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Nothing darling about this waste of taxpayer money.

May 26, 2013
Nothing darling about this waste of taxpayer money.

From Jim Metrock: Channel One News regularly plays music from rock and rap bands during their classroom TV show. They shouldn’t. Helping to interest schoolchildren in new rock, pop and rap artists is not the stated purpose of Channel One News.  Channel One got into schools (disproportionately into schools in lower-income communities) by promising...
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Complete, uncensored Channel One News for April 16, 2013

May 23, 2013
Complete, uncensored Channel One News for April 16, 2013

A 2-minute long commercial?! Channel One violates contract again.
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C. J. Kettler officially announced as new Channel One CEO

May 22, 2013
C. J. Kettler officially announced as new Channel One CEO

Channel One’s press release:   Channel One News Appoints CJ Kettler as Chief Executive Officer Kettler to Spearhead Transformative Initiatives for Channel One News NEW YORK, May 20, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Channel One, LLC, the educational digital content provider and producer of Channel One News, the award-winning news program for young people, today...
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From the archives: Collapsing: Channel One News loses another 500,000 student viewers. (2012)

May 21, 2013
From the archives:  Collapsing: Channel One News loses another 500,000 student viewers. (2012)

From Jim Metrock:  Summer is the time for schools to dump Channel One. During the summer months, when fewer students are in the building, it is so much easier to remove Channel One’s antiquated “technology” (read: old, analog TV sets) from classrooms .   After last summer Channel One quietly posted on their website that their...
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Jessica Kumari finally leaves Channel One News

May 20, 2013
Jessica Kumari finally leaves Channel One News

From August 2011…     From Jim Metrock: Longtime Channel One on-air personality Jessica Kumari has called it quits. Obligation was surprised in August 2011 when Ms. Kumari came back for yet another year. When she came back for a sixth year in 2012, I thought she must have given up on wanting a...
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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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Complete, uncensored Channel One News for March 15, 2013

May 7, 2013
Complete, uncensored Channel One News for March 15, 2013

  Guns are drawn during Channel One’s weekly Week in Rap segment. Teachers have no idea what images Channel One will thrust on schoolchildren.          
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Who is C.J. Kettler? and why should parents care?

May 4, 2013
Who is C.J. Kettler? and why should parents care?

  From Jim Metrock: There was no press release announcing her hiring. All previous CEOs benefited from a substantial public relations effort when hired. Ms. Kettler got nothing. Strange. It might have been Ms. Kettler who insisted on no publicity.  I could understand that. Odd that Obligation, Inc. was the entity that told the...
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Channel One News for March 14, 2013

May 3, 2013
Channel One News for March 14, 2013

Clearasil remains one of the few advertisers left on the controversial, in-classroom Channel One TV show.      
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Channel One News uncensored April 24, 2013

May 1, 2013
Channel One News uncensored April 24, 2013

    From Jim Metrock: I have apologized to Channel One three times since 1996 when I began researching and reporting on the youth marketing company. All of my apologies were about rather inconsequential things, but when I am wrong I want to correct the record as quickly as possible. I recently blamed Channel...
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