Most schools have a code of conduct for students. In student handbooks, school administrators spell out conduct that will not be tolerated. Various degrees of punishment are laid out so students can clearly understand the consequence of certain behavior. The common denominator for most school rules is whether an action disrupts the educational environment....
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Does your school still have Channel One News?
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Houghton Mifflin/Channel One News
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.
Channel One News: A Disruption of the Educational Environment
Alanis Morisette Becomes News Anchor To Push Latest CD
Channel One claims to have a captive audience of 8 million students. Advertisers like the fact that young people are compelled to watch their ads so the advertisers pay over $200,000 for ONE 30-second ad. But sometimes a company wants to do more than just run a regular commercial on Channel One News. If you have more money,...
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Parents Object To Channel One News In Indiana
Parents Object To Commercials In School JANUARY 8, 2003 BY MATTHEW WEIGELT, Times-Union Staff Writer NORTH MANCHESTER –The commercials shown on Channel One, a current-events news program geared to a middle school-age audience, disturbed several parents who took issue Tuesday with its addition into the junior high school. Manchester Community Schools School Board tabled...
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Nebraska Catholic HS Removes Channel One News
This is an article by a student documenting the removal of Channel One News from Marian H.S. in Omaha, Nebraska. This is a Catholic school. There is no date on the article but appears to be around March, 2002. The situation at this high school is typical of many other schools under contract to...
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Indiana School Asks Channel One News To Leave
September 2001 Issue, The Reveille, Brownsburg High School, Brownsburg, Indiana Passing Extended; Loss of Channel 1 At the start of the school year many students and teachers’ wishes were granted. For many years students had been forced to watch Channel One, a news show based on world news, high schools, and students. This year...
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Why Channel One “News” Will Collapse
As I am watching my Auburn Tigers play Penn State, I am also typing this article on my Mac PowerBook laptop. When I am finished writing, I will press a key and it will be sent to Obligation’s web site for viewing across the country. I installed an inexpensive, wireless connection to the Internet...
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“Children’s Only Source For News” Goes Dark
From Jim Metrock: I have heard it too often from the Channel One hacks – "You can’t get rid of Channel One at your school because we are the only source of news for many of the students." I have learned to control my gag reflex when I hear that, but I still shake...
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Channel One Suffers Major Blow In Tennessee
Although it was a Texas advertising executive, Ed Winter, who created Channel One back in 1988, he was working for Chris Whittle at the time in Knoxville, Tennessee. In the early 90’s, Whittle’s Channel One saturated Tennessee schools. Few states have a higher percentage of schoolchildren under contract to Channel One. That is why...
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Texas State School Board Does Not Pass Channel One Resolution
From Jim Metrock: Channel One’s president Jim Ritts came to the Texas school board meeting himself. It was that important. A resolution urging Texas school districts to remove Channel One had been introduced in September. Channel One hastily hired the law firm of Akin Gump to represent them. But Ritts knew the stakes were too high to leave...
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Houston Chronicle Wants Channel One Out of Texas Schools
Editorial – November 13, 2002 UNPLUG IT End Channel One hawking to kids in Texas classrooms The State Board of Education is scheduled to vote this week on a resolution encouraging all local Texas local school districts to remove Channel One from the public schools. The resolution should be approved, and then heeded by school districts. Channel...
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