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Click here to download this brochure. (PDF format) Supporting information for "10 Reasons to be glad you never had Channel One News" 1 Using sex to sell in the classroom 1 Welcome To The NEW Channel One News Sex Up The Classroom! The Classroom Commercial (video) How Scummy Can...
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From Jim Metrock: On the day that Channel One told kids to go see "Drillbit Taylor" – March 21 – I went to see it. I had sent CEO Kent Haehl and Education VP Dr. Paul Folkemer an email urging them to go see it also that day. ( I’m betting they didn’t.) The...
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From Jim Metrock: I encourage parents, educators, bus drivers and anybody supportive of commercial-free school buses to send this article to your school board and superintendent. Use the "printer-friendly version" button or the PDF link here. March 28, 2008 The Bus Radio Controversy Your seven-year-old daughter wants a CD by Fergie (it has...
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TONY: HEY GUYS, AN EARLY START TO THE HOLIDAY WEEKEND FOR MANY OF YOU MEANS AN EARLY CULTURECAST TOO! TONY: TODAY, IN CINCINNATI, OHIO, DELHI MIDDLE SCHOOL WILL HOST A 3 ON 3
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A child going to Channelone.com is greeted with this banner ad. The ad rotates through the three images below. Clicking on the ad takes the child to a contest entry form. There is no mention of the movie rating. From Jim Metrock: Today I discovered Channel One has a massive ad campaign...
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XXX-musician T-Pain Yeah! I’m on Bus Radio! Who’d ever think THAT would happen?? Hear for yourself. Bus Radio plays "Shawty Get Loose." Bus Radio is your official "Explicit Artist" radio station. No, the kids don’t hear offensive words (those are blurred, bleeped, or removed), but they do hear artist after artist known for...
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The first part of each Channel One News show is devoted to short "hard news" reports. On March 12, Channel One pulled a fast one on students and teachers. Angela Hunter, the new Channel One News Executive Producer, did something sneaky. She slipped in a "hard news" story about a new website called Hulu....
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Above: Lupe Fiasco’s recently released CD which features "Super Star." Hear Bus Radio introduce children to Lupe Fiasco. From Jim Metrock: Bus Radio is now playing an artist named Lupe Fiasco. At least one of his songs "Super Star" is on the company’s playlist. This song shows up on iTunes as an "explicit"...
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Bus Radio has a new contest. This time it’s aim at children riding school buses and not bus drivers. The contest is open to those "between the ages of 5 and 18." What!? No child is out-of-bounds for this company. Here is a picture taken from the first page of their Busradio.com site: Look...
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Channel One turns classrooms over to Paramount Studios Actual still pictures of what students were forced to watch. On February 15, Channel One News ran a commercial for Paramount Studio’s "The Spiderwick Chronicles." The movie is rated PG which means it’s one of the less offensive movies advertised during the classroom channel’s 17-year history....
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Notice the small print for kids to read. Channel One’s executives are probably bent over laughing at this trick on kids. No child can read this on Channel One’s pathetically old TV sets. If you are aiming a contest at children you should take the time to explain the rules and fine print, but...
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BUS RADIO PLAY’s “LET’S GET IT STARTED” This picture is from the music video for the Black Eyed Peas’ “Let’s Get It Started.” This is the lead singer who calls himself “will.i.am”. Many students, especially in younger grades, have never heard of this group or of will.i.am. Now thanks to Bus Radio there are...
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From Jim Metrock: Bus Radio is continuing their efforts to put cash (actually American Express gift cards) in bus drivers’ pockets. For fifteen days in February, Bus Radio is offering drivers a chance to win a $100 American Express gift card each day. This should be a serious concern to school administrators and school...
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Littleton Public Schools have discontinued the use of Bus Radio. That community owes big thanks to Danny Kenny. Mr. Kenny drives an elementary school bus. He didn’t think Bus Radio should be playing the songs they were playing for his young riders. He was appalled to hear that Bus Radio promoted the raunchy TV...
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Listen to the clean song from an explicit-content CD by an explicit-content singer. Oh no, again? Bus Radio’s DJs are yet again pulling songs off of explicit content CDs to play to children. Bus Radio appears to have a separate online radio broadcast that evidently is playing the same songs they play on school...
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Kids, doesn’t this look like fun? From Jim Metrock: Since 1990, Channel One News has been quietly shaping the opinions and values of the students who are forced to watch the program. Over the years Channel One News has sent kids some very bad messages. For most of their history they advertised the...
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Bus Radio claims they did not play "Stronger" for elementary school kids. Elementary school bus driver Danny Kenny in Colorado said they did. “Nobody can hear it but the driver and the kids. They played Stronger by Kanye West, and I was thinking this is not an appropriate song for kindergartners or fifth-graders.” Although...
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Things continue to spiral downward for Channel One News. The company quietly hired Angela Hunter a former Channel One producer and camera person to be their newest Senior Vice President. She will be the Executive Producer. (With so few people left at Channel One’s headquarters, the term "Senior Vice President" is more for future...
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A song from this CD "THE BLACK PARADE" was played for kids on Bus Radio. Say it ain’t so, Bus Radio. Today, Obligation discovered that the company has added a song from a another vulgar band to their playlist. This week, children on buses playing the "Mat and Lucia Show" on Bus Radio were...
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Give it back! Give it back! Bus Radio is running yet another contest for bus drivers. This time they may have gone too far. Currently the company is offering bus drivers a chance to win one of three American Express gift cards, each valued at $500. This is a very bad idea. Nobody...
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Dr. Paul Folkemer is back. Press Release Source: Channel One Network Channel One Appoints Dr. Paul Folkemer SVP, Director of Education Thursday January 24, 8:55 am ET Position to Focus on the Delivery of Education Standards-Based News Content and Resources to Over Six Million Teens NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Channel One, the preeminent news...
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