{"id":2076,"date":"2012-01-04T14:44:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T19:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-economics-of-sesame-street\/"},"modified":"2012-01-06T07:35:37","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T12:35:37","slug":"the-economics-of-sesame-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-economics-of-sesame-street\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics of Sesame Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/010412_1944_TheEconomic1.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/business\/explainer\/2012\/01\/does_sesame_street_lose_money_.html\"><em>Slate<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>recently took a look at the financials of Sesame Street. Some of the interesting findings in the article include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each Sesame Street episode costs about $630,000 to make<\/li>\n<li>Sesame Workshop, the creators of Sesame Street, declared revenues of $136.366 million, and expenses of $136.496 million in 2010. This means that Elmo and friends suffered a net loss of around $130,000<\/li>\n<li>The company also paid $7 million for what it terms &#8220;Muppet Acquisition&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To find out what proportion of Sesame Street&#8217;s revenue comes from licensing, what one Presidential contender has to say about the show and other fun facts about the beloved children&#8217;s TV series, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/business\/explainer\/2012\/01\/does_sesame_street_lose_money_.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/business\/explainer\/2012\/01\/does_sesame_street_lose_money_.html\"><em>Slate<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slate recently took a look at the financials of Sesame Street. Some of the interesting findings in the article include: Each Sesame Street episode costs about $630,000 to make Sesame Workshop, the creators of Sesame Street, declared revenues of $136.366 million, and expenses of $136.496 million in 2010. This means that Elmo and friends suffered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2076"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2103,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2076\/revisions\/2103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}