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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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Channel One News shocks 6th graders with drag queen on season opener.
From Jim Metrock: Channel One News had a major overhaul this year in an attempt to stop the relentless stream of schools dropping their TV show. They moved Kent Haehl out of the CEO’s position and put Ms. C. J. Kettler into his spot in order to create a more family-friendly company. They came...
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Down to three “reporters”
From Jim Metrock: In the late 90’s, Channel One News had eight reporters on their staff. This school year the controversial youth marketing company has only three reporters. As American schools continue to remove Channel One News from their daily schedules, and their student audience continues to shrink, there simply isn’t enough money...
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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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C.J. Kettler doesn’t want Channel One News commercials to be seen by parents.
From Jim Metrock: Kiddie marketers can be downright mean. Boo to Ms. C. J. Kettler. Ms. Kettler a well-traveled, self-described “media industry leader” is the current CEO of Channel One. It now looks like she is also a bit of a bully. This may come from the desperate position she finds...
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“Who are your sponsors?”
From Jim Metrock: Who are the advertisers on Channel One News? Parents want to know, educators and school administrators want to know.Taxpayers of course want to know what companies are using taxpayer-funded school time to sell to students. In short the public wants to know. The public has always wanted to know, but...
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It’s embarrassing to say you once worked at Channel One News.
From Jim Metrock: Nobody can fault former Channel One anchor Julian Dujarric from removing any mention of having worked for the youth marketing company Channel One from his Facebook page. I think once people leave Channel One News they begin to more fully understand Channel One’s commercial exploitation of schoolchildren and I think, or...
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C. J.’s Website Terms of Use
From Jim Metrock: When or if you try to read Channel One’s brand spankin’ new Website Terms of Use below, keep in mind who Channel One wrote the words for: teenagers, preteens, and elementary school-age children. That’s right, young people and very young people. Websites like Channelone.com create such documents to...
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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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