High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Shortly after the debut of the educational children`s television program, Sesame Street, in the US in 1969, television producers, teachers, and officials of several countries approached the show`s producers and the executives of Children`s Television Workshop (CTW) about the possibility of airing international versions of Sesame Street. Creator Joan Ganz Cooney hired former CBS executive Mike Dann to supervise the initial productions in Canada, Mexico, Australia, Japan, the Philippines, France, Israel, Germany, and several Caribbean nations.