Parents Object To Commercials In School JANUARY 8, 2003 BY MATTHEW WEIGELT, Times-Union Staff Writer NORTH MANCHESTER –The commercials shown on Channel One, a current-events news program geared to a middle school-age audience, disturbed several parents who took issue Tuesday with its addition into the junior high school. Manchester Community Schools School Board tabled...
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Channel One claims to have a captive audience of 8 million students. Advertisers like the fact that young people are compelled to watch their ads so the advertisers pay over $200,000 for ONE 30-second ad. But sometimes a company wants to do more than just run a regular commercial on Channel One News. If you have more money,...
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This is an article by a student documenting the removal of Channel One News from Marian H.S. in Omaha, Nebraska. This is a Catholic school. There is no date on the article but appears to be around March, 2002. The situation at this high school is typical of many other schools under contract to...
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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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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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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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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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