An employee of Primedia told Obligation that 1440 Broadway is the headquarters for About.com. This is to be the new home for Channel One. About.com has fired so many people that they have some extra space for the Channel One gang.
This further cements the relationship between Channel One and About.com. This will not make parents very comfortable. About.com has a history of dealing in hardcore pornography. A New York Post article last year highlighted Primedia’s entrance into hardcore porn with its purchase of About.com. About was a major advertiser on Channel One. About now has their porn behind an adult verification system and they call it by a different name (Adultseek), but About is still in the porn business.
Channel One should have nothing to do with a company that receives any revenue from pornography. Instead it appears Channel One is becoming a part of About.com.
A separate and very disturbing problem with About.com is their teen sites that offer some of the most vulgar content aimed at teens and pre-teens. We have highlighted much of that filth last year on this site. Channel One is going to continue to promote About.com. They will try to funnel children to About. This will be nothing but trouble for Channel One. About.com adds one more reason for schools to throw Channel One out.
So now Channel One executives – the remaining ones – are setting up shop in abandoned office space at About’s headquarters on Broadway. The next move for Channel One is out into the streets. The way things are going for Channel One, that next move may be sooner than later.
