Normally I am a fan of PBS and our local station, KAET is pretty fair, but my one star rating has to do with pledge week programming. For some reason, and it can't be viewer ratings, during pledge week(s) the programming goes into a mindless series of motivational speakers, old music specials and third tier documentaries, all of which could not get time on those free channels that the cable companies force on you with their "value packages". Andrea Bocelli? Celtic Women? Suzy Orman? This stuff is awful. If you are going to watch and if you want to contribute, do it during non-pledge periods otherwise it just encourages this awful stuff. I can't blame our local station because I can't believe they would employ programming people that could possibly be that clueless. I have just learned to tune it out during pledge periods and go back when decent programming returns.