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Moving from CNN to Channel One News. You don’t see that often.

October 26, 2013
Moving from CNN to Channel One News. You don’t see that often.

From Jim Metrock: The newest member of Channel One’s team of “reporters” is Tom Hanson. His background looks rock solid. His credentials are easily the most impressive of Channel One’s current crew. However Mr. Hanson is different than other Channel One on-air personalities. He appears to be doing his career in reverse. It’s too...
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Keith Kocinski

September 21, 2013
Keith Kocinski

From Jim Metrock: Channel One News has a new on-air personality. He is Keith Kocinski.  With his work background and education it is surprising he settled for being a member of Channel One’s “News Team.” But alas, it’s a tough job market out there.   Mr. Kocinski probably hasn’t taken the time to learn...
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Yuck. Channel One News advertising PG13 movies to preteens.

August 23, 2013
Yuck. Channel One News advertising PG13 movies to preteens.

From Jim Metrock: Those lovable youth marketers at Channel One are back at it. It’s just August and they are advertising age-inappropriate movies to children. This is standard fare for Channel One. They have done it every year since 1996 when I started to research and report on the company. There was some hope...
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There is no Channel One Advisory Board.

August 4, 2013
There is no Channel One Advisory Board.

 There hasn’t been one for six years, even though Channel One said there was.     From Jim Metrock: Since April 2006, Channel One has told the public they had in place an all-teacher Advisory Board helping the company better serve American schools. The ten members were all outstanding teachers from around the country....
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Correction: Kent Haehl

July 15, 2013
Correction: Kent Haehl

From Jim Metrock:   On June 15, 2013, in an article about Channel One’s new CEO Ms. C.J. Kettler’s less than stellar business background, I mentioned that  I thought Kent Haehl’s new position at the company – simply listed as “CRO” on Haehl’s Linkedin public profile – stood for Chief Risk Officer. That was...
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“Care to find out which brand of condoms your friends prefer?”

July 9, 2013
“Care to find out which brand of condoms your friends prefer?”

July 8, 2013 – Channelone.com “breaking news” article. From Jim Metrock: For months Channel One News would post AP news stories without attribution. They made other people’s content appear to be their own. It was dumb for them to do that because they knew they would caught. Above is an AP story on Channelone.com today...
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Complete, uncensored Channel One News for April 19, 2013

May 13, 2013
Complete, uncensored Channel One News for April 19, 2013

  Enough violence, Channel One. Stop being reckless with your young, captive audience.      
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Two new wannabe journalists at Channel One News.

January 4, 2013
Two new wannabe journalists at Channel One News.

  Channel One says of Kuang: “Jason graduated from SUNY Purchase with a BA in Journalism, and then went out into the world to pursue his journalism career, which started when he was an intern at Channel One. He is now a full-fledged staff member working on a little bit of everything.”  Going to...
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Can’t even give Channel One News InterActiv away.

October 5, 2012
Can’t even give Channel One News InterActiv away.

The unholy alliance of Promethean white boards with the extremely controversial Channel One News program appears to not be going well.  (Who could have seen that coming?!) Now schools are being offered the first year free.  Of course a company doesn’t make such an offer if customers are already buying their product. Now Promethean...
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Channel One News teaches: 1. Crime pays. 2. Never take a knife to a gun fight.

September 25, 2012
Channel One News teaches: 1. Crime pays. 2. Never take a knife to a gun fight.

Channel One’s content is becoming darker and darker. Channelone.com is exposing children of all ages to Channel One’s wide range of controversial advertisers. Promethean’s partnership with Channel One is proving to be an unmitigated disaster. Promethean has to take responsibility for exposing 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders to the toxic Channel One News brand....
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