TV networks are a lot like pesky phone solicitors, the people who call you as you are about to dig into a bowl of spaghetti and try to sell you Venetian blinds you don't want or some kind of helmet your gutters don't need.
Kondorosi, do you want that sentence diagrammed?
It would be fun.
I don't have time right now, but I think everything after "solicitors" is an appositive.