Sesame Street Goes Global: Let's All Count the Revenue

International Herald Tribune, December 11, 2005 — Thirty-six years after the original "Sesame Street" had its debut in the United States, Elmo has left his familiar neighborhood for a fresh wave of globalization, bound for countries that are discarding dubbed American versions for homegrown productions inhabited by characters with names like Nac, Khokha and Kami.