I don't know about your part of the country, but here in the S.F. Bay Area, every time it is the month for fundraising on our PBS TV station we get music and talk.
The music is provided by 60+ year old men, and occasionally women, singing and playing the songs they had made popular in the 1960-70s. The audience is old, white and enthusiastic. The pledge phones ring in the dollars. The whole sentimental experience is brilliantly parodied in the great 2003 movie: A Mighty Wind.
It is clear that PBS in my area is old hippies based on the music. What about the talk?
The talk comes from Wayne Dyer and Suze Orman. These two speakers are also sentimental extensions of the hippy era.
Wayne Dyer is an extension, slightly watered down, of Werner Erhard and his est. Werner, like Wayne, tells us that everything is created in our own heads and we simply need to get our heads right. Werner put his sch-peal together by attending many workshops in San Francisco and synthesizing them. Particular credit for Werner's (Werner's real name was Jack Rosenberg) ideas should go to Will Schutz author of Joy. (Will held these same ideas until shortly before his death when he renounced them.)
I knew Werner who came to me for advice and Will was a client of mine over a long period. Wayne is the current incarnation of Werner.
Suze Orman is continuing a hippy tradition of dealing with personal money issues based on The Seven Laws of Money. The Seven Laws sold in the tens of thousands to hippies all over America and continues to sell. Any hippy garage sale will have a copy of The Seven Laws. 
Suze even wrote a book called the Laws of Money (she only has five laws). Suze teaches the lessons of money that are simplified versions of any broker's advice. Mix your stocks and bonds, be cautious, invest in what you know, rely on compounding of interest, get out of debt....blah blah blah. Be optimistic, it will all work out well for you if you have confidence.
The Seven Laws of Money isn't about that (I wrote The Seven Laws); it was more complex, but nevertheless optimistic. Suze got her start in Berkeley at the Buttercup Cafe, one of my long-time clients. For better or worse Suze Orman is the current incarnation of Michael Phillips.