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Tom Hanson
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On January 26, 2001, upwards to 8 million schoolchildren were compelled to watch a commercial urging them to eat more Hostess Twinkies. Channel One has been bringing Hostess into America’s classrooms since the spring of 2000. Jim Metrock said, “When you think about it, Channel One is a mean company. The are mean with their smash-mouth...
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For over ten years, Channel One has used TV sets as bait to get schools to sign their contracts. Those days are gone. Television sets aren’t good bait anymore. With tougher curriculums and all-important “exit exams”, few schools have the luxury of wasting time with Channel One’s TV show. TV sets are so cheap...
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Channel One has had a sad and disturbing history of violating the privacy of children. To the credit of those in charge of Channel One currently, great strides have been made in improving this situation. Just a few years ago, Channel One was urging children to send in their pictures so they could be...
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If anything can be more controversial than Channel One News, it is the web site About.com. It looked like our letter to Channel One’s Paul Folkemer may have been effective when banner ads for About.com appeared to be removed from ChannelOne.com, but the ads are back. Children who click on the ever present About.com...
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Yes, there is a playlist of current rock and rap music for students at schools with Channel One. Channel One attitude appears to be – Why shouldn’t students be able to listen to their favorite songs during class time? If your child is still under contract to Channel One, here is what they had...
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Note: January 18, 2001 – At approximately 11:45 CDT, ChannelOne.com removed banner ads for About.com’s Teen Site from all its pages. Obligation has received no reply from Dr. Folkemer so there is no way to know if this is temporary or permanent. This is a positive move by ChannelOne.com. We do not know if...
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Over the last year, there has been a noticeable change in the advertisers on Channel One News. The news is encouraging to the parents, students and teachers who are trying to rid their schools of this show. Gone is Mars, Inc. the candy bar company. This was a huge advertiser on Channel One for...
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What in the world is the foul-mouth rapper Sisqo doing in your son or daughter’s middle school homeroom? Your child is being encouraged to buy his filthy CDs. He is shown on a Pepsi commercial that Channel One is forcing children to watch in school. No mention is made that his CD contain explicit...
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January 14, 2001 – Drugs, Sex, and Channel One News Drugs, Sex and Channel One News Check out the latest outrage from Channel One. A “funny” movie about two “pot-heads” who get so “stoned” that they don’t know what girl they had sex with, what strip bar they went to, what they did with a transvestite the...
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America’s schoolchildren are being inundated with ads for About.com. About.com is a company that owns several pornographic sites and will be merging with Channel One’s parent company, PRIMEDIA, Inc. at the end of February or the beginning of March. The porn connection will be dealt with at a later date on this web site....
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PRIMEDIA, Channel One’s parent company, had a problem. One of their top publications, Seventeen magazine, was in a deadly battle with new competitors like Teen People and Cosmo Girl. PRIMEDIA came up with a new magazine called Entertainmenteen that would be aimed at preteens. This way, as their press release said at the time,...
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This is the banner ad that Channel One runs on its Channelone.com web site. Channel One once dumped About.com as an advertiser because of the pornographic content on their site. In 2001, Channel One has an apparent different attitude. A young person might be mislead by About’s ad which gives the impression it is...
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This is the banner ad that Channel One runs on its Channelone.com web site. Channel One once dumped About.com as an advertiser because of the pornographic content on their site. In 2001, Channel One has an apparent different attitude. A young person might be mislead by About’s ad which gives the impression it is...
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April 1, 2001 – Blast From the Recent Past – 1999 U.S. Senate Hearing On Channel One Ralph Nader, Pat Ellis, Jim Metrock, and Phyllis Schlafly at the May 20, 1999 U.S. Senate hearing on Channel One. Mr. Nader and Mrs. Schlafly testified against Channel One at the hearing and Mrs. Ellis and...
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Kick Hollywood Out of Your School – Kick Channel One Out – Enough is Enough The Mandatory Hollywood Curriculum: Channel One "Hollywood has a secret marketing tool. They call it Channel One News. If a school still has Channel One, that school is giving movie studio executives time each week with the children to...
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Dude, Where’s My Car? (PG13 Drug content, profanity, sexual content) 20th Century Fox recently made the decision to move up their distribution of their “pothead” movie “Dude, Where’s My Car?” from spring 2001 to December 15. They had to act quickly to market this drug movie to teens and...
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Warning – Channel One routinelyadvertises very offensive movies to schoolchildren. In order to explain what Channel One is doing, we have to relate offensive content to the public. This page contains very offensive material. Please be warned. If you are offended by what Channel One is doing, please email Dr. Paul Folkemer, Channel One VP, who gives final approval...
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Channel One – The Most Controversial Show On Television -2000 December 18, 2000 – Channel One Pushes Drug Movie on Children December 11, 2000 – Time to Zap Channel One for Pushing Cobaltcard on Teens December 10, 2000 – Some of Channel One’s Advertisers – Fall 2000 December 8, 2000 – Deceptive Advertising On...
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Earlier this year, the ZapMe! Corp. tried to hawk Cobaltcards to students and got zapped by the public. Now Channel One is advertising these cards during classtime. They hoped no one would catch them. Sorry, Channel One, you are busted. What, you say, is a Cobaltcard? It is a "buying card" that attempts to...
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"WIN A $25 MUSIC GIFT CERTIFICATE! Everyone’s familiar with the song ‘Jingle Bells’. It’s traditional. It’s classic. But ChannelOne.com wants to liven things up a bit by giving YOU the opportunity to WRITE YOUR OWN NEW LYRICS to the tune of this very old song! ChannelOne.com will choose the song with the best lyrics...
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How important is getting news to children for the Channel One Network? Well, if you have read this web site for the pass few years, you know already that getting news to children is not a high priority for our marketing friends at Channel One. Jim Ritts is the head of this "teen news...
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