From Jim Metrock: This post is from Channel One’s Facebook page. I viewed their FB page today (November 21,2014) and worked my way back in time. I wanted to see the highest number of responses any one post received. Channel One is still claiming “nearly 5 million” in its audience. So one would think...
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From Jim Metrock: Ms. Monica Burns quit classroom teaching and is now a saleswoman. She is writing articles for Channel One’s website. Ms. Burns is praising Channel One and plugging the controversial Common Core national standards whenever she can. It makes sense that she is gushing about how wonderful Channel One is. After all,...
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From Jim Metrock: On September 29, 2014, and on several other dates, Channel One News ran a commercial for their parent company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. HMH publishes books aimed at the youth market. This ad is for a book called How to Catch a Bogle. The commercial is cheaply made. It must have...
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Should schools be responsible for introducing news to children? http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2014/09/16/39365/should-schools-be-responsible-for-introducing-news/#comments
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Houghton Mifflin’s Channel One News intentionally shows students executioner holding knife before beheading. Why show any pictures of this brutal act of terrorism? Is Houghton Mifflin CEO Linda Zecher pushing Channel One to get edgier with kids? From Jim Metrock: The good news is Channel One News did not use the word “beheading” in...
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From Jim Metrock: Kocinski, Hanson, Evans, and Rulli Sounds like a law firm. Unfortunately, these young people didn’t choose the law for a career. They chose instead to earn a paycheck by commercially exploiting schoolchildren. These are the remaining reporters for Houghton Mifflin’s Channel One News. Shelby Holliday as I reported before left Channel...
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HMH quarterly earnings conference call: Progress made coming out of bankruptcy. Channel One News not mentioned by HMH CEO Linda Zecher. Channel One and other acquisitions will have “no impact” on company in short term. Total cash paid out for three companies, including Channel One: $9.5 million. (Channel One was sold for $240...
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From Jim Metrock: It’s Friday, August 8, 2014 and Channel One News hasn’t shown up for class. It is not surprising. For the last several years, Channel One has started the program later at the beginning of school, and have ended their broadcast season earlier in an attempt to cut expenses. Many schools...
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From Jim Metrock: In the “good old days” Channel One News could make money by selling ads on its in-classroom TV show. Channel One loaned schools the TV sets to watch and could threaten to remove them if students didn’t watch the show and its commercials. That threat was the main reason schools allowed Channel One...
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