In the News: Big Bird's Big Oops!

[Fozzie Bear]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/0703200...birds_big_oops_regionalnews_david_seifman.htm

July 3, 2007 -- Astoria Studios, the longtime home of "Sesame Street," could use a lesson in good government because it stopped paying its water bills when the city stopped sending them back in 1995, an audit has found.
The Queens TV and film complex finally forked over $135,237 last year after auditors for Comptroller William Thompson spotted the decade-long oversight.


Asked why the studio hadn't paid the bills before it was caught, spokeswoman Deborah Green said, "Obviously, there was some human error."

Yeah, and in Memphis, we'd have to fork over the moolah or lose water usage. That's 12 years worth of water not being paid for.

Honestly, I hope the government lets it slip on by since they didn't send bills for it so the network can use that money and continue making great shows!

 

[theprawncracker]

DANG! That's a boat-load of cash! And you could probably float a boat on all the water they didn't pay for! *rimshot* ...*walks out*

 

[MrsPepper]

Ouch! Not cool. But it is Sesame Workshop's fault, or just the landlord of the building they use?

 

[The Count]

See... This is the type of news story that makes me mad. Because the media doesn't do their homework, they start slapping labels on something Sesame Street related, and next thing you know we have a panic on our hands and have to do damage control.

This was more likely caused by the management of the Astoria TV studios where Sesame Street was filmed, not Sesame Street itself. And Astoria Studios may be where Sesame Street "was" filmed (emphasis on "was"), but Sesame Street is now filmed in Coffman Studios. So it's rully a problem of faulty guilt by association.

Sheesh... Just pay da water bills and move on, nothing to see.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

It was the studio's fault; not the show's. It will come down to the studio paying it, not Sesame Street.

 

[gbrobeck]

See... This is the type of news story that makes me mad. Because the media doesn't do their homework, they start slapping labels on something Sesame Street related, and next thing you know we have a panic on our hands and have to do damage control.

This was more likely caused by the management of the Astoria TV studios where Sesame Street was filmed, not Sesame Street itself. And Astoria Studios may be where Sesame Street "was" filmed (emphasis on "was"), but Sesame Street is now filmed in Coffman Studios. So it's rully a problem of faulty guilt by association.

Sheesh... Just pay da water bills and move on, nothing to see.

Actually Sesame Street still tapes in Kaufman-Astoria Studios and has since 1993.


Greg

 

[Drtooth]

See... This is the type of news story that makes me mad. Because the media doesn't do their homework, they start slapping labels on something Sesame Street related, and next thing you know we have a panic on our hands and have to do damage control.

This was more likely caused by the management of the Astoria TV studios where Sesame Street was filmed, not Sesame Street itself. And Astoria Studios may be where Sesame Street "was" filmed (emphasis on "was"), but Sesame Street is now filmed in Coffman Studios. So it's rully a problem of faulty guilt by association.

Sheesh... Just pay da water bills and move on, nothing to see.

You do realise they just associated this story to Sesame Street because it was the only way people would pay attention to it, and not just look it over.

if they said "Historic theater misses Water bill" No one would care.