Commercial exploitation of Schoolchildren Hall of Shame: ...
A look back to 2023: Another bad idea in...
Where are they now?: Channel One’s Kent Haehl selling...
Pop Quiz: Maggie Rulli has just… January 2, 2026 I just saw Maggie Rulli...
From Jim Metrock: About six years ago, I met several Edmodo employees at an...
Kent Haehl was Mr. Channel One News. He presided over the company for six...
Pop Quiz: Maggie Rulli has just… January 2, 2026 I just saw Maggie Rulli reporting a story on ABC Nightly News. She’s part of the holiday crew filling in for the A team. I am reminded of being so disappointed in this young lady for staying four long years at Channel One News. I...
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From Jim Metrock: About six years ago, I met several Edmodo employees at an ISTE trade show in Philadelphia. They had a booth in the exhibit hall. They were trying their best to sell their company to teachers and school administrators. One would think it was easy to “sell” their company to schools because...
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Kent Haehl was Mr. Channel One News. He presided over the company for six years from 2007 to 2013. He tried to keep Channel One afloat, but it became a smaller and much less-respected company under his leadership. Now, Kent Haehl is making money selling… er… cannabis. He’s one smooth operator. He knows what...
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9/28/2022 Texas and Alabama parents share the same problem. The difference: Texas parents know it, and Alabama parents don’t! What am I talking about? “How-to” sex-ed manuals in public schools and youth organizations. Sex-ed manuals to train children in a variety of sex acts, heterosexual and homosexual. The Comprehensive Sex Education program “Making Proud...
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Channel One News had many on-air personalities who acted goofy. Tom Hanson is shown here mugging for the camera. At the time, he was trying to look “younger” for his captive audience of middle school students. Many Channel One “reporters” thought that acting immature – making silly faces – would fool students into thinking...
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It’s been a tough road for many who hoped to leap from Channel One to legitimate journalism.
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Channel One News has been gone since 2018. However, there is concern that some new youth marketing company will try to bring back the company or parts of it. That is why Obligation will release a video series documenting the abundant problems with Channel One. Before the videos start in August, let’s reintroduce a...
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Channel One News was a classroom marketing company. It grew at a phenomenal rate in the mid-90s until it ran into its toughest opposition: Obligation, Inc. My name is Jim Metrock. I’m president of Obligation. I am one of the reasons Channel One News exited classrooms. I am one of the reasons millions of...
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From Jim Metrock: Few schools are aware of a marketing company called OurCampus. So far in 2020, apparently 8 schools in the Greater Las Vegas area are using its services. This is not a new company. It is a transformation of an older one that apparently ceased operation in 2018 under a cloud of...
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Three charter school systems around Las Vegas, NV have decided to gamble on the controversial OurCampus marketing firm. The people behind the failed Skoollive company are behind this new venture. As of January 26, 2020 Pinecrest Horizon Pinecrest Inspirada Pinecrest St. Rose Pinecrest Sloan Canyon Mater Bonanza Mater Mountain Vista Somerset Sky Pointe Somerset...
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From Jim Metrock: I actually read this long document. Principals won’t read this. They won’t think it’s worth their time. They care about their students but not enough to even skim this massive collection of words. School board members won’t read it either. Teachers? No, they are too busy. Parents? No, they don’t even...
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This is great news for all teachers and parents who feared a return of this Channel One-like, schoolhouse marketing scheme.
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There have been no news stories about NexxGen News signing up schools for its kiddie marketing plan. Neither Edmodo or NexxGen News have posted any episodes of NexxGen News since early 2019. Obligation will report on any episodes of the controversial school TV show if they are published. It is looking like this Channel...
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From Jim Metrock: This is what you get when you go to Skoollive’s web address. Skoollive was a bad idea that never really got off the ground. Misspelling “school” was just the first dumb move by these would-be school marketers. George Bruton, the CEO, will probably resurface again with another bizarre way of getting...
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![Tones [sic] of problems for NexxGen News.](https://obligation.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Screen-Shot-2019-09-11-at-2.23.42-PM-833x1024.png)
From Jim Metrock: Some people are good spellers and some, like me, are not. It appears that NexxGen News employees also have trouble with spelling. Take a look at an NGN Facebook post from this week. “Tones” surely means “tons,” a mistake anybody can make. What is troubling is another spelling mistake that is...
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Edmodo’s partner in school advertising “crime” is NexxGen News. NexxGen News appears to be a cheat clone of the discredited Channel One News program. It’s hard to see schools falling for this mess. It took over a month for NexxGen to generate 3 “likes” on Twitter.
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From Jim Metrock: I copied the content below from Edmodo’s support page so we can document any changes to their advertising policy. Hopefully, the public will become more familiar with Edmodo’s advertising policy this coming school year. I feel few have been paying attention to Edmodo. Earlier this year, Edmodo got on Obligation’s...
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Drinking, Smoking and Sugar: How Unsavory Ads Wound Up on Edmodo By Emily Tate Oct 8, 2018 Beth Freeman logs in to her son’s Edmodo account from time to time to check on his homework assignments. Over the last year, she’s noticed ads peppered throughout the communications app, which is used by...
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The new Channel One-like NexxGen News appears to be inactive over the summer. No post from the company has been published since June 10. We have no idea what the plans are for this classroom, marketing program. Efforts to meet with NexxGen News and Gen Media Partners executives have been unsuccessful. Stay tune to...
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