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Sesame Street and most specials, spinoffs, and related productions are produced and owned by Sesame Workshop. The following is a list of Henson projects produced up until 2004, and how they are divided by their current rights holders.
With the exception of occasional appearances in the Muppets franchise, the characters were used exclusively for Sesame Street, but Henson legally owned these characters prior to their acquisition by Sesame Workshop.
In 2000, Jim Henson's children sold the entire company (including the Sesame Street characters) to German media company EM.TV & Merchandising AG for $680 million. In June of that year, EM.TV sold its stakes in the Odyssey and Kermit networks to Crown Media in exchange for an 8.2% stake in Crown Media.
The show was initially funded by government and private foundations, but has become somewhat self-supporting due to revenues from licensing arrangements, international sales and other media. By 2006, independently produced versions ("co-productions") of Sesame Street were broadcast in 20 countries.
In 1969, Henson joined the children's educational television program Sesame Street (1969–present) where he helped to develop Muppet characters for the series. He and his creative team also appeared on the first season of the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (1975–present).
With the exception of occasional appearances in the Muppets franchise, the characters were used exclusively for Sesame Street, but Henson legally owned these characters prior to their acquisition by Sesame Workshop.
In 1966, a public television producer named Joan Ganz Cooney, began work on a ground-breaking educational children’s television show called Sesame Street that would premiere in 1969. Based on Jim’s creative reputation, Cooney asked him to create a family of characters to populate Sesame Street.
