In the western Pennsylvania town of Valley Grove, citizens have expressed their concern about the controversial Channel One TV show. At a board meeting on Monday, January 17, over 280 names and addresses of citizens were presented to the school board urging the removal of Channel One. The Valley Grove school board is apparently a very pro-Channel One...
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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.
Over 280 Valley Grove, PA Citizens Sign Petition To Oust Channel One
Channel One Sending Out Two Signals
Dr. Paul Folkemer, VP of Education for Channel One, told the Valley Grove, PA school board this week that Channel One is now sending out two signals. One signal is for children under 13 and the other for 13 and older. The only difference he mentioned concerned PG13 movies. It seems that Dr. Folkemer, the person who approves all...
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News About Channel One – June -Dec. 1999
News About Channel One – First Half of 1999 (Second Half of 1999) Channel One – Peddlers of Despair May 21, 1999 – Channel One Restarts Intrusive Web Ads U.S. Senate Hearing on Channel One WIDTH=”450″ BORDER=”1″ CELLSPACING=”2″ CELLPADDING=”0″> ALIGN=”BOTTOM” BORDER=”0″ NATURALSIZEFLAG=”3″> Ralph Nader, Pat Ellis, Jim Metrockand Phyllis Schafly at the May...
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New York Times Article on Channel One
A “must” if you are fighting Channel One in your school district. Get it at your local library. The article is entitled “Channel One’s Mixed Grade in Schools” by Constance Hays – Sunday, December 5, 1999. The article is on the front page of the business section. It runs for over 3,300 words. Channel One is in deep trouble...
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Two Shocking New Ads on Channel One
The Channel One executives approved a new provocative ad for schoolchildren. Many ads on Channel One are sexually provocative. There is nothing new there, but the latest Schick female razor commercial sends a very powerful immoral message to children. The commercial starts off showing a older girl saying, “When you live with guys, you learn all kinds of...
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Ballabon and Folkemer Approve Second James Bond Ad for Kids
BORDER=”0″ ALT=”This gun’s for you.” WIDTH=”200″ HEIGHT=”311″ NATURALSIZEFLAG=”3″>Shameless Channel One keeps pounding away at our children. We have now seen the second ad (November 19, 1999) for the violent and sexually-charged James Bond movie. This time Channel One ran a commercial that tells the children that critics love this violent movie and that they (the children) need...
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First Channel One Ad for a Recording Artist
border=”0″ width=”131″ height=”433″ naturalsizeflag=”3″> SIZE=”-1″ FACE=”Arial”>< Jessica Simpson’s Commercial for her debut CD was mandatory viewing by children in schools with Channel One. Times must be hard at Channel One’s Madison Avenue headquarters. For the first time, to our knowledge, Channel One has run a formal commercial for a recording artist. The singer is Jessica Simpson....
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Who Is Jeff Ballabon?
Mr. Ballabon recently flew from New York to Alabama to meet with conservative legislators and other influential people in an attempt to win friends for Channel One. Mr. Ballabon failed to tell the Alabama citizens he meet with that the product he was pushing was outlawed in public schools in his home state of New York. He must...
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Ask Dr. Folkemer
Channel One – Peddlers of Despair Ask Dr. Folkemer Channel One, the marketing company with headquarters on Madison Avenue (by the way, their product called Channel One News is outlawed in all public schools in their own home state of New York) and studio in Hollywood USA has come up with another effort to look...
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Old Story, But Chilling – Channel One Ran Story on Jeffrey Dahmer in Classrooms
“It made me think about all of the terrible things my kids were exposed to in public school over the years – and none of us parents could ‘censor’ any of it. For instance, I was livid when Channel 1 broadcast news of Jeffrey Dahmer’s hideous murders directly into my kids’ classroom several years ago. I had censored...
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