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Students who wear glasses must dread being forced to watch Channel One. Earlier this year we reported on an insensitive commercial for Acuvue contact lens. This month Channel One has approved another hard-hitting Acuvue ad aimed at teens and preteens. In this ad a male student is a relay runner on the school track team. He likes being...
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Scenes from "The OC" (Second Season) "OC" stands for Orange County, CA. The OC is one of Fox Network’s TV shows that normalize alcohol and drug use among young people. The sexual content on the show is extreme. The OC made headlines in its second season when two characters develop a lesbian relationship. The...
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"Reporter" interviews students about Clear & Clean. Guess what? They like it a lot. Mixing news with advertising is routine at Channel One. any journalist weep. Since the beginning of this school year, Channel One has been running a Clear & Clean ad that would make true journalists weep. After a regular, network...
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If your middle school student didn’t know the street names for methamphetamine, Melissa Knowles, Channel One anchor will make sure he or she learns them. All these pictures are from Channel One’s feed to middle school students. Some in the audience are as young as ten. Students are shown the various ways that meth is ingested. On one hand...
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Verizon Wireless has become one of the main advertisers on Channel One. Verizon didn’t ask for permission to come into classrooms. They did not seek the approval of any school board or superintendent or even the "OK" from principals. Verizon is taking up school time with its advertising only because they inked a deal...
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Channel One News, your “Dead Body” station. The first week of Channel One News has got to have teachers very concerned. The graphic images being presented to pre-teens are appalling, even by Channel One’s standards. Dead bodies are everywhere and middle school students are getting the same gory feed that the high school students are receiving. On Thursday,...
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Channel One News was born with the help of money-grabbing politicians (example: Lamar Alexander) and it continues today by paying elected officials (example: the majority of Alabama state board of education members have received money from Channel One’s lobbyist Martin Christie). Channel One’s army of lobbyists had a general -Jack Abramoff. We at Obligation...
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If a tree falls in a forest with no one to hear it, does it make a sound? Channel One News started their broadcasts today, but who cares? The show has become irrelevant to students and teachers. The TV sets often don’t work or school officials have unplugged the cables from Channel One’s satellite...
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"Time to party." This still is from Stealing Harvard. It is just one of the many Channel One News-advertised movies that send extremely dangerous drug and alcohol messages to young people. Stealing Harvard was advertised to young people on Channel One News. The alcohol content in the movie is sickening. The movie normalizes teen...
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Channel One Struggling in Shifting Market CEO of TV newscast confronts loss of ads and aging technology. By Rhea R. Borja (Culpeper, VA) http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2005/07/27/43channel.h24.html In a Culpeper Middle School classroom one rainy morning this past spring, the morning news aired on a wall-mounted television set: a deadly helicopter crash in Iraq, prescription drug abuse...
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Basketball star LeBron James shows Channel One News students how to blow a Bubblicious bubble. Children saw numerous Bubblicious bubble gum commercials on C1N this spring. More are coming. Bubble gum is a fitting product for Channel One News to advertise. The company can’t give up its deep ties to junk food. Obligation expects bubble gum...
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Introduction of band. End of show. All done during school time. Channel One turned over the April 27 show to a rock band that needed publicity. It was a beautiful deal: the band would play for free on Channel One News and in exchange get their music before millions of kids that couldn’t turn the TV off....
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Posted on Wed, Jul. 06, 2005 High school schedule to change Excelsior Springs board OKs late start By PATRICE R. HOLDERBACH The Kansas City Star Alyssa Jewell and her fellow classmates at Excelsior Springs High School have the option of sleeping in a tad later once a week next year. That’s because teachers will...
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Click here to see the commercial shown to middle school kids. (April 27, 2005) Obligation has just received tapes of Channel One News for April and May. One commercial caught our attention instantly. It shows how desperate Channel One has gotten. They can’t turn away any company’s ad money – no matter how...
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A screen shot from Channel One’s official web site. July 2005 This week Channel One added this "news" article to their web site. Stephanie Smith is a Channel One News employee that has a reputation for mindless drivel. The junk food culture of Channel One News runs deep. Notice Ms. Smith’s choice of subjects....
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Is longtime Channel One hack Derrick Shore perusing the want ads? Only Errol Barnett, new-comer Melissa Knowles and Seth Doane remain as Channel One News anchors. Sofia Lidskog is gone after a year. Derrick Shore, who has been at Channel One for over five years was either given the boot or resigned. Obligation’s...
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Tony Hawk, on left, shamelessly using school time to make himself a ton of cash. Today, millions of students from 6th grade to high school seniors had to watch Tony Hawk promote himself, his video games, and his summer tour. Tony Hawk was given permission to co-host the entire show. If you notice the...
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Yesterday, Channel One’s parent company PRIMEDIA issued a press release announcing an extraordinary addition to Channel One’s web site. Here is the press release: Wow, a "resource page" that is created "to inform and educate young people." Channel One has created a resource that will "encourage them to take on a more active...
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Students see this mysterious website promoted on their classroom TV set. Commercials for Doritos have returned to Channel One News as of yesterday, May 17. Those who thought Channel One was phasing out their junk food ad campaigns will be disappointed. The current crop of ads end with a mysterious web site for children to write down...
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The TV shows that are advertised on Channel One News are often as offensive as their advertised movies. We have reported on the ugly Starlet TV show that has being heavily promoted on Channel One this school year. The Parents Television Council is a great organization that challenges the toxic popular culture that surrounds...
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Screen shots from Channel One News April 2005 The new CEO of Channel One News is Judy Harris. Obligation has tried to contact Ms. Harris since she accepted the Channel One job. She does not return emails or phone calls. We are beginning to see why she is reluctant to talk. She is taking Channel One News...
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The WB Network is a major advertiser on Channel One News. This is real bad news for parents. The Starlet is an American Idol rip-off where the winner gets a contract with Warner Brothers. Why are taxpayers subsidizing Warner Brother’s marketing? Ask your school board member. If your community’s schools are still showing Channel...
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