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Channel One News had many on-air personalities who acted goofy. Tom Hanson is shown...
From Jim Metrock: This news article is from 1989, the year Channel One was still being tested in seven pilot schools. Massachusetts never liked Channel One. Still today, the company has little presence in the state. How odd to now have an old Boston firm like Houghton Mifflin owning Channel One. Houghton...
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From Jim Metrock: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt says they inspire curiosity every day. As a major supplier of educational resources, I am sure they inspire millions of students to be more curious daily. However, this month the company itself did a very curious thing: they acquired the pariah of US education – Channel One. Why would...
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May 28, 2014 From Jim Metrock: I wrote this article 7 years ago. Primedia had just transferred Channel One News to Alloy Media and Marketing. Channel One’s owners, Primedia, admitted Channel One had little value. “De minimis” value if you will. I wonder how much value Channel One has added to itself in the years since being valued at...
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Alabama schools chief Tommy Bice urged to pull plug on Channel One Marie Leech al.comon August 06, 2012 at 6:30 AM Channel One screen capture image from its website. BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — A Boston-based nonprofit group is asking Alabama school Superintendent Tommy Bice to suspend the use of Channel...
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Sloppy, unprofessional storytelling is now part of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Share this video: http://youtu.be/G-ptO6vFAaY
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From Jim Metrock: Absolutely nothing is as it seems with Channel One News. This campaign looks like a noble effort of getting faster Internet connections into schools. And it is, but they are primarily looking after their corporate interests and not the interests of students. Channel One News used to...
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How can so few, lose so much, in so short a period of time? From Jim Metrock: In 1996 when I first found out about Channel One, David Tanzer was their CEO. David Tanzer 5 years David Tanzer was CEO during the Golden Age of Channel One (1993-1997). While the company...
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LIVE BY THE HYPE, DIE BY THE HYPE AN EMPIRE UNDONE The Wild Rise and Hard Fall of Chris Whittle By Vance H. Trimble Birch Lane 353pp $24.95 His empire and reputation in tatters, erstwhile media magnate Christopher Whittle in October, 1994, tapped out a 1,500-word mea culpa for the...
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From Jim Metrock: Martin Christie has been Channel One’s main Alabama lobbyist since 1998. Martin was a friend of mine. In fact he sort of worked for me at one time. He was the lobbyist for the Associated Industries of Alabama and the Business Council of Alabama when I was a board...
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From Jim Metrock: Since 1997, I have been writing articles about Channel One’s commercial exploitation of schoolchildren. They are all here. The main reason I wrote was to help educators, administrators, school board members, other parents, and young people themselves in their efforts to remove Channel One from their classrooms. I hope my...
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Tiszenkel must have seen the train wreck coming. Now safely in Rhode Island working at CVS. From Jim Metrock: Channel One News has to be one of the creepiest workplaces in the country. The whole company is shrouded with secrecy. The company never announces the departure of important employees, even if...
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From Jim Metrock: I recently found the transcript for the 1998 face off between Dr. Alex Molnar of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Channel One’s CEO David Tanzer. Both appeared on the Today Show to discuss Dr. Molnar’s study The Hidden Costs of Channel One. The study said that Channel One was costing...
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From Jim Metrock: It might just now be sinking in. People are going to lose their jobs at Channel One. Whenever Company A acquires Company B, Company B immediately says that there will be no changes at Company B. Everyone should stop worrying. Nothing is going to change. These of course are...
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From Jim Metrock: I was writing about David Drucker, when the news broke about Channel One being acquired by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Mr. Drucker was hired last year to be the Senior Vice President of Sponsorship & Advertising Sales at Channel One. He was hired for the hardest. most challenging job in the...
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Losses too much for ZelnickMedia? How much did Houghton Mifflin Harcourt pay, if anything, for the controversial youth marketing company? Will HMHC keep Channel One’s current employees? Fourth Channel One owner in seven years. (Primedia, Alloy Media and Marketing, ZelnickMedia, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) May 13, 2014, 10:03 a.m. EDT Houghton Mifflin...
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From Jim Metrock: It is so easy to get sick of Channel One News. The company is constantly selling kids something. Often their ads don’t appear like ads. Channel One is a master at mixing news with advertising. On May 6, the classroom TV show Channel One News starts off with...
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From Jim Metrock: Do you ever read the terms of service for websites you visit? If you are like me, you just check the box indicating you agree with the terms without actually viewing, much less, reading the terms of service. These terms of service are written in legal language that is hard...
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Website Terms of Use Updated: June 7th, 2013 Welcome to Channel One! This is a site operated by Channel One, LLC (“Channel One” or “we” or “our”). While we are located on the Internet primarily at the URL www.channelone.com (and at some related and sister sites and URLs), we may change this URL and any...
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From Jim Metrock: This is an email I wrote to Ms. Sadie Camac, a fifth grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary School in August, KS. Ms. Camac, As an elementary school teacher you probably are not too familiar with the controversial nature of Channel One News. Historically the firm has aimed their program...
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From Jim Metrock: This is a commercial for a new cartoon show. It aired on Channel One News. Millions of schoolchildren wasted precious school time to watch this ad. Why? Why would they put their school books down and watch this nonsense? Why would any teacher allow this silliness to be...
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