From Jim Metrock:
Channel One’s advertising has always been the main reason schools have refused to allow Channel One News into their classrooms.
Channel One is now offering an advertising-free version via a subscription.
I am assuming they are charging $3.50 per CLASSROOM and not per student. Channel One doesn’t make that clear in their advertising. The “Best Value” plan is a 12-month contract for $24.00. Channel One says this plan costs $2.00 a month, but they didn’t do the math correctly. Channel One News is not produced during 2 1/2 months each summer, so the cost should be $2.50. Channel One could argue that although there is no program produced in summer, they do continue to cut and paste AP wire stories on their website. I don’t think schools would pay for access to Channelone.com’s web content if there is no daily video news show.
Note: What’s with the line, “Be the first to watch our daily news for kids shown in classrooms across the country”? That doesn’t make sense. Channel One is getting sloppier than normal with its content. Another problem is when someone on a lark clicks on either “Select” button depicted above they come to a sign up page that has a link to the Channel One cancellation policy. Clicking on that link sure enough comes to a page that says “Cancellation Policy” but it says nothing about cancellation. It is merely a word-for-word copy of Channel One’s privacy policy. Sloppy, sloppy. But it really doesn’t matter, because few schools are ever going to pay for anything from the controversial Channel One News company.
Channel One slapped the title “Cancellation Policy” on their privacy policy page and hoped nobody would notice. They probably aren’t anticipating many schools to sign up and therefore saw little need to pay an attorney to write up cancellation language.
