Dockers, for example, sponsors a show that interviews celebrity mothers. Revlon backs "Beauty Wars," a competition among makeup artists
from around the world. Estee Lauder and Burberry co-sponsor a fashion and entertainment news show.
Glamour's Bill Wackermann says the model is reminiscent of the TV-sponsorship model of the 1950s, "when advertisers were in the business of promoting their own shows and having more creative control of the process."