Look at the bright side...it's better than pledge week on pubic TV.

This being a pledge week, prime time on public television is crammed with programming not likely to be provided on the system's normal schedule.

The concert filled an 8-9pm (eastern) time slot during the studio's pledge week.

This being a pledge week, public television is turning more than ever to adorable animals and soothing nostalgia.

This being a pledge week, Channel 13 is tailoring its schedule to researcher specifications.

They cost City Hall less than $2 million a year, because they raise more than 90 percent of their budgets through over-the-air "pledge week" fund-raising and private grants.

America is big on pledges: it's pledge week on public radio and we've just renewed our pledge to get our son to school on time.

Loyal viewers and the merely curious are painfully aware that public television recently completed another period of what are called "pledge weeks."

But far more exasperating are the programming tactics employed on the occasion of a pledge week.

I hate pledge week on National Public Radio.