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Another “Winner” Portage High School
“Channel One” is on the Portage High School bell schedule. It is not often we find high schools carving out formal time for Channel One’s news/marketing show. Middle schools do that, but generally high schools are trying to eliminate as much non-academic time as possible. We emailed the principal to confirm they are still...
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Channel One News pitches Red Bull and violent video games to middle schoolers
From Jim Metrock: Red Bull is an “energy drink” that has been the target of criticism concerning the possible health risks associated with the caffeine and sugar drink. Channel One News is once again giving the drink some marketing time in American classrooms. Channel One doesn’t run a commercial for Red Bull, but they...
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Dr. Paul Folkemer and Kent Haehl of Channel One continue to ignore our pleas to stop advertising gURL.com to kids.
What advice does gURL.com give to children? Click here but be warned. This is explicit material created by Alloy Media and Marketing. Alloy owns gURL.com and Channel One News. Both controversial companies cross promote each other. Parents and teachers should be outraged. Another reason why schools continue dropping Channel One from their school day....
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Hebron High loves Channel One News
From Jim Metrock: The big thing here is not that some students at Hebron High School did this video for Channel One’s benefit. The important thing is this video means Hebron H.S. is still showing Channel One and its commercials during its school day. (This after 1/3 of Channel One schools have...
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School time will be used to promote The Hunger Games movie. You don’t have a problem with that, do you?
See for yourself:
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Our email to CEO Kent Haehl and Channel One’s “child advocate” Dr. Paul Folkemer
Jim Metrock jimmetrock@obligation.org via gmail.com Mar 9 to pfolkemer, khaehl Both of you well know the content of gurl.com. It makes no sense for two men who have children and grandchildren to be exposing...
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Warning: Explicit content Channel One’s idea of good advice for girls.
From Jim Metrock: gURL.com is an extremely controversial website that contains explicit sexual content aimed at girls. This site’s target audience is not young women, but, as it’s name implies, girls – teen girls, tween girls, and preteen girls. gURL is owned by Alloy Media and Marketing as is Channel One News. Channel One...
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Channel One’s “journalists” on parade
On February 15, 2012 Channel One News used their crack team of “journalists” to show off school tee shirts. This one 30-second bit of nonsense cost students and taxpayers dearly. Channel One says they have “nearly 5.5 million” students. (They once claimed a captive audience of 8.1 million.) If half of their claimed audience...
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A principal who thought he worked for Channel One instead of his students. (1990)
From Jim Metrock: This is a short clip from the video Schools for Sale. I have always been fascinated with this video from Fargo, ND since 1997 when I first saw it. The principal Ed Raymond was very willing to suspend students for THREE DAYS if they did not go to the classroom...
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A classic video: Schools for Sale (1995)
In 1995 the Walt Whitman Center in association with Pacific Street Films produced this video to help parents and educators remove Channel One News from their schools. They hired the comedian Lewis Black to play the role of Jerry Adman. The film has been broken into two parts. Part ONE of Schools for...
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Find the news.
The top of the home page of Channel One’s official news website for children (channelone.com). Channel One News is a youth marketing company.
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Norwayne Middle School nominated for Wastin’ Time & Tax Dollars Award
“If you missed Channel One, you MUST (emphasis ours) go to the Channel One web site and make up your Channel One log for the days that you missed.” This easily wins Norwayne MS a coveted Wastin’ nomination. Does Norwayne’s principal Mr. Mario Re also require students to attend all movies advertised on Channel...
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School boards, make a vow to remove Channel One from your schools.
From Jim Metrock: Below is the front page of the “news” site called Channelone.com. This is what Channel One executives do when a movie studio waves some cash under their noses. They go crazy. The movie studio wanted Channel One News to get children into the theater for this PG-13 movie, so Channel One...
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The ad man that runs Channel One News.
From Obligation’s Jim Metrock: Alloy’s Matt Diamond loves to push the envelope with teens and preteens. Teen sex and teen drinking are frequently normalized and glamorized in the content he churns out. Evidently some teens and younger children love his stuff. Consequences? For kids? Well, that’s not a big concern evidently for the...
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Chronicle
Channel One News is now advertising the new movie Chronicle in middle schools and high schools. Channel One executives Kent Haehl CEO and Dr. Paul Folkemer VP gave the green light to this ad campaign even thought he movie is rated PG-13 for its sexual content and teen drinking. From the movie studio publicity...
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Channel One News wants your daughter to visit gURL.com.
From Jim Metrock: You’re about to see and read some disgusting stuff. Especially when you consider this material is aimed at teens, preteens, and very possibly elementary school-age children. Welcome to Channel One News’s sister company gURL.com. Channel One News is now urging children of all ages to not only visit this sexually...
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