This article reports how some colleges in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) men's basketball tournament have produced unlikely commercials. One of them is Drake University, which has a TV ad that consists entirely of a series of numbers, words, phrases, and stylized drawings in two shades of blue instead of the usual pictures of…

In California non-commercial "commercials" short spots of pantomime and bilingual messages fitted into and around television's entertainment programs, are used as a means of providing nutrition education to urban and rural low-income people. As revealed by audience requests for nutritional information offered, the commercials are popular…

If the notion of public and private spheres seems somehow quaint or old-fashioned, the distinction between public and private corporations will be that much more obscure. Yet Channel One broadcasts in a public school classroom are indisputably the result of a contract between a private corporation (Alloy Media + Marketing) and a public corporation…