Editing Ford Foundation (section)

=== Media and public broadcasting ===
In 1951, the foundation made its first grant to support the development of the [[PBS|Public Broadcasting Service]] (PBS), then known as [[National Educational Television]] (NET), which went on the air in 1952.<ref name="behrens">{{cite news| url=http://www.current.org/funding/funding0509ford.shtml| title=Ford outlays seek to broaden 'public media'| last=Behrens| first=Steve| date=16 May 2005| work=[[Current (newspaper)|Current]]| access-date=2014-05-14| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515155106/http://www.current.org/funding/funding0509ford.shtml| archive-date=15 May 2012}}</ref> These grants continued, and in 1969 the foundation gave $1 million to the [[Sesame Workshop|Children's Television Workshop]] to help create and launch ''[[Sesame Street]]''.<ref name="imbd">{{cite web| url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063951/companycredits| title=Sesame Street: Company Credits| website=[[Internet Movie Database]]| access-date=2014-05-14}}</ref>