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Channel One News is back in the business of advertising junk drinks. Over the past month Channel One’s official website channelone.com has put an ad from the Coca-Cola company in its rotation of banner ads. Clicking on this banner takes kids directly to the Coke site shown below. There is no warning to children...
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free iron bowl tickets witt’s reply From Jim Metrock: In the past month I have tried twice to obtain a brief meeting with Dr. Robert Witt, the president of the University of Alabama. I knew he was probably going to continue with the status quo, but I really thought he would meet with me....
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This commercial ran in the 2009/10 school year. How can a student not watch this commercial? When you see this 30-second commercial, think of six million students watching it at various schools on the same day. That is a tremendous loss of school time. This nonsense goes on every school day, mainly in schools...
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It is breathtaking to see the collapse of the Channel One kiddie marketing empire. In 2003 Channel One claimed to have “over 8 million” schoolchildren under contract to their company. Seven years later, Channel One claims they have “nearly 6 million” in its captive audience. That means the figure is 5 million something....
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By Mitchell Toy From: Sunday Herald Sun July 18, 2010 SOCIAL media networks such as Facebook and Twitter are making teen web surfers dumber, more than half of their parents believe. But less than half believe the sites are impacting on their health and wellbeing. New cyber-safety research commissioned by Telstra reveals 65 per cent of...
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Boys and girls, it’s time for your Summer Update! From Jim Metrock: Channel One News often defends their company by saying they are the only source of news for many young people. If Channel One went away, then these poor, helpless children would be in the dark about current events. Obligation has had great...
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If Alloy Media and Marketing the current parent company of Channel One News left a bad taste in the mouths of parents and educators, wait until ZelnickMedia completes their planned purchase of Alloy this fall. ZelnickMedia is an investor group that owns Take-Two Interactive which in turn owns Rockstar Games which created the Grand...
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From Channel One’s Facebook page. Other children have posted their thanks to Channel One for wasting school time.
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Some of the advertisers have changed, but Channel One’s attitude towards kids has not. Schoolchildren are a source of money to Channel One’s executives. Whatever they want to advertise to kids is OK. They will tell parents that kids don’t pay attention to the commercials, but as you hear, they brag about their impact...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One News has always been considered a joke by the vast majority of American educators. (“You want a school to give up one hour of school time EACH WEEK so you can show students commercials? In exchange for the rental use of an outdated TV network??”) But one of the...
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http://thestir.cafemom.com/big_kid/105790/alcohol_pushed_to_kids_on Posted by Jeanne Sager on July 2, 2010 at 11:45 AM Parents, it’s time to stop worrying about perverts on Facebook. And start worrying about the marketers. The alcohol marketers. If your child signs on to Facebook today and enters their real age — anything under 21 — there’s nothing to stop them from...
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/7858189/Are-Twitter-and-Facebook-affecting-how-we-think.html Are Twitter and Facebook affecting how we think? Is constant use of electronic gadgets reshaping our brains and making our thinking shallower? Neil Tweedie reports. By Neil Tweedie Published: 7:08AM BST 28 Jun 2010 How many times do you click on your email icon in a day? Or look at Facebook, or Twitter? And...
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This clip picks up after two brief headlines that take a minute each Channel One’s Shelby Holliday gives a “teaser” for a NASCAR story after the commercial break. Ms. Holliday knows there is no need for a “teaser” since schools are contractually required to show the controversial Channel One News program to the captive...
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This is from the 2007 minutes of the Cache County School District Board of Education meeting. We wonder about this Utah school board. Incentive?? If they consider the program “not very effective” – which is true – than why incentivize students to watch it? Channel One News effectively wastes taxpayer money and wastes school...
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Cum Laude (book review by Elizabeth Willse) Cecily von Ziegesar Hyperion June 2010 $23.99 272 pages Cum Laude follows four students from their freshman orientation through the end of their first semester at the fictional Dexter College, a tiny and kind of upscale Maine school. Tom is a preppy jock type, the unlikely roommate...
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Because Alloy Media and Marketing created the smutty Gossip Girl books and TV show and they also own Channel One News. They purchased Channel One News in 2007 so they could advertise their offensive books and TV shows to a captive audience of schoolchildren.
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“Schools also will claim the 10 minutes devoted each day to Channel One, a student-produced information program.” http://www2.tricities.com/tri/news/local/article/bristol_virginia_school_board_adds_minutes_to_school_day/42334/ It’s all about time. In 2010, there are few schools in the situation where they can waste one hour a week watching a controversial, commercial TV show.
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The educators and administrators at Clayton Ridge High School in Guttenberg, Iowa are not about to waste taxpayer money showing Channel One News and its commercials during the school day. In violation of Channel One’s contract they show the program “outside the bells” which, of course, Channel One News hates because there is no...
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The once great guitarist continues to be a pitchman for Channel One News. Channel One claims they have nearly six million students in their captive audience. If only half of them watched this 30-second commercial, then 25,000 student hours were lost – in one day. No school that cares about maximizing academic efforts can...
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