This story from 1997 is the first time we taped a Channel One News story that sent a wrong drug message to students. How demoralizing is it to be in middle school and hear this “reporter” tell you that 1/2 of all parents...
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This story from 1997 is the first time we taped a Channel One News story that sent a wrong drug message to students. How demoralizing is it to be in middle school and hear this “reporter” tell you that 1/2 of all parents...
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March 10, 2016 Note: Channel One News has a long history of advertising movies and TV shows that normalize and even glamorize teen drinking and teen drug use. Search for “drugs” and “teen drinking” on this site and you will be nauseated by what Channel One and its advertisers put in front of American teens...
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From Jim Metrock: I check in on Channel One News only occasionally now. The company is a shell of its former self. Fewer and fewer students see Channel One’s advertising, news, and fluffy filler content. American schools are so much better with the fall of Channel One News. Below is a February 25th Facebook post...
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From Jim Metrock: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Channel One wants schoolchildren, down to eight, to tackle the important issue of dirty dancing. HMH’s Channel One News maintains one website for all its student audiences, ranging from high school seniors to third grade students. Channel One recently ask students, “Do you think schools should cancel dances because...
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From Jim Metrock: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s miserable unit Channel One Network is helpless when schools trash their TV show. Consider Gulfport High School’s refusal to show Channel One News according to the “contract” they have with the company. On a regular day the school allows five minutes for school announcements and any remaining time...
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From Jim Metrock: It is getting very hard to find a school district that is showing Channel One News. Without the fear of Channel One taking away their TV network, schools no longer have a need to honor the terms of the old Channel One contract. [Show our daily, 12-minute TV show to student...
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From Jim Metrock: Three years ago, Channel One News was forced to send this letter to the relatively few schools that still had their TV equipment. It marked the end of the original Channel One News – the one that was extremely profitable back in the 90’s. In 2012 the few remaining executives at Channel One...
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From Jim Metrock: The Buffalo Academy of the Sacred Heart knows its students don’t want to watch Channel One News. That’s why the school shows the controversial TV show before school starts. This school like many others that still have Channel One have been breaching Channel One’s contract for years. https://obligation.org/2012-10-10-catholic-hs-refuses-to-honor-channel-one-news-contract
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Poor Channel One Once this controversial, kiddie marketing company had 8 million students forced to watch their program. Although Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Channel One’s owner, continues to state Channel One’s audience is “nearly 5 million,” the true number is probably closer to 2 – 3 million. Channel One used to update their ever-decreasing estimated...
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From Jim Metrock: This speech from 12 years ago is unfortunately still timely. Students are still being commercially exploited by old tired kiddie marketers like Channel One and new upstarts like SkoolLive. Parents and educators need to stay vigilant for those who only see schools as a source of easy ad revenue. Keynote Speech...
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