Sesame Workshop relies on PBS to distribute its programming to U.S. children, and they both share a mission to provide all children, especially ones from lower-economic brackets, access to educational programming.
The Conference recommended that governments provide tax and other economic incentives for the production of public service-type programming by the private media.
"It's bad when it's not budgeted, especially in this economic climate, " says Jim Haman, director of programming at KTVU, a Fox affiliate in the San Francisco Bay area.