noncommercial television

It’s worth pointing out that the company is pledged to donate $1 to Sesame Workshop for every Super Bowl Sunday order received, though it still is a little discomfiting to see these characters born of noncommercial television shilling for a delivery service.

The list of men now gone from public broadcasting after being accused of harassment also includes Michael Oreskes, a former editor at The Times who was NPR’s top news executive; David Sweeney, NPR’s chief news editor; Daniel Zwerdling, an NPR investigative reporter; and Charlie Rose, who straddled commercial and noncommercial television as PBS’s marquee talk-show host and, on CBS, a host on “CBS This Morning” and a correspondent on “60 Minutes.”

Jackson is also starred in TV's Elizabeth R, a six-part series that has broken all ratings records for noncommercial television and is up for seven Emmy awards next week.

One reason for the improving quality of noncommercial television is the three-year-old Public Broadcasting Service, which sponsors programs that its 233 local stations could not produce on their own for lack of funds.

A $10 million experimental series dedicated to the proposition that noncommercial television can provide a worthwhile alternative to commercial TV, PBL programs two hours of culture and public affairs each Sunday night.