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- Ganz, Joan, 1929-
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
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Birth Date
- 1929-11-30
Has Affiliation
- Organization: University of Arizona
- Organization: WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
- Organization: Children's Television Workshop
Birth Place
- Phoenix (Ariz.)
Associated Language
- English
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Sources
- found: Children are people, too [SR] 1979 (a.e.)label (Joan Ganz Cooney) narration (pres. of the Children's Television Workshop)
- found: I am Big Bird: the Caroll Spinney story, c2014:container (featuring Joan Ganz Cooney)
- found: Wikipedia, August 14, 2015:(Joan Ganz Cooney is an American television producer, co-founder of the Children's Television Workshop; born November 30, 1929 as Joan Ganz, in Phoenix, Arizona; earned a B.A. in education from the University of Arizona in 1951; worked for the State Department in Washington, D.C., as a journalist in Phoenix, Arizona, and as a publicist for television and production companies in New York, New York; in 1961, she became interested in working for educational television and became a documentary producer for New York's first educational TV station WNET; 1966-1969, developed the CTW and Sesame Street; as executive director of CTW from 1969-1990, she was one of the first female executives in American television)
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Change Notes
- 1980-07-31: new
- 2015-09-29: revised
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