Channel One News is a youth marketing company whose main purpose is to get advertising to a captive audience of impressionable schoolchildren. The company loans a school TV equipment in exchange for the school’s contractual pledge to show students a daily, 12-minute, hyper-commercial, TV program called Channel One News. Students lose one hour a week of schools time, which equates to one lost week of instructional time (32 hours) per year. No educational organization endorses the use of Channel One News.
Channel One has fallen on very hard times. Once they claimed over 8 million students were under contract. Since 1997 they have continued to lose schools and now they claim “nearly five million” students and the true figure is probably lower.
In May 2014, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt acquired Channel One from ZelnickMedia the makers of the ultra-violent Grand Thief Auto video game series. Houghton Mifflin did not disclose the purchase price.
At the end of 2014 most of Channel One’s full-paying advertisers have abandoned the program.
NOTE FROM APRIL 21, 2011: This outrageous story for middle school students didn’t make any sense at the time. We only found out later when Derrick Shore left Channel One the information that Channel One knew all along: that Derrick Shore was a gay rights activist. I have since talked with former Channel One...
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Classrooms with Channel One News heard portions of these songs Classrooms Without Channel One heard this… Friday, January 23, 2004 ” The Headphonist” — Kinky “Harder To Breathe” — Maroon 5 “Spirit In The Sky” — Norman Greenbaum ” Everything” — Fefe Dobson “The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows” — Brand New “Amazing”...
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Bjorn “Hey, I’m a news anchor!” Leines. The beginning of Monday’s Channel One News: MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 2004 January 27, 2004 JOSHUA: THE BEST ACTION SPORTS ATHLETES IN THE WORLD HAVE DESCENDED ON THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS FOR THE WINTER X GAMES, AND WE’RE HERE TO SEE IT ALL UP CLOSE. HEY EVERYBODY....
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Above is a picture of Channel One “technology.” The gray box with the “1” on it is a Channel One head-end unit. The small 13″ TV on top is a Channel One preview TV. This was recently sent to a northern school that had signed up for Channel One not knowing about the controversy surrounding this TV show....
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Run of the House (WB Network) Parents Television Council says, “Run of the House is not recommended for children of any age.” What Channel One executives might say if they were asked: Yeah, we advertised it to kids. Big deal. If we can advertise a drug movie to children, don’t you think we can...
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Below are five pictures. Each is an actual frame from the in-school TV show called Channel One News. Example #1 Stealing time from taxpayers. After the Channel One News show appears to end, the screen goes black, but then the students see this graphic. The purpose of airing the name of a school is to get teachers to...
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Peter Jennings, ABC’s Master of Liberal Bias has unprecedented access to students forced to watch Channel One News. From Jim Metrock: For years, Channel One News has bragged about their special relationship with ABC News. There are few people who will not acknowledge that ABC News is one of the more liberal-biased networks. Channel One News is helping...
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From Jim Metrock: Those that have followed our efforts to raise awareness about Channel One News know about Pizitz Middle School in Birmingham, Alabama. I think citizens in all states can learn much from how this school has reacted to the call of citizens to remove Channel One. Pizitz’s principal David Miles has always had a close and...
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