Gleeful Channel One Execs Mix Ads And News

September 8, 2009

Channel One News continues to use its in-school TV show and its web site to relentlessly and unethically promote its advertisers. For years the company has mixed news and advertising in a way that many students would find confusing. The article below looks like a news story. It is intended to mislead. It’s a "news story" about an advertiser’s newest TV show.

Fox’s TV show Glee is getting heavily advertised on Channel One News and on Channelone.com. This "teen news" company allowed cast members of Glee to do a Pop Quiz on the TV show.

No wonder the size of Channel One’s captive audience continues to shrink. Schools have much better things to do than showing students commercials for new sitcoms.