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9/28/2022 Texas and Alabama parents share the same problem. The difference: Texas parents...
Tom Hanson
Channel One News had many on-air personalities who acted goofy. Tom Hanson is shown...
TV network buys children’s “pop quiz” to plug new show
Channel One executives once again make a joke of their “news” show by selling a whole “non-commercial” segment of their program to the Cartoon Network to promote their new TV show called Level Up. Selling their Pop Quiz to advertisers is nothing new for Channel One. This is a deceptive practice because the ad...
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Critics Slam Channel One’s Commercials
By Abby Graham-Pardus TRIBUNE-REVIEW Sunday, August 10, 2003 Susan Linn knows children’s television. She began her career in children’s entertainment, where her work included several appearances with her puppets working on “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood” with the late Fred Rogers. ” I’ve always had a really strong interest to use media to promote the health and well-being of children,”...
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Revisiting Time Magazine’s “Captive Audience: Has Advertising in School Gone Too Far?” (2010)
“Channel One News, an in-school TV network launched in 1990 and used in about 8,000 U.S. middle and high schools, has long been a target of criticism because its 12-minute broadcasts include ads. A study published in 2006 in Pediatrics found that on average, students remember more ads from the broadcasts than news stories.”...
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Some Louisiana schools that show movie commercials to students during the school day.
No, they really do. Archbishop Chapelle HS Bourgeois HS Cope MS Downsville HS Eunice JHS Hanson Memorial HS Lutcher HS St. Paul’s School Vidalia JHS Welsh SJ MS Youree Drive MS Zwolle HS
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Some Indiana schools that show movie commercials to students during the school day.
No, they really do. Avon MS North Boston MS Brown Intermediate Center Brownstown Central Middle School Carroll MS Central Noble HS Covington HS Custer Baker Intermediate DeKalb MS Doe Creek MS Driver MS Grimmer MS Jasper MS Justice Intermediate School Kesling MS Kouts MS & HS Maple Ridge Elementary New Prairie MS Noblesville...
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Channel One News Hall of Shame: Stealth TV (2001)
“Channel One’s then-president bragged to a youth marketing conference in 1994, ‘The biggest selling point to advertisers … we are forcing kids to watch two minutes of commercials… . The advertiser gets a group of kids who cannot go to the bathroom, who cannot change the station, who cannot listen to their mother yell in the background,...
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Lardner Middle School wins first Wastin’ School Time and Tax Dollars Award
We have a winner! Four Wastin’ School Time and Tax Dollars awards will be given out each school year by Obligation. The first winner is Lardner Middle School in the Niles Community School District in Niles, Michigan. Lardner beat out several other schools. Other schools nominated for the first award were: Avon Middle School...
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Find the Samsung Focus ad on Channel One’s homepage
When Channel One News wants to sell a young person something (which is the main reason the company exists), they don’t fool around. For weeks Channel One has been pounding students in their classrooms and visitors to their website (channelone.com) with ads for the Samsung Focus smart phone. Above one sees a Samsung...
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Obligation ramps up website, adds mobile version.
From Jim Metrock: We have redesigned Obligation.org to make it easier to find articles, videos and PDFs. This time of year is when schools begin talking about ending their contracts with Channel One. School boards often vote in the spring time to remove the program over the upcoming summer months. Making our website more...
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It’s fun to watch movie commercials at Castle Dome Middle School
From Jim Metrock: Here’s another nominee for our Wastin’ Time and Tax Dollars award: Castle Dome Middle School in Yuma, AZ. Not only does the school spend valuable time watch Channel One with its ads for rock bands and movies, but the principal, Lori A. Sheffield, allowed students to take up time to...
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Q&a: Southern Baptist resolution
Q: Did the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest U.S. Protestant denomination, really pass a resolution denouncing Channel One News? A: It’s true and the unanimous 1999 resolution had a devastating effect on the controversial youth marketing company. The resolution which received national attention helped cause Channel One...
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Channel One’s deceptive arcade
From Jim Metrock: The website for Channel One News has always been one of the uglier parts of this controversial youth marketing company. The adults running the site act as if their young visitors are merely a source of revenue. There is little protection for young people who venture on the site. Channel One’s...
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Channel One News teases kids with references to Californication and Dexter.
Why would Channel One News talk this way to children?
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