Children’s Television Workshop. Yep, I bet it is a big number.
Found it. Just Sesame Street alone rakes in, wait for it..... over Fifty Million Dollars per year in merchandising revenue.
http://www.demint.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=JimsBlog&ContentRecord_id=9f33a591-8891-4ad4-a856-e387dcade83a
Oh, but it gets better. Barney brings in.... you may want to sit down for this one... Five Hundred Million Dollars per year.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/317929/PBS-NEGOTIATING-TO-REAP-FROM-BARNEY-MERCHANDISE.html?pg=all
To continue to beg for tax dollars is criminal.