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Tom Hanson
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Channel One News had many on-air personalities who acted goofy. Tom Hanson is shown...
June 14, 2015: In 1998 Channel One hired Dr. Paul Folkemer, a middle school principal from New Jersey. Folkemer’s job was to undermine efforts of parents and educators who were seeking the removal of Channel One’s advertising from classrooms. Ask Dr. Folkemer November 28, 1999 Channel One – Peddlers of Despair Channel One,...
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December 5, 1999 Channel One’s Mixed Grade By CONSTANCE L. HAYS It has been 10 years since Channel One burst into classrooms across the country with its made-for-adolescents mix of current-events programming and Madison Avenue commercials. With its school-board-friendly business model, it has built a captive audience of eight million schoolchildren, and...
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Kiosks rivet students’ attention — for a day Melina CasillasApril 21, 2015 There is something strange in the halls of SHS. Is it a mirror? An entrance to Narnia? Nope, they’re kiosks. These kiosks are in the north and south F building hallways upstairs and downstairs, and in the front office entrance closest to...
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“OK, boys, let’s move this hunk of metal out to the parking lot.” The minutes of this school board meeting suggest a good place for Skoollive’s billboards may be outside the school building. Better than that: having no Skoollive advertising presence anywhere on a school’s campus. http://www.tanqueverdeschools.org/Downloads/BdMtgMin11-6-14.pdf
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From Jim Metrock: I am happy for Scott Evans. After four years of being an on-air personality for Houghton Mifflin’s controversial Channel One show, he announced his departure on May 29. He has been one of the more likable people on Channel One. He’s even more likable now, now that he has...
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Hey, kids, “A married woman is a player’s dream.” Channel One News gives kids tips from a raunchy movie. Check out Channel One’s own words: https://obligation.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/c1-movie-review-How-to-be-a-player-1997.pdf Channel One Criticized for R-Rated Movie Reviews August 15, 1997 (Birmingham, AL) The companion website for the controversial in-school TV show Channel One has generated controversy of its own. The...
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Fresh Faces November 26, 1998 January 26, 1998 – Channel One Ceases Their Dangerous “Fresh Faces” Section Within the past two months, Channel One has listened to our our pleas and has ditched their dangerous “Fresh Faces” feature. This was another one of Channel One’s self-promotions that allowed children to put their pictures...
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Channel One’s Guide On How To Cheat On Book Reports February 13, 1998 We were tipped off to this by a teacher in Canada. (Our friends to the north are being plagued with a Channel One clone called YNN.) Channel One published this on their official web site. It attempts to be humorous and at the same...
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How To Be Stupid – The Lessons Of Channel One May 1, 1997 From Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting Extra! May/June 1997 How to be Stupid The Lessons of Channel One By Mark Crispin Miller News, of course, is not the point of Channel One-any more than it’s the point of those commercial TV newscasts...
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Channel One Ad Promotes Most Violent Network Show March 20, 1997 Birmingham, AL – School children in several area middle schools (including all Jefferson and Shelby County system schools) were forced to watch a commercial during school for the most violent prime time series on network television. Obligation, a Birmingham-based child advocacy organization, says this is...
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Speech Given to All Alabama Superintendents of Education February 7, 1997 Prepared remarks by Jim Metrock, President, and Mrs. Pat Ellis, Director of Channel One Project, of Obligation, Inc.,to the Alabama Superintendents of Education meeting, at the Embassy Suites Ballroom, in Montgomery, on February 5, 1997. Mr. Metrock: Thank you, Dr. Richardson. Our message is...
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Cast of characters: Dr. Steve Chestnut, Superintendent Kyle Ryan, Skoollive salesman Mrs. Torri Anderson, Governing Board member (the only Board member asking questions about Skoollive) Mrs. Krista Barrett, Maricopa High School Assistant Principal Mrs. Bernadette Russoniello (a teacher or staff person at Maricopa High School) From the minutes of the MARICOPA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT...
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Sharing “revenue” means schools ALWAYS get money back. Sharing “profit” means schools may never receive a dime. From Jim Metrock: SkoolLive wants to sign up both national and local advertisers for its in-school digital billboards. (The company refers to the billboards as kiosks.) SkoolLive tells local businesses that advertising with SL is a great way...
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From Jim Metrock: I recently posted an article about the Coachella Valley United School District agreeing to place Skoollive electronic billboards in their school hallways. These billboards (Skoollive calls them “kiosks”) will bring static, video, and video-with-sound ads into school hallways. I knew the name “Coachella Valley” sounded familiar and sure enough...
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From Jim Metrock: In this Desert Sun article George Kuhn, Skoollive’s Director of Business Development, says the company’s “goal” was to raise a few thousand dollars per month for the school district. Of course that is just sales talk. Kuhn could have easily said the company’s “goal” was $100,000 per month for the district. If I...
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From Jim Metrock: It’s sad to see young people with a real chance to be legitimate journalists sign on with the kiddie marketing firm Channel One. Check out the background for this dynamic young woman and then try to understand her decision to join Houghton Mifflin’s Channel One News. http://www.channelone.com/reporter/arielle-hixson/ Note to Ms. Hixson:...
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SkoolLive is in the advertising business. Don’t ever forget that. They want to bring advertising into public school buildings. Generating advertising revenue is the main way SkoolLive makes money. There is something called the Standard Industrial Classification Code (SIC). This is a numbering system that identifies a firm’s primary business activity. This number allows governments to monitor and collect statistical data...
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From Jim Metrock: Late in the afternoon of March 17, I received an email from Josh Golin of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood in Boston. He referred me to a Marietta Daily Journal article by Brittini Ray that said the Marietta City school board was going to vote that night (March 17) on...
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From Jim Metrock: SkoolLive is yet another attempt by kiddie marketers to bring advertising into public schools. Today I will begin covering and writing about this company. I had hoped this company would just fade away, but it hasn’t. They evidently think they can make money doing this. They obviously haven’t heard of Channel One,...
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