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Tom Hanson
9/28/2022 Texas and Alabama parents share the same problem. The difference: Texas parents...
Channel One News had many on-air personalities who acted goofy. Tom Hanson is shown...
From Jim Metrock: Summer is the time for schools to dump Channel One. During the summer months, when fewer students are in the building, it is so much easier to remove Channel One’s antiquated “technology” (read: old, analog TV sets) from classrooms . After last summer Channel One quietly posted on their website that their...
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From August 2011… From Jim Metrock: Longtime Channel One on-air personality Jessica Kumari has called it quits. Obligation was surprised in August 2011 when Ms. Kumari came back for yet another year. When she came back for a sixth year in 2012, I thought she must have given up on wanting a...
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Enough violence, Channel One. Stop being reckless with your young, captive audience.
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Guns are drawn during Channel One’s weekly Week in Rap segment. Teachers have no idea what images Channel One will thrust on schoolchildren.
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From Jim Metrock: There was no press release announcing her hiring. All previous CEOs benefited from a substantial public relations effort when hired. Ms. Kettler got nothing. Strange. It might have been Ms. Kettler who insisted on no publicity. I could understand that. Odd that Obligation, Inc. was the entity that told the...
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Clearasil remains one of the few advertisers left on the controversial, in-classroom Channel One TV show.
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From Jim Metrock: I have apologized to Channel One three times since 1996 when I began researching and reporting on the youth marketing company. All of my apologies were about rather inconsequential things, but when I am wrong I want to correct the record as quickly as possible. I recently blamed Channel...
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Clicking on the “Mortal Instruments Sweeps!” ad takes teens, preteens, and elementary school-age children to this site: http://video.channelone.com/the-mortal-instruments-sweepstakes/ The contest is sponsored by Alloy Media and Marketing, Channel One’s parent company.
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From Jim Metrock: April 26, 2013 – Ah, the embarrassment was too much for Channel One and its on-air personalities. (I admit it was disquieting even to me to see Channel One reporters begging advertisers to help their company.) YouTube has taken down our “Sizzle/Frizzle” video because Channel One claims a copyright infringement. There...
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Spring house cleaning continues at marketing company Channel One. A look back at the man who loved to connect advertisers with children. In the early 2000’s when he was Channel One’s VP of Sales Kent Haehl knew that there was an obesity crisis developing among young people, but he signed up junk food...
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Jim Metrock: In 16 years of researching and reporting on Channel One News, I have never seen such a video. Channel One’s “reporters” are virtually begging any potential advertiser to help pay their salaries. These young people consider themselves young journalists, but as I always try to remind people, they are employees of...
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6th grade students, just one year out of elementary school, see the same violent images on Channel One News as high school seniors see. Channel One’s “one-size-fits-all” approach to news stories shows their insensitivity to their preteen audience. Showing the same news stories to an audience ranging from 10 years-old students to 18 year-old...
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Channel One news anchor Julian Dujaric.
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Jessica Kumari in her 6th! year at Channel One News.
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Food food advertising is back at Channel One News.
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One News is now advertising the notorious SunnyD beverage to its captive audience of schoolchildren. Yes, Channel One News is back advertising junk food to American students. If you think “junk” is too harsh for such a “sunny,” “delightful” drink, then you probably haven’t checked out its ingredients. SunnyD...
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From Jim Metrock: The blank purple space at the top of all Channelone.com’s pages used to be filled with banner ads. For several days the banner ads are gone. Does this mean Channel One News has run out of companies wanting to advertised on their controversial website? That is possible since there...
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Screen shot from Channel One News on March 28, 2013 Middle schools are shown the same content as high schools. Teachers are given no warning of controversial stories on Channel One News so parents cannot talk with their children about what they are going to see on Channel One.
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Kathy Goodman the longest serving employee at Channel One News has been quietly removed from the company. She has been gone for exactly one year. The public was unaware of her departure because like Channel One’s ouster of Dr. Paul Folkemer , there was no press release, no public statement of thanks for her...
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From Jim Metrock: May no educator ever, EVER, do what this man did with his Doctor of Education (Ed.D) degree. Educator-turned-kiddie-marketer Dr. Paul Folkemer is out at Channel One News. He first joined Channel One in 1998. He left after four years and then came back to the youth marketing firm in 2008. Now...
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Longtime Channel One employee Mohamed Sayed is no longer employed by the company. Mr. Sayed was promoted less than three years ago to the position of Chief Financial Officer. His replacement, if there is one, is unknown.
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