watching Sesame Street daily.

According to a 1993 survey conducted by the U. S. Department of Education, out of the show's 6. 6 million viewers, 2. 4 million kindergartners regularly watched it.

77 % of preschoolers watched it once a week, and 86 % of kindergartners and first-and second-grade students had watched it once a week before starting school.

The show reached most young children in almost all demographic groups.