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Channel One News had many on-air personalities who acted goofy. Tom Hanson is shown...
September 2001 Issue, The Reveille, Brownsburg High School, Brownsburg, Indiana Passing Extended; Loss of Channel 1 At the start of the school year many students and teachers’ wishes were granted. For many years students had been forced to watch Channel One, a news show based on world news, high schools, and students. This year...
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As I am watching my Auburn Tigers play Penn State, I am also typing this article on my Mac PowerBook laptop. When I am finished writing, I will press a key and it will be sent to Obligation’s web site for viewing across the country. I installed an inexpensive, wireless connection to the Internet...
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From Jim Metrock: I have heard it too often from the Channel One hacks – "You can’t get rid of Channel One at your school because we are the only source of news for many of the students." I have learned to control my gag reflex when I hear that, but I still shake...
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Although it was a Texas advertising executive, Ed Winter, who created Channel One back in 1988, he was working for Chris Whittle at the time in Knoxville, Tennessee. In the early 90’s, Whittle’s Channel One saturated Tennessee schools. Few states have a higher percentage of schoolchildren under contract to Channel One. That is why...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One’s president Jim Ritts came to the Texas school board meeting himself. It was that important. A resolution urging Texas school districts to remove Channel One had been introduced in September. Channel One hastily hired the law firm of Akin Gump to represent them. But Ritts knew the stakes were too high to leave...
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Editorial – November 13, 2002 UNPLUG IT End Channel One hawking to kids in Texas classrooms The State Board of Education is scheduled to vote this week on a resolution encouraging all local Texas local school districts to remove Channel One from the public schools. The resolution should be approved, and then heeded by school districts. Channel...
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On October 28, Channel One executives must have chuckled to themselves as they broadcast an Old Spice commercial that contained a not-too-subtle sexual reference. Children see a young man wheeling down a hallway delivering mail to various offices. He comes to a door marked “Madison Saunders, Executive V.P.”. He knows this executive is a beautiful woman. He then...
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More mayhem on Channel One. Children witness a friend shooting his friend in the head (or possibly the chest – film ends with gun flash) while they sit smoking marijuana. The intended message from the ONDCP (Office for National Drug Control Policy) is “you can’t think straight when you smoke pot.” No one can argue with that obvious...
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Singer wants to find a person in the audience who will make him "fall in love" He chooses… This man?! Is he making a homosexual pass at me? The camera lingers on the uncomfortable man. Naw, the students see the singer wants the Doritos not the guy. Yuk, Yuk, Channel One. More junk food...
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Parents have no idea that horror films being shown to their child on Channel One News. he Federal government has a whole new batch of ” The Federal government has a whole new batch of “anti-drug” public service announcements that aim to scare children from drugs. Channel One balances these PSAs with commercials for movies...
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If children weren’t shaken already by the recent sniper story from Maryland, D.C., and Virginia, they would be by Channel One News coverage of the story. Channel One has historically been very insensitive to their special captive audience and no more so than with the sniper story. See for yourself. A sample of Channel...
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Notice to parents at the first of this school year: “CHANGES IN THE SCHOOL DAY – This year our school day will begin at 7:55 a.m. and end at 3:13 p.m. While it may be difficult to get used to beginning a little earlier, our staff felt that we needed to reintroduce the concept of watching the Channel One...
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From Jim Metrock: The Federal government runs a lot of public service announcements (PSAs) on Channel One News. These PSAs keep Channel One’s viable. Many of these PSAs send the wrong message about drugs. Some tell young people that they can hang around drug users as long as they themselves don’t do drugs. That is a dangerous message...
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From Jim Metrock: When I was told that Stealing Harvard was advertised on Channel One, I had doubts. It was too filthy and didn’t Channel One understand they are in big trouble pushing sleaze on Texas schoolchildren? I keep on overestimating the intelligence and responsibility of Channel One executives. Last night I received tapes of Channel One from...
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Wednesday, October 9, 2002 City High students raise concerns about Channel One By Mike McWilliams Iowa City Press-Citizen Four City High students challenged the Iowa City School Board on Tuesday to reconsider its contract with Channel One, saying it is more of a detriment than a benefit to its viewers. The 12-minute satellite news...
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They just can’t give it up. Channel One should be cleaning up its act before the super critical November 15 Texas State Board of Education vote, but they can’t turn away from their Hollywood money train. DreamWorks needed kids to see its latest movie The Tuxedo and Channel One took their money and ran their movie commercial on...
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Channel One just finished a two-part series on children getting fatter and getting Type II diabetes. Yesterday’s show had no regular commercials, just public service announcements. That makes the show a perfect one to send to school boards as an example of Channel One’s programming. It is a lie of course, but Channel One is struggling to survive...
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On October 18, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, hundreds of media literacy experts will gather to kick-off the creation of the Action Coalition for Media Education (ACME). Obligation is one of the early supporters of this organization. This weekend the keynote address will be given by Robert McChesney author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy. We...
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Costs of Channel One By David Bloom The Baytown Sun Published September 15, 2002 Channel One trade ad in Advertising Age: “We have the UNDIVIDED ATTENTION of millions of teenagers for 12 minutes a day. 8.1 million teenagers in classrooms nationwide … And since they’re not channel surfing, talking on the phone or...
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Every Thursday, unknown to virtually all parents, Channel One News has their “All-Request Thursday”. This is the day that students get to pick the music that Channel One News plays on the air. On the other days of the week Channel One’s staff gets to pick out their favorite rock and rap artists to put on the show....
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Yet another junk food is being pushed on schoolchildren by Channel One. The latest addition is called Snak Stix from Kellogg’s. Brandweek magazine reported on this new sugary product in May of this year: “Kellogg Pops Up Its Tarts NEW YORK — Kellogg next month will extend its Pop-Tarts brand with a new Snak-Stix version, backed...
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From Jim Metrock: The Texas State Board of Education is considering passing a resolution that would urge local school boards to remove Channel One from their schools. Testimony was heard on September 13 but a Channel One-hired lobbyist told the Board that they had insufficient time to prepare a defense. The Board voted to table the vote until...
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