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C1N and AOL Team Up to Dump Toxic Waste on Teens

May 17, 2000

Channel One is a sponsor and content provider for AOL’s Teen web site. On this site, children are exposed to age-inappropriate content such as movie reviews by E! Entertainment. Music acts that are known for their sexually-explicit lyrics are commonly featured on this site. Chat rooms and message boards are here for children to use. Channel One’s presence on...
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Vestavia Hills High School Dumps Channel One After Nine Years

May 17, 2000
Vestavia Hills High School Dumps Channel One After Nine Years

Channel One Continues to Implode in Alabama The Birmingham News reported today that Vestavia Hills High School has ended their contract with Channel One. A poll taken by the school librarian showed that an overwhelming majority of teachers, who were under contract to show the program, were in fact not showing it to students. 91% of teachers said they...
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Advertisers Losing Interest In Channel One?

May 17, 2000

Primedia’s president Tom Rogers recently mentioned that Channel One is losing advertiser support. Evidently three big advertisers have seriously lowered their spending on this controversial TV show or they might have totally withdrawn from the show. Obligation urges all companies that are advertising on Channel One and channelone.com to remove their financial support. There are other more respectable ways to get...
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Jeff Ballabon Quote

April 15, 2000

Channel One’s Jeff Ballabon quoted in the Harrisburg, PA Patriot-News, referring to the efforts of scholars and conservative and liberal groups opposing Channel One: “It’s hard to express how unconcerned we are that this is going to impact us negatively.”
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NYU Honors Obligation and Commercial Alert

April 13, 2000

NYU Honors Obligation and Commercial Alert for Work Against Commercialism in Schools   Arianna Huffington presented Gary Ruskin of Commercial Alert and Pat Ellis and Jim Metrock of Obligation with an award to honor their efforts against companies like ChannelOne and ZapMe!. Ralph Nader was also honored and he also spoke against Channel One’s commercial exploitation of schoolchildren.
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Alabama Pediatricians Pass Resolution Opposing Commercials in Classroom

March 31, 2000
Alabama Pediatricians Pass Resolution Opposing Commercials in Classroom

No big surprise here – pediatricians don’t like anyone forcing children to watch commercials for candy bars, soft drinks and violent movies. Alabama pediatricians deserve a lot of credit for standing up for the poorest children in Alabama who are injured the most by Channel One’s advertising assault. Here is part of the resolution: “Be it Resolved, The...
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Today’s Channel One Poll on Channelone.com

March 11, 2000

DO YOU BUCKLE UP? Always Usually When I think of it No way   This is a typical Channel One poll. Everything with Channel One is value-neutral. The idea that they have “No Way” as a cool-sounding answer is irresponsible. There is only one good answer for teens (and adults). Why even ask this...
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“Meth in America”

March 6, 2000

Channel One Shocks Teachers and Parents With Controversial “Meth in America” Series From Jim Metrock: I have just seen the three-part series entitled “Meth in America” that appeared on Channel One February 9,10, and 11. The report was actually done by MTV and a MTV “reporter” (who use to be a Channel One “reporter”)...
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The Ghost of Chris Whittle Returns

March 1, 2000
The Ghost of Chris Whittle Returns

WIDTH=”254″ HEIGHT=”190″ ALIGN=”LEFT” BORDER=”0″ NATURALSIZEFLAG=”0″> SIZE=”+1″ FACE=”Arial”>March 1, 2000 – Channel One Returns to Whittle Days in Stunning Announcement Channel One has been without a permanent president for over six months. Today they announced the hiring of Jim Ritts as Channel One’s new president. There is nothing “new” about Ritts. He was one of the co-founders of Channel...
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CBS Early Show

February 17, 2000

It appears that ABC News has ended their "special relationship" with the controversial Channel One TV show. Gone are any signs of ABC News on the dismal channelone.com site. Gone are the references to the ABC/Channel One partnership. Some programming and news reports may still be seen on Channel One but it appears that...
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Public Should Be Mad At MADD For Teaming With Channel One

February 12, 2000

Mothers Against Drunk Driving have steered their organization into the national controversy over Channel One. They have agreed to enter into a partnership with Channel One in order to get more children to hear their important message. The fact that Channel One is commercially exploiting schoolchildren doesn’t seem to affect the MADD central office....
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The Ugliest Joke Yet On Children

