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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...
Oops, they did it again. It is difficult to get any true figures on how many schools still have Channel One. We know that their revenue has been cut in half over the years, so that would indicate that advertisers believe their audience is much less than before. Still, the public has to rely...
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When a Channel One News show comes on a classroom TV set, students and teachers should be asking a few questions. Media literacy is about better understanding the media messages that come at us so fast that they usually escape critical thinking. It is ironic that the one TV show that needs to be...
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On August 17, Channel One added this language to their channelone.com website: WIRELESS MARKETING SERVICES AND PROMOTIONAL OPPORTUNITIES ChannelOne.com may provide its users and viewers with the opportunity to register for special promotions, services, news, programming and information delivered via text messaging and other wireless devices such as mobile phones. Users are required to...
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Obligation has said it for ten years: Channel One’s TV show and its website are not age-appropriate for middle school students. Now Channel One agrees with us, at least about the Channel One website. Below: Last month, this new language was very quietly placed on Channelone.com: The bold print is Channel One’s. If you...
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Barack Obama is the junior U. S. Senator from Illinois. Yesterday, Channel One ran a lengthy report on his recent visit to Africa. It was puzzling why Channel One’s producers chose this story for their broadcast. There were so many other more newsworthy stories to cover on August 30 when this show was taped....
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School bus radio a bad idea Friday, September 1, 2006 A Needham-based company is trying to sign up school systems to run its radio programs on school buses. The idea is so dubious it seems to be falling of its own weight, but for good measure the state Education Department should weigh in with...
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"Prior to installing Channel One, the district schools had a program called ‘sustained silent reading,’ in which everyone in the schools stopped what they were doing every day for fifteen minutes and read something–a book, a magazine article, an assignment–in total silence. Channel One replaced the reading." This is an article we recently...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One’s daily TV show is suppose to have no more than two minutes of commercial content. That promise is written into its contract. School boards relied on that promise, as well as others in the contract, terms of agreement, and Channel One’s news standards, when they agreed to turn over...
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"Tick" video. (This is what preteens watched on August 29, 2006) A new and equally ominous spot from Environmental Defense has been approved by Channel One. The new video is called "Tick." Various children are shown saying, "Tick." That is "tick" as in time bomb. This is another "death play" by ED. Children will...
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Schoolchildren in New Orleans and surrounding areas got a jolt this morning. Another hurricane may be heading their way. Only one news source was reporting this disturbing development – Channel One News. They weren’t breaking a news story – just the opposite. They had stayed too long with an old story. Channel One news...
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Channel One’s new best buddy, Democratic "Pit Bull" James Carville, welcomes C1N to DC and students to a new year of indentured servitude. from Channel One News August 14, 2006 script JAMES CARVILLE SHOUT-OUT CARVILLE: WE HAVE A LOT IN WASHINGTON. THE CAPITOL, THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS, THE WHITE HOUSE, THE MALL. BUT WE...
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East Bay, RI East Bay Newspapers Wednesday, August 21, 2006 Swansea School Committee tunes into Bus Radio Monday SWANSEA – The prospect of Swansea and other towns allowing broadcasts by the Bus Radio company on their school buses has sparked controversy in Massachusetts. The Bus Radio company has proposed to install and maintain radios...
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Channel One’s web site (advertised relentlessly on their in-school TV show) is once again prominently promoting their "Kabbalah Love Calculator." This is part of their year-long, self-described "Massive Astrology Guide" for preteens and teens. Astrology is evidently a "big thing" with Channel One News personnel. Why is a current events web site featuring "love...
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Channel One News is giving a group called Environment Defense unprecedented access to millions of teens and preteens. ED believes drastic action must be taken to stop global warming or the planet will suffer major consequences. Several...
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8:57 PM CDT – We checked Channel One’s web site just now and were surprised to see MONDAY’s script posted already. This is a good example of how stale Channel One’s news is. The producers actually have anchor Meka Nichols say the line, "Let’s start with today’s headlines." That was probably said by Ms....
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It costs money to cover a news story. That’s why Channel One News covers so few of them. Unfortunately for C1N, each weekday during the school year, they HAVE to produce a show. That show has to be at least 12 minutes in length. What are you to do when you only have a...
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C1N adds a picture of the dying woman so children can visualize who is being burned alive. Is there no one at Channel One News that has preteen children? Is there anyone there who understands that some children may not be able to handle this terror? This week New York City’s law department released...
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Eileen Wu (Columbia), Alexander Marquardt (Georgetown), Meka Nichols (Harvard Law) Channel One News limps into another school year after a disastrous 2005-06 season. After losing four of their reporters (Errol Barnett, Seth Doane, Melissa Knowles and Rich DeMuro), the company has hired these three to join Cali Carlin. At one time, when Channel One News was...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One’s collapse continues. Years of mismanagement haunt this sad company. The mismanagement obviously is continuing. It looks as if PRIMEDIA, Inc. realizes that Channel One News is unsalable. Why they don’t simply shut down Channel One and donate the pathetically old TV equipment to schools remains a mystery. In the...
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"Who tells the stories of a culture really governs human behavior. It used to be the parent, the school, the church, the community. Now it’s a handful of global conglomerates that have nothing to tell, but a great deal to sell." – George Gerbner ACME Accuracy in Media AdBusters Alliance for a...
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Ban BusRadio, Romney asked By RORY SCHULER Staff Writer 08/01/2006 TAUNTON -An Oregon-based activist group, Commercial Alert, has asked Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to stop BusRadio’s efforts to be heard on the Commonwealth’s public school buses. "Public education in Massachusetts is a public trust," the group’s executive director, Gary Ruskin, wrote in a letter...
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