http://www.thetranscript.com/Stories/0,1413,103%257E9043%257E2569420,00.html A former indentured student writes about her Channel One News experiences in the North Adams Transcript (MA). “There are also better ways to encourage teenagers to take an interest in the world and its news than plugging them into the commercial laden news magazine called Channel One.” Thanks to Ken McNatt.
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“Recalling My Channel One Days”
One Million Children Disappear… and that’s a good thing.
We have reported about Channel One’s unethical use of school time to advertise the movie “Finding Gracie.” Channel One violated its own “news standards” by merging advertising into the news portion of the show. “Finding Gracie” is not a typical movie. It is a gimmick by another one of Channel One’s advertisers – Gatorade. Gatorade is helping to...
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St. Mary High School, O’Neill, Nebraska
You wouldn’t think ANY Catholic school would have a contract with Channel One News. A church-run school that tolerates the advertising of drug and alcohol movies and sexually charged movies and TV shows to students is a church-run school that has many more problems than Channel One. (Note: Channel One continues to advertise PG-13 movies to middle schoolchildren.)...
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Read The Book? Or Watch The Movie?
Stephanie Smith is a Channel One News employee. She wrote this article that “winks” at cheating on a book report. This Channel One writer knows she is writing for children. She makes it clear that she knows many would think of watching the movie version as opposed to reading an assigned book. Excuse us, Stephanie, you are wrong. Most...
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Kranks
Kent Haehl is Channel One’s sales manager. His job is to find and sign new advertisers. He knows the people at Sony Pictures very well. Haehl agreed to promote Sony’s drug/alcohol drenched "Loser" movie in 2000, the raunchy animated 2002 movie "Eight Crazy Nights" and this year’s sex and drug comedy "50 First Dates."...
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Another Junk Food On Channel One
Channel One News has a long history of advertising junk food to students and their newest ad campaign was unveiled several weeks ago. Kellogg’s Pop Tarts are now a major advertiser on Channel One’s in-school TV show. Last school year, Channel One heavily advertised Kellogg’s new product called SnakStix. Obligation’s Jim Metrock said, "Channel...
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Thursday’s News On Wednesday
From Jim Metrock: Ken McNatt just sent me and email telling me Channel One had posted the script of their Thursday show on their web site. I received the email at 10:40 PM CST tonight Wednesday, November 17. The script of the completed show is below. If you are wondering how a news organization...
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We’re All Bozos On The Bus
Well, they’re back on the bus. Those lovely bozos from Channel One are back on the road trying to keep the remaining schools they have from canceling their contracts. Relatively poor states like Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Louisiana have a disproportionate number of public schools that still rent TV equipment...
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Did This Man Steal Your Tax Money?
Please visit the National Campaign Against Channel One for more information. The 2004-05 school year for Channel One News marks an aggressive and disturbing new trend toward what we will call "Total Commercialism." Channel One is pushing the envelope every way they can to get more and more revenue-generating commercial messages into the 12-13...
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Replay
Video from Channel One News 2/25/04 From Jim Metrock: Obligation has been asked to provide this video on the web site. Earlier this year, Channel One News shocked teachers and students with two extended reports about homosexual/ lesbian marriage. These February shows presented middle school students with images from seven gay weddings. One can...
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Guest Host Plugs Questionable Show
From Jim Metrock: On Friday, November 5, schoolchildren forced to watch Channel One News saw their second “special” news anchor for the week. Jeremy Sumpter co-hosted the entire Channel One broadcast for middle and high school students. Sumpter is a TV actor for a struggling CBS show called Clubhouse. (On Monday, UPN paid to have an actress from their...
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Got Revenue?
Primedia is the parent company of Channel One. Today they released their 2004 third quarter earnings report. Below is the part that relates to Channel One News: "Education Segment revenues were $13.2 million in the third quarter 2004, flat when compared to third quarter 2003. Advertising revenues, which are all from Channel One, were...
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Veronica Mars
" These days, Veronica deals with her high school troubles during the day and helps her dad run a private detective agency at night. We’re not talking The Secret of the Old Clock. Seventeen-year-old Veronica is tracking down adulterers at sleazy motels and cops getting "favors" from exotic dancers. It’s a little much to...
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Not Too Smart
Warner Brothers movie studio once again needs the help of Channel One News. There is a new movie coming out called “The Polar Express.” It is based on the best-selling children’s book. WB, a major advertiser on Channel One has a huge amount of money involved in the movie. It is imperative that children see this movie in...
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Zapzyt
This is bad. Somebody ought to be fired. Waltman Pharmaceuticals makes an acne medicine called Zapzyt Acne Treatment Gel. They got caught trying to advertise the product on children’s television programs earlier this year. On July 29, the Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus announced that Waltman agreed to stop advertising during...
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Audience
Reality sinks in at Channel One News. From Jim Metrock in Bryant Park in New York City: Beautiful day in Bryant Park (right behind the New York Public Library). It is a beautiful little park that has a special feature I really like – free, high-speed, wireless Internet service. I have been in the Big Apple since Sunday and this...
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Herbal Essence
Everybody knows the outrageous TV ads for Clairol’s Herbal Essence shampoo. Recently, the company has toned down the “orgasmic/organic” angle and simply show images of women very happy using Herbal Essence. In September, Herbal Essence made its debut on Channel One News (both the high school feed and the middle school feed). The new ads don’t have the overt...
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Ominous News
Primedia is Channel One’s parent company. They have four divisions. One division is called Education and Training. This division has only three companies: Workplace Learning, Films for Humanities, and Channel One News. Primedia has repeatedly said this division is not doing well. These three companies remain "challenged" as company executives have told analysts in...
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No Programming VP, No Education VP
This is the third year that Channel One News has refused to hire a Education Vice President to replace Dr. Paul Folkermer who walked out in 2001. Education has never been a mission of Channel One News. They hired Folkermer, a NJ middle school principal who had allowed his school to be used for...
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Anchors Away
Eight, Seven, Six, Five… Four Will Derrick Shore be the last person remaining at Channel One News? In a little over a year’s time, Channel One News has cut back from eight news anchors to four. This drastic cut is obviously due to the financial troubles that plague the company. The remaining anchors are Derrick Shore, Seth...
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Channel One Advertiser Offers Graphic Sexual and Drug/Alcohol Images for Teen Cell Phones
The official web site for Channel One News has a new, shocking advertiser. The name of the advertiser is Ringingphone.com. This company is paying Channel One News so they can have access to the children that visit channelone.com. (The in-school TV show, Channel One News, repeatedly urges students to visit Channel One’s site.) On...
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Good Riddance to Channel One’s Message Board
This screen shot is from ChannelOne.com on August 17. Obligation’s reporting on Channel One’s vulgar message boards has apparently led to their shut-down. These Channel One News "forums" have had graphic sexual content, instructions on how children can mutilate themselves, and drug discussions. Channel One even hosted a discussion among kids about whether...
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