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From Jim Metrock: About six years ago, I met several Edmodo employees at an...
Kent Haehl was Mr. Channel One News. He presided over the company for six...
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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From Jim Metrock: Once upon a time Channel One News signed up schools by offering to install a modest TV network connecting classrooms, if schools showed their daily, 12-minute, news/marketing TV program. The link on today’s Channel One’s home page indicates that Channel One is no longer in the business of loaning TV sets...
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Jim Metrock: Jason Kuang is one of several relatively new faces to pop up on Channel One News. This sometimes means that more veteran on-air personalities have informed the company they are leaving at the end of the school year or sooner. Mr. Kuang was on the show today. He probably enjoyed the fact...
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From Jim Metrock: You can tell how healthy Channel One News is simply by counting the number of full-paying, regular advertisers who have bought spots on the classroom TV show. When you see a public service announcement, that means Channel One had no regular advertiser for that spot. Some organizations may...
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From Jim Metrock: Teachers don’t like Channel One News. Not all teachers of course. There are some that like the hour-a-week break Channel One provides from dealing with students. Some teachers like this electronic babysitter. “Be quiet and watch your TV,” you can hear a lazy teacher tell students. But lazy teachers are a...
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From Jim Metrock: At the end of January, Channel One News dropped their ending voice-over and graphic proclaiming the program was “Powered by Promethean.” The significance of the change is unclear. It was never clear what “powered” meant in the context it was used. A few schools used their Promethean white...
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Channel One News is allowing Revlon to use celebrity endorsements to sell makeup to children… during school time. Forcing children to watch celebrity endorsements for provocatively named beauty products may not be the best use of taxpayer-funded school time.
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Channel One News in public schools still costs taxpayers $1.8 billion annually. An Analysis of Channel One in Secondary Classrooms The purpose of this study was to update a 1998 study by Sawicky and Molnar (1998) that tabulated what the researchers defined as a “hidden cost” of commercialism in public schools. Specifically, the...
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