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.
Why is this man smiling? You would too, if you were "Casino Jack" Abramoff. He looks after the interests of casinos and Channel One. Both pay him an obscene amount of money. December 17, 2001 – "Casino Jack" Abramoff Channel One’s survival depends on federal government money – your tax money. Without the public...
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Channel One is pouring rock and rap music into the classroom in an effort to grab the waning attention of students so they will watch the commercials. Channel One has always used music from artists known for their vulgar and violent lyrics, but the company appeared to be backing away from this practice. That...
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A schoolchild that has Channel One in his or her school is told to go to ChannelOne.com at least three times during the TV show. When the child arrives at Channel One’s much-promoted site, the first thing they see is a pop-up ad for the Cybiko company. The Cybiko ad cannot be avoided. Channel...
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http://www.channeloneteacher.com/wkupdate/index.html The link above will take you to Channel One’s "Weekly Update" for teachers. Like most things at C1, it is an exercise in futility. Few teachers care about Channel One and fewer will take the time to go to C1’s web site. (Channel One abandoned an email program that would have given teachers...
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There are eight anchors at Channel One. These are people that schoolchildren have to watch each day because of the Channel One contract. These on-air personalities are the "face" of Channel One. They are the facade. These are the "pretend reporters". No matter how bad they are their audience is locked-in. Over the years, many...
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There are eight anchors at Channel One. These are people that schoolchildren have to watch each day because of the Channel One contract. These on-air personalities are the "face" of Channel One. They are the facade. These are the "pretend reporters". No matter how bad they are their audience is locked-in. Over the years, many...
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For over two years, U. S. Senator Tim Hutchinson (R-AK) has been doing the bidding of Primedia’s Channel One. Hutchinson’s staff has allowed the "pro-family" Senator to become a tool for this big money marketing company. Jim Metrock said, "When Senator Hutchinson pushes Channel One’s agenda in Congress, he is pushing the agenda of Hollywood...
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For over two years, U. S. Senator Tim Hutchinson (R-AK) has been doing the bidding of Primedia’s Channel One. Hutchinson’s staff has allowed the "pro-family" Senator to become a tool for this big money marketing company. Jim Metrock said, "When Senator Hutchinson pushes Channel One’s agenda in Congress, he is pushing the agenda of Hollywood...
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Channel One bills itself as the ONLY source of news for many children. Funny, Channel One doesn’t even believe their own words. This Thanksgiving Day weekend from Wednesday, November 21 to this morning, November 26, Channel One’s web site took a holiday. Funny, the news didn’t take a holiday, but then Channel One has little...
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