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Tom Hanson
9/28/2022 Texas and Alabama parents share the same problem. The difference: Texas parents...
Channel One News had many on-air personalities who acted goofy. Tom Hanson is shown...
From Jim Metrock: This is a SkoolLive contract from Arizona. The lawyer who wrote this didn’t do a good job of proofreading. I cleaned up some grammar mistakes but left plenty. (I can’t complain too much about grammar mistakes. I make my share.) Bad grammar is the least offensive thing about this contract....
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From Jim Metrock: Contracts, like government regulations, are hard to read unless you break the contract down into smaller pieces. Since law school days I have always found it helpful to write out the clauses, phrases, and qualifying terms, something like I’ve done below in blue. When I do that, it makes the true...
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From Jim Metrock: I am distressed by the number of school districts that have signed up to install Skoollive’s electronic billboards (aka kiosks). If all these districts have signed any type of contract with Skoollive, my faith in American education will take a big hit. Obligation, Inc. will be contacting these districts...
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From Jim Metrock: On August 28, 2017, Channel One News took valuable school time to tell their captive audience of school kids about the MTV Video Music Awards. The producers at Channel One must love MTV and the VMA show because they sent one of their on-air personalities Azia Celestino to Los Angeles to...
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From Jim Metrock: The big star this week on Channel One News was Maggie Rulli. Maggie Rulli!? Didn’t she quit Channel One News over a year ago? This is how Channel One works: if a news subject is somewhat timely, and Channel One has some old videos on that subject, they will simply replay...
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Channel One News demeans Civil Rights icon, tells students Kaepernick may be a modern day Rosa Parks. Kids told multi-millionaire Kaepernick is a helpless victim of corporations. Chilling transformation underway at Channel One News: More slanted news, more editorializing. From Jim Metrock: Channel One’s lovefest for Colin Kaepernick is disgusting. This follows Channel One’s bizarre...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One has never been popular in Massachusetts. Does the name “Billerica” sound familiar? It’s hilarious how the Dudley-Charlton school district in Dudley, MA “honors” their Channel One contract. Channel One’s contract states: 4) The School agrees to receive the Channel One News programs from Channel One and to show the...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One has always considered the Tuscaloosa County (AL) school district a loyal “Channel One district.” This district like most in Alabama that still have a trace of Channel One’s presence in its schools, doesn’t care a whit about the Channel One contract. The district’s Davis-Emerson Middle School has proudly shown...
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From Jim Metrock: It’s not working out. Channel One News limps into this new school year with an audience problem and a packaging problem. The “good old days” of over 8 million students in its captive audience are gone. Students at schools that still technically show the program, don’t see the program. Since...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One News calls themselves a “digital content provider dedicated to encouraging kids to be informed, digitally-savvy global citizens.” This is funny. Channel One News is no such thing. All summer long the lazy, wannabe reporters at Channel One have told schoolchildren NOTHING about current events. Why not? They have a...
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From Jim Metrock: You probably know about the ugly incident in May on Channel One News. Teens and preteens got a massive dose of Teen Vogue in a feature story Channel One showed that was nothing more than a very long commercial for the controversial Teen Vogue magazine/web site. Teen Vogue and...
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From Jim Metrock: Skoollive exists to sell advertising in schools. They are not having great success. If they were, they wouldn’t be lowering their ad package prices. Few businesses want to be associated with Skoollive’s efforts to bring video commercials into public school hallways. A local business who wants to support their local school...
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From Jim Metrock: This poll over three days, shows only 11 visitors cared to vote. It seems that 7 visitors (probably Channel One employees) nationwide, are excited about the notorious kiddie marketers at Channel One News returning on August 21. The efforts of parents and educators to eliminate this controversial, highly commercialized waste of...
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From Jim Metrock: When Skoollive talks about “Positive impact, lasting impact” they are NOT talking about anything educational. Their company is dedicated to making a lasting advertising and branding impact on students. Skoollive mainly serves advertisers, not students, not schools.
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Watch for yourself: channel-one-promo-video-rockridge-jr-high-dec-5-2016 Students: We’re Mrs. Benac’s sixth-grade class from Rockridge Junior High in Taylor Ridge, Illinois, and we’re flying into this Channel One! Azia: Thanks to Rockridge Junior High for takeoff on this Monday.
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One News has a long history of normalizing teen alcohol use. I’m posting this 2011 article to remind parents and educators why Channel One News is so controversial. From Channel One’s official scripts for April 7 and 8, 2011 (Our highlights in RED and our comments in BLUE): On April 7, 2011,...
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From Jim Metrock: It’s been discovered recently that one of Skoollive’s advertising partners is McDonald’s. Of course no fast food company will dare advertise their fast food in public schools, so what they try to do nowadays is simply promote their brand. Even the repulsive Channel One News no longer allows McDonald’s golden arches to...
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From Jim Metrock: Why would the kiddie marketers at Channel One News advertise Hostess Twinkies to schoolchildren when they knew there was a childhood obesity crisis in the country? The reason is simple: Channel One News was created by advertising and marketing people to sell whatever they could get away with to a captive...
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From Jim Metrock: Educators don’t like Channel One News because it often makes a circus of their classrooms. The kiddie marketers at Channel One have to bring crazy, goofy images and loud sounds into schools in order to get students to WATCH THE COMMERCIALS. Unless students turn their eyes to Channel One’s advertising, they...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One News doesn’t spend most of its time covering hard news. It can’t. It would be too expensive, and besides, the show is always a day late because it is, even in 2017, a taped show. Channel One could produce a live show that would be more current for...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One’s parent company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt reported today that it lost $46.9 million in its second quarter. How much of that is due to Channel One is unknown. Houghton Mifflin rarely mentions Channel One by name anymore. Houghton Mifflin lost $8 million in the Second Quarter of 2015. Houghton...
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