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One hyperlink tells a lot about Channel One’s decline.
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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Complete, unedited Channel One News for March 4, 2013
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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Complete, unedited Channel One News for March 1, 2013
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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Your TV set is turning on by itself.
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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Promethean no longer “powering” Channel One News.
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 pitching “Nearly naked” makeup to kids.
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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Revisiting the Economic Impact of Channel One
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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Gimme five! George Jenkins High allots five minutes to Channel One News.
From Jim Metrock: George Jenkins High School in Lakeland, FL used to be one of Channel One’s favorite schools. Like nearby Bartow High, Jenkins was a “Channel One Flagship School.” Students would often be interviewed by Channel One and appear on the program. But things have changed. Today this “A-rated” Florida school has...
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1996: The high point of Channel One’s kiddie marketing dreams.
From Jim Metrock: This is one of my favorite articles. I clipped it out of Advertising Age magazine way back in 1996. Heidi Diamond was just hired by Channel One News to help take the kiddie marketing company to new heights. In 1996, Channel One was making so much money it was...
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Plagiarism at Channel One News
A link entitled “Ten Things to Know for Monday” on the front page of Channelone.com took readers to the above article. We shrunk it down to show the whole article as one image. There is no author or source attribution at the beginning or the end. Anyone reading this would assume Channel One staffers...
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