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Tom Hanson
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Channel One News had many on-air personalities who acted goofy. Tom Hanson is shown...
From Jim Metrock: Channel One News wants American school kids to equate Colin Kaepernick with the civil rights icon Rosa Parks. The producer at Channel One wrote this script with a clear bias in favor of the unemployed, National Anthem-protesting athlete. Channel One chose to include a line that unnamed “fans” compared the millionaire...
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Students at North Vermilion Middle School in Maurice, LA take a break from studies and film a shout out to Channel One News. Do not confuse this school with North Vermilion Community School in Cayuga, IN which would never waste school time in this way. From Channel One News transcript November 15, 2017:...
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From Jim Metrock: I’ve never met Jack Lynch the current CEO of Houghton Mifflin and overseer of Channel One. He looks like a nice guy, but I suspect that when it comes to making money off of children, he can be one ruthless, son-of-a-gun. Look at the language Lynch and his executives have...
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Cleveland City Schools’ new slogan: Target Marketing Every Child, Every Day! Cleveland City Schools in Cleveland, TN have agreed to the placement of SkoolLive electronic billboards in all eight of its schools. School administrators have surprisingly OKed the placement of SkoolLive’s notorious electronic billboards in all of the system’s elementary schools. Cleveland City...
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From Jim Metrock: Let’s have some fun with the guy that’s responsible for the controversial Channel One News program.
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Serial killers: John Wayne Gacy, Ed Gein, Jeffery Dahmer, Demetrius Pipkin!?? From Jim Metrock: What does a 3rd grader know about serial killers? The nitwits at Channel One News evidently believe elementary school kids should know enough about serial killers to get the “funny” joke they...
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Note to Channel One News: Some parents will not like your company exposing their child to disturbing images of terrorism. From Jim Metrock: Houghton Mifflin’s bad boy subsidiary Channel One has a history of showing inappropriate, often horrific, images to unsuspecting schoolchildren, some just out of elementary school. Here is a small sampling of...
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From Jim Metrock: Our good friend at the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (CCFC) have been a great ally in the very successful battle to end Channel One’s commercial exploitation of public school children. Although this CCFC letter was directed to a school district in Ohio, it can be of help to any school...
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From Jim Metrock: Today, Channel One News took over 2 minutes of their in-classroom TV show to promote a horror, fantasy TV show called “Shadowhunters.” As you watch the clip think about all the taxpayer money that paid for every second of this promotion. Taxpayers pay for every second of public school time. Doesn’t...
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From Jim Metrock: To understand the reality of Houghton Mifflin’s controversial Channel One News in 2017, it is important to know… Channel One has lost roughly half of the schools they had in the 1990s. With a much smaller audience, Channel One’s advertising revenue is significantly lower. Because they have less money, Channel One...
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From Jim Metrock: Houghton Mifflin has a history of making bad decisions. The company has gone through several financial restructurings in recent years. The company’s last restructuring was indeed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2012. Houghton Mifflin used the bankruptcy laws to walk away from a cool $3.1 billion in debt. Any company that...
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From Jim Metrock: This agreement was copied word for word from Channelone.com. Like other Channel One-produced content, this agreement is full of punctuation mistakes and a few misspellings, but that isn’t the reason I’m posting it. I seriously doubt if Channel One, in their financial condition, has an attorney anymore. There might be a...
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Copied from Channelone.com on October 8, 2017: Terms of Use Effective Date: March 8, 2013. PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY. IT SETS FORTH THE LEGALLY BINDING TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE. Introduction and Overview Welcome! You have arrived at an online service location (e.g., web site or mobile app) that...
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By Angela Gonzales – Senior Reporter, Phoenix Business Journal Jul 17, 2016 Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood is advocating against SkoolLive Inc.’s entry into schools. San Diego-based SkoolLive Inc. has entered the Arizona market, installing 71 kiosks in 38 schools throughout the state that allow schools to streamline school announcements and messages formerly posted...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One News is a taped show. Even though there is less pressure with a canned program, mistakes pop up on the program. This may be because Channel One News is more about advertising than journalism. Students watching Channel One News see U.S. Senator Bob Corker (R-Tenn) discussing the Russia investigation. However,...
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Wakefield Middle School student performs a backward somersault to help promote a school vendor. What if she was injured doing this? Did the teacher or school obtain informed, written consent from parents of students before they performed and read their script and before their likenesses were nationally distributed? Does the Wake County Public School System...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One News keeps on plugging Teen Vogue and their radical sexual and political agenda with high school, middle school, and elementary school kids. Elementary school students?! Yes, Channel One has a version of their daily show for elementary school students. They say they do not have advertising on this...
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SkoolLive brags about advertising debit cards to secondary school students. From Jim Metrock: It’s a bit unusual for a high school to actively encourage students to apply for a debit card. Not sayin’ it hasn’t been done before, but… the La Porte High School in Indiana (not the Texas school by the same name)...
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From Jim Metrock: Congratulations to the community of Elida, Ohio for removing the controversial Channel One News program from their schools. School officials listened to parents and took the responsible step of removing Channel One’s often age-inappropriate content from classrooms. Parents in Elida greatly benefitted from the behind-the-scenes help of the Campaign for a...
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