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Channel One News had many on-air personalities who acted goofy. Tom Hanson is shown...
Channel One’s content is becoming darker and darker. Channelone.com is exposing children of all ages to Channel One’s wide range of controversial advertisers. Promethean’s partnership with Channel One is proving to be an unmitigated disaster. Promethean has to take responsibility for exposing 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders to the toxic Channel One News brand....
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Another outrageous movie advertised on Channel One News. Warning: Offensive content below. Parents Guide for The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012) The content of this page was created directly by users and has not been screened or verified by IMDb staff. Sex & Nudity Sex is a big part of the story here....
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Explain this, Channel One.
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Thank you, Channel One News, for introducing my band to middle school students. This is Derrick Riggan the drummer for the Channel One News-advertised band Crashing Broadway. From Jim Metrock: Channel One went into overdrive promoting the band Crashing Broadway. 1. First, school time was used every day for an entire week to play...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One’s Executive Producer published this video in 2010. Even though it was made available to the public, I didn’t discover it until recently. The video is below. At first it appears to be nothing more than a funny, tongue in cheek video made by fellow Channel One News employees to...
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Channel One News is not only advertising a movie (unrated as of now) to preteens and elementary school-age children on their website (and more than likely on their middle school and high school TV broadcasts), but is also running a contest for the film. The picture below is the top of Channelone.com’s home page...
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National TV show criticized for having too many commercials. by Stephanie Weaver – Reading Eagle Originally Published: 9/1/2012 The classroom TV screens were lifeless, blank and mute when Daniel Boone students returned to school this week. For the first time since the early 1990s, the school day didn’t start with at least two...
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Update: Today, September 2, 2012 Channel One has taken down the MTV Music Awards banner ads from their website. We have no idea if students will be seeing the ads on the in-school Channel One News TV show. From Jim Metrock: Channel One News has promoted edgy MTV programming for well over a decade....
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Channel One News has a long history of advertising candy to its captive audience of schoolchildren.
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Why Channel One News is so controversial? Watch these video clips: https://obligation.org/video-from-channel-one-news
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Channel One News prevents parents from seeing the commercials they show to students. Here is exactly what students saw in their classroom. Note the ugly Acuvue commercial which tells young people they are unattractive if they wear glasses. Channel One News commercials are known for undermining the self esteem of young people.
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One had a section of their website where young people could discuss things like the “joy” of self-mutilation. I thought a topic like this was unnecessary. Channel One News did not. They continued allowing this type of content to be posted for months after Obligation called on the company...
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From Jim Metrock: Although the state of California has the largest population, and secondary school population, few schools have or have ever had Channel One News. The reason is California educators, school administrators, and parents fought hard to keep this youth marketing firm out of their classrooms. Commercial TV in Classroom...
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McDonalds was a major advertiser on Channel One News until public pressure on McDonalds forced the fast food company to end their classroom advertising.
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Channel One News no longer has 8.1 million teenager viewers. They now claim “nearly” 5.5 million. When they boast of “unparalleled impact among teen viewers” they are not referring to enhancing young people’s knowledge of current events. They are of course referring to the effectiveness of commercials on the show. This piece of sales...
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From Dr. Juliet Schor’s 2005 book Born to Buy. Juliet B. Schor’s research has focused on the economics of work, spending, environment, and the consumer culture. She is the author of The Overworked American and The Overspent American. Schor is a professor of sociology at Boston College, a former member of the Harvard economics...
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Above: Front page of the official website of Channel One News. Can you tell what these kiddie marketers think is the big news story of the day? It’s the midnight release!! Ads for Hunger Games DVDs and Blu-ray discs have been plastered over the entire website all week. Below: Guess who welcomed students...
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There is very little hard news on Channel One News. The company is a kiddie marketing company and selling stuff to a captive audience of schoolchildren is what Channel One is all about. This Play of the Week does two things. First, it wastes time. This is filler. Showing this is cheaper than actually...
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