The organization shuts down after almost six decades of fueling production of celebrated educational programming, cultural ...

The end of the Corp. for Public Broadcasting means a halt to decades of renowned educational programming, cultural content ...

Big Bird reads to Connor Scott and Tiffany Jiao during a taping of Sesame Street in New York, April 10, 2008. Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who has played Big Bird on "Sesame Street" is retiring ...

Big Bird is familiar to countless people of multiple generations all around the world who grew up watching “Sesame Street.” But who”s the man behind (or inside, actually) the 8-foot-tall ...

So once in a while, he wouldn't see Big Bird on some days, because he wasn't necessarily in every show. So he asked could I telephone him, and talk to the boy, tell him what a good boy he's been.

Big Bird from "Sesame Street" with Catherine Rice, 7, of Smithtown, and Matthew Galante, 4, of West Babylon, at the Helen Mills Theater on Oct. 25, 2007. Credit: Getty Images ...

But some did wonder why it took so long for Big Bird — a performer who regularly works alongside cast and crew, in an industry that is by and large requiring vaccinations — to get vaxxed ...

For instance, Big Bird's head weighs four-and-a-half pounds. And the puppet head is in my hand, and that rises a full foot above the top of my head, which is bent over. SIEGEL: He was 91 when he died.

Spinney, 81, is Big Bird and has been for 46 years. He has logged some 4,000 episodes since the start of "Sesame Street" in 1969, operating what's essentially one of the world's largest hand puppets.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has long helped pay for PBS, NPR and 1,500 local radio and television stations and ...