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 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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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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Enough violence, Channel One. Stop being reckless with your young, captive audience.
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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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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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Clearasil remains one of the few advertisers left on the controversial, in-classroom Channel One TV show.
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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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Clicking on the “Mortal Instruments Sweeps!” ad takes teens, preteens, and elementary school-age children to this site: http://video.channelone.com/the-mortal-instruments-sweepstakes/ The contest is sponsored by Alloy Media and Marketing, Channel One’s parent company.
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From Jim Metrock: April 26, 2013 – Ah, the embarrassment was too much for Channel One and its on-air personalities. (I admit it was disquieting even to me to see Channel One reporters begging advertisers to help their company.) YouTube has taken down our “Sizzle/Frizzle” video because Channel One claims a copyright infringement. There...
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