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Channel One News had many on-air personalities who acted goofy. Tom Hanson is shown...
When Houghton Mifflin’s Channel One News plays videos from students, there is a tremendous savings for the in-classroom TV show. Every minute of student-produced content is one minute less Channel One has to create. Do other schools want to see student-made videos about their upcoming prom? Absolutely not, but Channel...
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Is the stink of Channel One causing Houghton Mifflin people to panic? December 12, 2014: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NASDAQ:HMHC) Insider Mary Johanna Cullinane unloaded 15,000 shares of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt stock on the open market in a transaction dated Tuesday, December 9th. The stock was sold at an average price of $20.18, for...
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From Jim Metrock: (February 26, 2015) This week Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMHC) announced they lost $83.7 million in their fourth quarter. For the year they lost $111.5 million. Wall Street analysts predicted HMHC to post a quarterly loss of 28 cents per share, but the loss was 59 cents. Houghton Mifflin’s purchase of Channel One...
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From Jim Metrock: This movie contest is on Channel One’s website Channelone.com. This is the site that students in high school to elementary school go to find out more information after seeing the Channel One News show in their classrooms. Channel One rarely posts the MPAA ratings...
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Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood – 2012
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From the Houghton Mifflin/ Channel One News script: Last up, at least 25 people were killed in a plane crash yesterday, crashing into a bridge in Taiwan’s capital city, Taipei. A car’s dashboard camera captured the moment the plane came careening sideways out of the sky toward traffic; the plane’s wing clipping...
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From Jim Metrock: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt made a bad decision when they took over Channel One News.HMH evidently thought they could convert Channel One’s old videos and transcripts into a product that schools would not only desire, but would actually buy (with real money). It hasn’t happened. It won’t happen. Houghton Mifflin acquired a...
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From Jim Metrock: Our Wastin’ Time & Tax Dollar$ Award is back and Parkway High School in Bossier City, Louisiana is our first winner for 2015. Congratulation to Dr. Nichole Bourgeois the principal of Parkway High, and her Board of Education members Billie Jo Brotherton, Brad Bockhaus, Frank Kelly, William Lott,...
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A: “No” From Jim Metrock: Channel One News isn’t inspiring many students. This post was put up on December 8. Today is December 11 – three days later. Channel One claims over 100,000 “likes” on Facebook, yet only three people have commented. I am sure more will comment in the coming days, but I doubt Channel One will attract...
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From Jim Metrock: This post is from Channel One’s Facebook page. I viewed their FB page today (November 21,2014) and worked my way back in time. I wanted to see the highest number of responses any one post received. Channel One is still claiming “nearly 5 million” in its audience. So one would think...
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From Jim Metrock: Ms. Monica Burns quit classroom teaching and is now a saleswoman. She is writing articles for Channel One’s website. Ms. Burns is praising Channel One and plugging the controversial Common Core national standards whenever she can. It makes sense that she is gushing about how wonderful Channel One is. After all,...
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From Jim Metrock: On September 29, 2014, and on several other dates, Channel One News ran a commercial for their parent company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. HMH publishes books aimed at the youth market. This ad is for a book called How to Catch a Bogle. The commercial is cheaply made. It must have...
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Should schools be responsible for introducing news to children? http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2014/09/16/39365/should-schools-be-responsible-for-introducing-news/#comments
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Houghton Mifflin’s Channel One News intentionally shows students executioner holding knife before beheading. Why show any pictures of this brutal act of terrorism? Is Houghton Mifflin CEO Linda Zecher pushing Channel One to get edgier with kids? From Jim Metrock: The good news is Channel One News did not use the word “beheading” in...
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From Jim Metrock: Kocinski, Hanson, Evans, and Rulli Sounds like a law firm. Unfortunately, these young people didn’t choose the law for a career. They chose instead to earn a paycheck by commercially exploiting schoolchildren. These are the remaining reporters for Houghton Mifflin’s Channel One News. Shelby Holliday as I reported before left Channel...
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HMH quarterly earnings conference call: Progress made coming out of bankruptcy. Channel One News not mentioned by HMH CEO Linda Zecher. Channel One and other acquisitions will have “no impact” on company in short term. Total cash paid out for three companies, including Channel One: $9.5 million. (Channel One was sold for $240...
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From Jim Metrock: It’s Friday, August 8, 2014 and Channel One News hasn’t shown up for class. It is not surprising. For the last several years, Channel One has started the program later at the beginning of school, and have ended their broadcast season earlier in an attempt to cut expenses. Many schools...
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From Jim Metrock: In the “good old days” Channel One News could make money by selling ads on its in-classroom TV show. Channel One loaned schools the TV sets to watch and could threaten to remove them if students didn’t watch the show and its commercials. That threat was the main reason schools allowed Channel One...
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From Jim Metrock: It’s tough to sell advertisers on a TV show with a rapidly disappearing audience. Channel One is still indicating Ms. Jordan is their VP of Sales, but the truth is she has left the company and is now employed by Townsquare Media. It is almost impossible to believe anything that Channel One says about...
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From Jim Metrock: Shelby Holliday wised up and left Channel One News for a job at Bloomberg TV. Former Channel One executive producer Jim Morris works at Bloomberg and probably had a hand in connecting with Ms. Holliday. Although Ms. Holliday helped commercially exploit millions of schoolchildren since 2010, and she should rightfully feel...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One News has a long history of bad decision making. At one time Channel One believed it was a good idea to give sex advice to kids. A young woman named Peggy Li was hired by Channel One around 1997 and evidently they gave her total freedom to do whatever...
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