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Hollywood dominates Channel One News. Yet another movie promoted to students.

October 9, 2012
Hollywood dominates Channel One News. Yet another movie promoted to students.

Hollywood movie studios love Channel One News. They are constantly using Channel One to promote their latest movies to a captive audience of young people. So far this 2012-13 school year, Channel One has been advertising a new movie every week. Although this practice annoys principals and teachers, it makes Channel One News a...
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Find the movie ad on Channel One’s front page.

September 19, 2012
Find the movie ad on Channel One’s front page.


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With Channel One News the odds are always in favor of advertisers, not students.

August 17, 2012
With Channel One News the odds are always in favor of advertisers, not students.

  Above: Front page of the official website of Channel One News. Can you tell what these kiddie marketers think is the big news story of the day? It’s the midnight release!! Ads for Hunger Games DVDs and Blu-ray discs have been plastered over the entire website all week. Below: Guess who welcomed students...
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Letter to the editor – Sept. 5, 2011 – Still valid.

May 18, 2012

Schools should suspend Channel 1 until studied Birmingham News In more than 300 Alabama secondary schools, students will close their books and watch commercials for upcoming movies and video games. Students will also enjoy video clips from rock bands selling their latest music. This madness is happening because schools have signed a contract with...
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No disclosure

May 3, 2012
No disclosure

           
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Guess what movie Channel One advertised all last week in public schools?

November 19, 2011
Guess what movie Channel One advertised all last week in public schools?

The amount of school time and tax money lost promoting this movie is a tragedy. Channel One has removed all commercials shown on the classroom TV show Channel One News from its web rebroadcast. This prevents parents from seeing what is being advertised to their students. So the Twilight commercials that ran in middle...
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“The Academy Award For Most Moronic Pretend News Show Goes To… Channel One!”

March 25, 2002
“The Academy Award For Most Moronic Pretend News Show Goes To… Channel One!”

The Oscars returned to Hollywood last night for the first time since 1960. Lucky for school kids, Channel One’s studio is in Hollywood so it was easy for them to cover this important current event. Below is part of today’s transcript. (KRYSTAL ON CAM) IT WAS AN EXCITING NIGHT IN HOLLYWOOD BECAUSE...
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