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Channel One News had many on-air personalities who acted goofy. Tom Hanson is shown...
Disney’s Buena Vista Home Video knows the power of advertising on school milk carton. The image above was taken from MilkMedia’s web site. MilkMedia obviously wants to dazzle potential advertisers by showing how Disney uses milk cartons to sell DVDs to children. Can’t a child drink a carton of milk at school without...
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Paper Heart is one of the milder PG-13 movies Alloy/Channel One News has advertised. Advertising any PG-13 movie breaks their 2001 promise to school officials and the public. It was December, 2000 when Channel One News made a momentous decision. Channel One executives decided to "push the envelope" about as far as they...
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This is a frame grab from the actual video replay of Alloy/Channel One News’ TV show for November 18. This was seen in middle schools and some elementary schools. The arrogance of Alloy/Channel One News is amazing. Obligation has written Alloy/Channel One News’ CEO Kent Haehl and his marketing toady Dr. Paul D....
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From Jim Metrock: Alloy/Channel One News continues their intense advertising assault on kids to get them to buy Cassie Steele’s CD Destructo Doll (“Baby put your sex on me.” “Short and sweet and hot as f***!”). What you see above is from Channelone.com. Our previous article showed how this Channel One was advertising this...
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MilkMedia wants potential advertisers to know how effective ads are on the side of school milk cartons. Here they talk about the Cartoon Network and how they used MilkMedia’s access to kids to their advantage. The simple truth is children are going to drink milk and contrary to what MilkMedia says these ads...
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Obligation can’t get Dr. Folkemer to answer our emails, so we put some words in his mouth. This is what we think this educator-turned-Kiddie Marketer would say. Dr. Folkemer is one of the few remaining executives at Alloy/Channel One News. He is certainly familiar with everything the company is advertising to teens and...
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As we have reported Alloy/Channel One News is heavily promoting a music group called Sick of Sarah. You may not be able to hear the lyrics in the YouTube video above, but you can follow along with the lyrics printed below. Alloy/Channel One News is in such bad financial shape they will...
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Has Britney Christian played a concert at your child’s school? Were you told academic time was being interrupted so Milk Rocks could promote milk consumption? If so, the joke’s on your school. [The picture of Britney with her arm up is from Milk Rocks. We placed her CD "Everthing to Me" in her hand...
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Here’s another Teen.com ad forced on students down to the fifth grade. Private is a TV show that doesn’t appear on TV. It is only seen online. That means anything goes. Private like Gossip Girl is taken from an Alloy Media and Marketing book. Should a public school be promoting this web-only programming? Did...
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Frame shot of Alloy/Channel One News ad for Teen.com. The ad features X-rated rapper Ludacris. From Jim Metrock, president of Obligation, Inc.: Click on the picture above and watch an actual commercial that ran in American classrooms. Students compelled to watch Channel One News are now getting a steady dose of ads urging...
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Everybody should be sick of Sarah. This is one of the bands that use class time to promote their music. What a sick joke on students and parents. This is the ugly reality of Alloy/Channel One News. Alloy/Channel One News is now advertising musical artists throughout each daily TV program. This is...
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Alloy/Channel One robs schoolchildren of precious school time. How can that be repaid? If Channel One News is being shown in a school, it is because there is a legal contract between the school or school district and Alloy Media and Marketing/Channel One. Channel One wrote the contract. They should know what...
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This is an ad taken from Alloy/Channel One’s youth website. Children see the first frame, "The next time you think school feels like a prison…" then they see the others follow. Who gave Alloy/Channel One News permission to advertise this type of content to young people?
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MilkMedia, the company that puts advertising on the sides of children’s milk cartons, brags on their website that their ads make an impact on children. The milk carton ads worked for three of the WB Network’s cartoon shows and therefore the network ordered more ads for additional TV shows. Notice MilkMedia’s wording: "Those promotions...
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The above ad did not appear on Channel One. Channel One, however, is promoting the program. Why would Alloy/Channel One promote Gossip Girl to teens and preteens? Because Channel One is own and totally controlled by Alloy Media and Marketing. Alloy created Gossip Girl books and licensed the story to the CW Network....
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Ad from the Channel One News website. Channel One News continues to promote Cliff Notes to students. Now they are urging young people to download the Cliff Notes iPhone application. Everything advertised on the Channel One News TV show and on Channelone.com is implicitly endorsed by the schools that have a contract with Channel...
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Meet Adriana Diaz. If your child attends a school that still shows Alloy’s Channel One News, then he or she knows Adriana. She gets a lot of face time on the in-school TV show. She is one of the pretend reporters on the show and she is also a pitch person for advertisers on...
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Another part of MilkMedia is called Milk Rocks. Here is some of the advertising they bring into schools. G.I. Joe The Rise of Cobra? This advertising campaign obviously is in support of the release of the PG-13 movie by the same name. This movie was also promoted on the side of milk cartons in...
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MilkMedia has advertised LeapFrog’s Fly Pentop on the side of schoolchildren’s milk cartons. Below are some sample cartons from MilkMedia’s website. Notice the carton on the right has the Spanish word for milk "leche." MilkMedia would have us believe that one word transforms these ads into a "drink more milk" message. It does not....
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This 2003 article from Anime News Network reports on the WB Network use of MilkMedia to encourage kids to watch their anime programming. MilkMedia president Richard Long boasts of his ability to expose millions of schoolchildren to advertising messages. "The sheer number of impressions is mind boggling," Long says. I don’t believe MilkMedia will...
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Alloy/Channel One News is now on Facebook, but they are not there to keep kids up to date on current events. Oh, there is some of that, but that’s not why Alloy/Channel One exists. This is a company that is constantly thinking of how they can serve their advertisers. Alloy/Channel One’s job is to...
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MilkMedia is a company that puts advertising on the side of schoolchildren’s milk cartons. This is their logo and tag line: MilkMedia, Build Stronger Brands MilkMedia isn’t about building stronger BONES. MilkMedia isn’t about building stronger BODIES. Stronger BRANDS! It’s a little arrogant, but it’s true to what they do. We can’t fault a...
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