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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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Channel One News prevents parents from seeing the commercials they send to American classrooms. They remove commercials from their playback for parents on Channelone.com. Obligation provides parents and the public with the full Channel One shows that students were forced to watch while they sit at their desks.
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At the time Seventeen magazine was a sister company to Channel One News. Even though Seventeen contained content that was age-inappropriate for preteens, Channel One heavily advertised it in American middle schools.
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It’s almost like Channel One News executives Kent Haehl and Paul Folkemer want educators to hate their company. With Channel One coming under renewed criticism for their advertising assault on schoolchildren, one would think the company would trim back their advertising. Instead the first day of Channel One’s 2012-13 broadcast year began with a...
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Channel One News often allows movie stars to be “guest hosts” to welcome students to the broadcast and plug their movie.
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August 13, 2012 From Jim Metrock: Channel One News promotes R-rated movies, they just don’t do it directly. Here’s an example: Channel One advertises on their in-classroom TV show their sister company Findtuition.com. Young people who signin to Findtuition.com agree to receive emails from the company. I did this in 2008 and started receiving...
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News stories on Channel One News are often paid for by advertisers. http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/142411/armys-channel-one-effort-tells-soldiers-stories.html
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This article was originally published January 27, 2010. This video is from the late 90′s but it shows what Channel One News is all about. Channel One News is a marketing/advertising company that is trying to pretend to be a news gathering organization. They have always told the public their commercials are of...
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Cell phones and wireless services have been major advertisers on Channel One’s middle and high school TV show.
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Nonprofit urges schools to ban Channel One newscast over onslaught of commercials Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/08/11/nonprofit-group-calls-for-schools-across-country-to-ban-channel-one-newscast/?test=latestnews#ixzz23J2huMLC
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The article below was originally published on October 19, 2001. ____________________________________________________________ Channel One’s Insensitive Recap of 9/11 For Sixth Graders Above, children see the first Trade Tower after the plane hit. From Jim Metrock: On September 18, one week after the terrible attack...
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Video games and game systems are regular products advertised on Channel One News. This ad was shown in advance of Christmas 2006.
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What was Channel One News thinking? A youth obesity crisis was raging in the U.S. in 2003, yet Channel One ran numerous commercials to their captive audience for a new junk food: Lay’s Stax Potato Chips. These stackable chips had MORE calories than regular Lay’s chips. Sept. 19, 2003 – Betcha can’t eat...
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Excerpt from Children and Consumer Culture in American Society: A Historical Handbook and Guide (2007)
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — A Boston-based nonprofit group is asking Alabama school Superintendent Tommy Bice to suspend the use of Channel One programming in Alabama schools, reopening a debate over whether the 12-minute broadcast aimed at teens is appropriate. The group, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, asserts that the Channel One television news program —...
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Schools expel Channel One; new policy also limits ads, logos Thursday, November 22, 2001 By Keith Ervin Seattle Times staff reporter Disavowing its earlier flirtation with corporations catering to young consumers, the Seattle School Board voted yesterday to kick Channel One out of the schools and tone down the advertising on Coca-Cola vending machines. Although...
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