Sesame Street is a long-running American children's television series created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett.

Sesame Street was conceived in 1966 during discussions between television producer Joan Ganz Cooney and Carnegie Foundation vice president Lloyd Morrisett.

Davis reported that Cooney and Morrisett decided that if they did not procure full funding from the beginning, they would drop the idea of producing the show.

Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett were the original founders, with the intention of producing a revolutionary television series based on cutting-edge research into childhood learning.

Founded by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett in 1968 to produce Sesame Street, the company, currently run by President and CEO H. Melvin Ming, has since produced many other shows and a variety of multimedia content.

The show was conceived in 1966 during discussions between television producer Joan Ganz Cooney and Carnegie Corporation vice president Lloyd Morrisett.

In early 1966, Cooney and her husband Tim hosted a dinner party at their apartment in Manhattan ; experimental psychologist Lloyd Morrisett, who has been called Sesame Street's " financial godfather ", and his wife Mary were among the guests.

A few days after the dinner party, Cooney, Freedman and Morrisett met at the Carnegie Corporation's offices to make plans ; they wanted to harness the addictive power of television for their own purposes, but did not yet know how.

In attendance was her husband Tim Cooney, her boss Lewis Freedman, and Lloyd Morrisett, an executive at the Carnegie Corporation, in which the potential of television to teach young children was discussed.

In attendance was her husband Tim Cooney, her boss Lewis Freedman, and Lloyd and Mary Morrisett, whom the Cooneys knew socially.

" According to Davis, the party was the start of a five-decade long professional relationship between Cooney and Morrisett.

A week later, Cooney and Freedman met with Morrisett at the offices of the Carnegie Corporation to discuss doing a feasibility study on creating an educational television program for preschoolers.

For the next two years, Cooney and Morrisett worked on researching and developing the new show, raising $ 8 million for Sesame Street, and establishing the CTW.

At first, Cooney did not fight for the position, but with the support of her husband and Morrisett, and after the investors of the project realized that they could not move forward without her, Cooney pursued it and was named executive director of CTW in February 1968.

Within a few days of being graciously declined by DeSarde, Cooney received a letter from Mike Dann of CBS, who eagerly wanted to join as an executive producer.

While attracting Connell, Cooney received a call from Lou Hausman, who worked for the Commissioner of Education ; he suggested Jon Stone, also from Captain Kangaroo, a producer who had retired to Vermont, though no more than 35 at the time.

Norton continued to take shots from Cooney in his corner for nearly a full minute before Perez, who refereed his last fight, stepped in to stop the bout 54 seconds in as Norton was slumped in his corner.

He was close with his younger brother Mario ' Vinnie ' Costello, a noted professional boxer super featherweight boxer from 1981-1990 with a pro record of 20-2-2 but who never fought for a title, who trained with his brother under the late Victor Vallee, who also trained Gerry Cooney.

The focus on the new show was on children from disadvantaged backgrounds, but Cooney and the show's creators recognized that in order to achieve the kind of success they wanted, it had to be equally accessible to children of all socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds.

Cooney also believed cultural references and guest appearances from celebrities would encourage parents and older siblings to watch the show together.

Holmes and Cooney fought closely from rounds five to eight, trading punches in mid-ring.

TES also staged works by Romanian playwrights such as Victor Eftimiu, Victor Ion Popa, Tudor Arghezi, and Lucia Demetrius, and but also a vast array of works from world theater: Bertholt Brecht's Threepenny Opera, Reginald Rose's Twelve Angry Men, Georg Büchner's Woyzeck, Lion Feuchtwanger's Raquel, The Jewess of Toledo, and Friedrich Dürrenmatt's Frank V. More recent additions to their repertoire include works by Israel Horovitz and Ray Cooney, and an adaptation by Dorel Dorian of Saul Bellow's Herzog.

She is taken to Oak Haven and there she first see Janet " Janet from another Planet " Dillon, then Annie Lavery, then Marian Colby Chandler, and finally she sees Dixie Cooney Martin.

In 1995, she starred on The Face on the Milk Carton, a TV film based on the book by Caroline Cooney about a teenager who finds out she was kidnapped from her real family 13 years prior and had been raised by the parents of her kidnapper.

In the summer of 1967, Cooney took a leave of absence from Channel 13, and funded by the Carnegie Corporation, traveled the U. S. and Canada interviewing experts in child development, education, and television.

Cooney reported that the requests for interviews from the press " were endless ", and attributed it to the emergence of the women's movement in the early 1970s.

In August 1975, nine months after separating from her husband, Cooney was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a radical mastectomy.

In 2005, Council on Environmental Quality chairman and former oil industry lobbyist Philip Cooney, was accused of doctoring and watering down descriptions of climate research from other government agencies.

He became a partner in the Detroit law firm, Plunkett & Cooney, where he practiced from 1983 to 2003.

After Di is released from prison, she is hired by Dr. David Hayward to fool Tad and JR Chandler into thinking she is the late Dixie Cooney Martin.

In early 2005, Rick S. Piltz resigned from his position as a senior associate in the U. S. Climate Change Science Program and claimed that Cooney had been editing government climate reports to emphasize doubts about global warming.

Young J. J. Cooney ( Estevez ) is a video game wizard and arcade game hustler with help from his bespectacled friend Zock ( Billy Jayne ).

Tad Martin and Dixie Cooney Martin are fictional characters and a supercouple from the American daytime drama All My Children.

The bacterial population has been characterized using molecular techniques and was found to contain over 500 species of bacteria that are different from bacterial communities found in the water column, healthy coral tissue, or dead coral skeleton ( Frias-Lopez et al., 2002 ; Cooney et al., 2002 ).

James Cooney ( July 28, 1848 – November 16, 1904 ) was an Irish-American lawyer and Democratic politician from Marshall, Missouri.

Andy Cooney of the Dublin Brigade removed documents from their rooms, before three more members of the Gang were shot in the same house: Captain Keenlyside, Colonel Woodcock, and Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Montgomery.

In 1980, Cooney left to run for US Senate and Hatch became President, CEO and Chairman-a position he held until 1995.

In June 2002 he wrote a memo to Philip Cooney, which Greenpeace later obtained, outlining their strategy for dealing with what Ebell saw as problems caused by the Climate Action Report 2002, which the US government had submitted to the UN.

The memo showed Cooney had repeatedly edited government climate reports in order to play down links between emissions and global warming.

The 1973 general election brought a Fine Gael-Labour National Coalition government to power, and Cooney was appointed to Liam Cosgrave's Cabinet as Minister for Justice.

* Patrick Cooney, Fine Gael politician, government minister, Member of the European Parliament

Prior to government service, Ms. Safavian was in private law practice at Plunkett & Cooney in Detroit, Michigan and Dombroff & Gilmore in Washington, D. C.