February 4, 2000

If you can imagine the Ku Klux Klan giving seminars on racial tolerance, then you’ll have no problem accepting Channel One teaching media literacy to the schoolchildren who are forced to watch their TV show and commercials under force of contract. The term “media literacy” is relatively new. Roughly it attempts to teach children and adults how to “read” media...
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Valley Grove Superintendent and Board Sell Out Kids

January 26, 2000

  The Valley Grove School Board lead by their superintendent gave Channel One a big vote of approval. Board president Robert Lewis mocked the petition with 287 names opposing Channel One. He said out of 6,000 residents that was not impressive. Mr. Lewis was the man who brought Channel One into the school system in the early nineties....
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Over 280 Valley Grove, PA Citizens Sign Petition To Oust Channel One

January 20, 2000

  In the western Pennsylvania town of Valley Grove, citizens have expressed their concern about the controversial Channel One TV show. At a board meeting on Monday, January 17, over 280 names and addresses of citizens were presented to the school board urging the removal of Channel One. The Valley Grove school board is apparently a very pro-Channel One...
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Channel One Sending Out Two Signals

January 19, 2000

Dr. Paul Folkemer, VP of Education for Channel One, told the Valley Grove, PA school board this week that Channel One is now sending out two signals. One signal is for children under 13 and the other for 13 and older. The only difference he mentioned concerned PG13 movies. It seems that Dr. Folkemer, the person who approves all...
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News About Channel One – June -Dec. 1999

December 31, 1999
News About Channel One – June -Dec. 1999

  News About Channel One – First Half of 1999 (Second Half of 1999)   Channel One – Peddlers of Despair May 21, 1999 – Channel One Restarts Intrusive Web Ads U.S. Senate Hearing on Channel One WIDTH=”450″ BORDER=”1″ CELLSPACING=”2″ CELLPADDING=”0″> ALIGN=”BOTTOM” BORDER=”0″ NATURALSIZEFLAG=”3″> Ralph Nader, Pat Ellis, Jim Metrockand Phyllis Schafly at the May...
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New York Times Article on Channel One

December 11, 1999

A “must” if you are fighting Channel One in your school district. Get it at your local library. The article is entitled “Channel One’s Mixed Grade in Schools” by Constance Hays – Sunday, December 5, 1999. The article is on the front page of the business section. It runs for over 3,300 words. Channel One is in deep trouble...
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Two Shocking New Ads on Channel One

December 9, 1999

The Channel One executives approved a new provocative ad for schoolchildren. Many ads on Channel One are sexually provocative. There is nothing new there, but the latest Schick female razor commercial sends a very powerful immoral message to children. The commercial starts off showing a older girl saying, “When you live with guys, you learn all kinds of...
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First Channel One Ad for a Recording Artist

December 8, 1999
First Channel One Ad for a Recording Artist

  border=”0″ width=”131″ height=”433″ naturalsizeflag=”3″> SIZE=”-1″ FACE=”Arial”>< Jessica Simpson’s Commercial for her debut CD was mandatory viewing by children in schools with Channel One. Times must be hard at Channel One’s Madison Avenue headquarters. For the first time, to our knowledge, Channel One has run a formal commercial for a recording artist. The singer is Jessica Simpson....
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Ballabon and Folkemer Approve Second James Bond Ad for Kids

December 8, 1999
Ballabon and Folkemer Approve Second James Bond Ad for Kids

  BORDER=”0″ ALT=”This gun’s for you.” WIDTH=”200″ HEIGHT=”311″ NATURALSIZEFLAG=”3″>Shameless Channel One keeps pounding away at our children. We have now seen the second ad (November 19, 1999) for the violent and sexually-charged James Bond movie. This time Channel One ran a commercial that tells the children that critics love this violent movie and that they (the children) need...
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Who Is Jeff Ballabon?

December 4, 1999

  Mr. Ballabon recently flew from New York to Alabama to meet with conservative legislators and other influential people in an attempt to win friends for Channel One. Mr. Ballabon failed to tell the Alabama citizens he meet with that the product he was pushing was outlawed in public schools in his home state of New York. He must...
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Ask Dr. Folkemer

November 28, 1999

Channel One – Peddlers of Despair   Ask Dr. Folkemer   Channel One, the marketing company with headquarters on Madison Avenue (by the way, their product called Channel One News is outlawed in all public schools in their own home state of New York) and studio in Hollywood USA has come up with another effort to look...
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