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Channel One News had many on-air personalities who acted goofy. Tom Hanson is shown...
VIDEO: Helen Knight Elementary School promo video for Channel One March 7 2018 From Jim Metrock: Each of these students should have been paid between $170 and $250 f0r their performance in a scripted commercial for Channel One. Did Grand County school officials get informed, written consent from all parents before plastering their child’s...
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From Jim Metrock: SkoolLive, those loveable kiddie marketers who just can’t seem to do anything right (thank goodness), is doing yet another “do over.” Will the public no longer see the unpleasant, frantic video that begins automatically on their home page? What a shame, after all, somebody paid for that. Don’t get your hopes...
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From Jim Metrock: To understand what the marketing geniuses at Channel One did today on its in-school TV show, you have to understand the current “war” between the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the DC Expanded Universe. Two movie studios have their own cast of superheros (Marvel: Spiderman, Black Panther and DC: Superman,...
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Play audio: https://kjzz.org/content/613395/digital-touch-screens-display-school-information-ads-students
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Digital billboards put ads in front of students. Are they harvesting personal info, too? Anne Ryman, The Republic | azcentral.com. Feb. 20, 2018 When Perry High School in Gilbert installed 7-foot-tall kiosks with digital screens on campus last year, it joined more than 160 schools that use the technology across the country. The electronic screens could display...
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VIDEO: Channel One and Demopolis Middle Feb 20 2018 From Jim Metrock: This morning, Channel One News featured a video of students from Demopolis Middle School, Demopolis, AL. And just the other day I was bragging that Alabama schools have done so well ridding their classrooms of Channel One’s marketing scam. A school...
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Channel One News told us a long time ago who they really are. You won’t like who they really are.
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Video: Channel One News Somerset Area JH Feb 14 2018
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From Jim Metrock: Ugh. This is another new low for the kiddie marketers at Channel One. Today’s Channel One TV show opened with 3rd-graders! reciting the “Channel One News starts right now” script. These are 8-year-old children. What was this teacher thinking? What was the principal thinking? (If the principal even knew what was...
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From Channel One’s February 9 transcript: Students: We are Mr. Cantwell’s fifth-period social studies class from Marsh Creek Sixth Grade Center in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, and Channel One News starts right now! E-A-G-L-E-S … Eagles!
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From Jim Metrock: It seems there are more than a few schools that love to film videos for the controversial, kiddie marketing firm Channel One. Here’s one from Derby, Kansas. From Channel One’s transcript for Feb. 2, 2018: Students: This is Mr. Loop’s fourth-hour social studies class at Derby Middle School in Derby,...
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From Jim Metrock: Here’s another school allowing its students to film a commercial (the students and teacher don’t know its a commercial, but it is) for the struggling youth marketing firm called Channel One News. Most schools have better things to do with their precious school time. Let’s hope the Waynefield-Goshen Local School district...
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From Jim Metrock: To Channel One News employees, children are a target market. They are simply young consumers. When you think of kids that way, you are prone to be a bit insensitive. Channel One News has a long history of putting age-inappropriate content before the eyes of schoolchildren. That’s why they have lost...
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From Jim Metrock: If you find it hard to believe a kiddie marketing company like Channel One is still in business, this 2006 video from the Media Education Foundation may help you understand why American classrooms attract the likes of Houghton Mifflin’s Channel One.
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From Jim Metrock: If you are a company advertising on Channel One, what’s wrong with this picture?
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From Jim Metrock: This is from over a decade ago, but it shows the mindset of the advertising bosses that have run Channel One News from its founding in 1989 to the present day. Journalists don’t run Channel One News – never have. Educators don’t run Channel One News – never have. Channel One...
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From Jim Metrock: I’ve seen students film themselves doing a lot of silly things just for a chance to be seen on Channel One News. You see, Channel One is constantly asking students and teachers to send in classroom videos that can be used to kick off their daily show. Channel One requires students...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One News is pushing the envelope again. Today they shocked classrooms across the country with a story on young people eating laundry detergent pods. Teachers were given no warning about the nature of today’s show. They were not warned that Channel One, for some idiotic reason, decided to show students...
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From Jim Metrock: I’ve shown examples of this before. Channel One itself proves it has an increasingly small audience. Take this Caption Contest post from Channel One’s FaceBook page. For some reason, Channel One thinks students like this type of immature content. The picture was posted on January 8 and as of January 16,...
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From Jim Metrock: Here’s another school district that not only continues to show the controversial Channel One News TV show but allows their students to do a promotional video for the struggling kiddie marketing firm. Hey, Mr. Nichols, 6th-grade science teacher, turn off the TV set and give your students ONE EXTRA HOUR of...
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Houghton Mifflin’s most controversial employees have to be the on-air personalities at their troubled company Channel One News. Here you see them, on December 20, waving “bye-bye” to schoolchildren who are forced to watch their TV show. They will not give the news to kids until Wednesday, January 3, 2018! That means for 14...
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