Sesame Street is a $400+ million business let them pay their own way. There's no reason a multi-million dollar corporation, and yes PBS and Sesame Street are corporations, should be getting my tax dollars to run their business.
I own my own business and the government doesn't pay me anything but has no problem taking more from me every year. As far as poorer vs richer states getting to keep PBS in this digital age of the government subsidizing computers, cellphones, education, transportation, groceries, I'm pretty sure if someone absolutely needs a fix of Big Bird the can always log on to youtube.