Channel One has had a sad and disturbing history of violating the privacy of children. To the credit of those in charge of Channel One currently, great strides have been made in improving this situation. Just a few years ago, Channel One was urging children to send in their pictures so they could be...
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Does your school still have Channel One News?
Learn how to unplug
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.
Privacy And Channel One
About.com Back “Big Time” on Channel One
If anything can be more controversial than Channel One News, it is the web site About.com. It looked like our letter to Channel One’s Paul Folkemer may have been effective when banner ads for About.com appeared to be removed from ChannelOne.com, but the ads are back. Children who click on the ever present About.com...
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Channel One’s New “Playlist” Effort Puts Rock and Rap In the Classroom
Yes, there is a playlist of current rock and rap music for students at schools with Channel One. Channel One attitude appears to be – Why shouldn’t students be able to listen to their favorite songs during class time? If your child is still under contract to Channel One, here is what they had...
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Jim Metrock to Channel One’s Paul Folkemer – Stop Advertising About.com to Kids, NOW!
Note: January 18, 2001 – At approximately 11:45 CDT, ChannelOne.com removed banner ads for About.com’s Teen Site from all its pages. Obligation has received no reply from Dr. Folkemer so there is no way to know if this is temporary or permanent. This is a positive move by ChannelOne.com. We do not know if...
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Channel One Becomes “Unfriendly Territory” for National Advertisers
Over the last year, there has been a noticeable change in the advertisers on Channel One News. The news is encouraging to the parents, students and teachers who are trying to rid their schools of this show. Gone is Mars, Inc. the candy bar company. This was a huge advertiser on Channel One for...
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Drugs, Sex, and Channel One News
January 14, 2001 – Drugs, Sex, and Channel One News Drugs, Sex and Channel One News Check out the latest outrage from Channel One. A “funny” movie about two “pot-heads” who get so “stoned” that they don’t know what girl they had sex with, what strip bar they went to, what they did with a transvestite the...
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Channel One Dumps Foul-Mouth Sisqo Into Middle School Classrooms
What in the world is the foul-mouth rapper Sisqo doing in your son or daughter’s middle school homeroom? Your child is being encouraged to buy his filthy CDs. He is shown on a Pepsi commercial that Channel One is forcing children to watch in school. No mention is made that his CD contain explicit...
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“Entertainmenteen” Magazine Goes Bust
PRIMEDIA, Channel One’s parent company, had a problem. One of their top publications, Seventeen magazine, was in a deadly battle with new competitors like Teen People and Cosmo Girl. PRIMEDIA came up with a new magazine called Entertainmenteen that would be aimed at preteens. This way, as their press release said at the time,...
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Drinking And Drug Advice Is Outrageous
America’s schoolchildren are being inundated with ads for About.com. About.com is a company that owns several pornographic sites and will be merging with Channel One’s parent company, PRIMEDIA, Inc. at the end of February or the beginning of March. The porn connection will be dealt with at a later date on this web site....
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Channel One Starts Major Effort to Get Kids to About.com – Why you should be very concerned.
This is the banner ad that Channel One runs on its Channelone.com web site. Channel One once dumped About.com as an advertiser because of the pornographic content on their site. In 2001, Channel One has an apparent different attitude. A young person might be mislead by About’s ad which gives the impression it is...
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