Williams Sesame Network

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The Williams Sesame Network (also known as WSN) is a United States television network launched in 2008 by Williams Sesame Broadcasting, a joint venture between Sesame Workshop and Williams Street. Originally, the station groups in the consortium helped finance educational comedy shows on WSN, but that deal was restructured at the beginning of the network's second year. At its peak, WSN had 177 stations covering 93% of the country.

Contents 1 Origins 2 Programming 2.1 WSN Primetime 2.2 WSN Afternoon 2.3 WSN Action Pack 3 Current shows

Origins

WSN was launched as a potential fifth network, and offered packaged nights of programming to television stations, beginning with a two-hour block, with second block added one year later. However, close to half of WSN's initial affiliates were independent stations, and WSN programming was usually scheduled around WSN's then five-night prime time schedule. Some PTEN-affiliated stations took issue with the network's barter split, which gave nine minutes of advertising time per hour to the syndicator, leaving only five minutes to the stations. The network also ran into difficulty when the studio was forced to let stations out of their back-end commitments for several series.

WSN announced that they will lease their weekend primetime schedules to another provider, hoping that the competition between Taylor Media's stations and viewership regulations for broadcast stations have made putting on a educational-comedy network virtually possible.

In February 2009, Williams Sesame Broadcasting announced that it is planning on changing its name to WSN, to end confusion over how to capitalized and stylize their programming and as part of an on-going rescheduling effort. Network officials stated that since "Williams Sesame Network" was a joint-venture of Williams Street and Sesame Workshop and was not profitable, the change to "WSN" was available for trademarking. The new name will take effect on June 7, 2009. The network announced that it would be launching a digital subchannel and a cable channel as "Real Kids Network" which will take effect on March 16, 2009.

Programming

The most successful WSN program was the super sentai Goggle 5. Other shows included Duckman, Spin City, Time Squad, and Skunk Fu and two 10-hour documentary movie: History of the World, Part 1.

WSN Primetime

	8:00 p.m.	8:30 p.m.	9:00 p.m.	9:30 p.m.
Monday	Duckman	Spin City	Masters of The Universe
Tuesday	Street Fighter	Street Fighter	Time Squad	Time Squad
Wednesday	America's Funniest People		Skunk Fu	Goggle 5
Thursday	WSN Thursday Night Movie
Friday	WSN Friday Night Special
Saturday	WSN Saturday Night Movie

Williams Sesame Unleashed will begin airing on Wednesday, March 8, 2009 at 9:00PM Eastern/8:00PM Central

WSN Afternoon

	3:00 p.m.	3:30 p.m.	4:00 p.m.	4:30 p.m.
Monday	Adventures in Odyssey	Adventures in Odyssey	Danger Rangers	Danger Rangers
Tuesday	Danger Rangers	Danger Rangers	Danger Rangers	Danger Rangers
Wednesday	WSN Wednesday Afternoon Movie
Thursday	WSN Thursday Afternoon Movie
Friday	WSN Action Pack

WSN Action Pack

	3:00 p.m.	3:30 p.m.	4:00 p.m.	4:30 p.m.
WSN Action Pack	Ultimate Muscle	The Real Ghostbusters	Full Metal Panic	Battle Stars

Current shows

• Captain N: The Game Master
• Deko Boko Friends (a five-minute segment)
• Duckman
• Fun with Chicken Jane (short)
• George and Martha (E/I)
• Generation O
• Goggle 5
• Jacob Two-Two (E/I)
• Johnny Quest
• Magi Nation
• Masters of the Universe
• Power Rangers: Time Force
• Salty's Lighthouse (E/I)
• Silverhawks
• Skunk Fu
• Spin City
• Street Fighter
• The Brak Show
• The Electric Company (E/I)
• The Funky Phantom
• The Hobbit (movie)
• The Legend of Zelda
• The Real Ghostbusters
• Time Squad
• Thundercats
• Zoo Pals