Spring house cleaning continues at marketing company Channel One. A look back at the man who loved to connect advertisers with children. In the early 2000’s when he was Channel One’s VP of Sales Kent Haehl knew that there was an obesity crisis developing among young people, but he signed up junk food...
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Jim Metrock: In 16 years of researching and reporting on Channel One News, I have never seen such a video. Channel One’s “reporters” are virtually begging any potential advertiser to help pay their salaries. These young people consider themselves young journalists, but as I always try to remind people, they are employees of...
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6th grade students, just one year out of elementary school, see the same violent images on Channel One News as high school seniors see. Channel One’s “one-size-fits-all” approach to news stories shows their insensitivity to their preteen audience. Showing the same news stories to an audience ranging from 10 years-old students to 18 year-old...
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Channel One news anchor Julian Dujaric.
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Jessica Kumari in her 6th! year at Channel One News.
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Food food advertising is back at Channel One News.
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One News is now advertising the notorious SunnyD beverage to its captive audience of schoolchildren. Yes, Channel One News is back advertising junk food to American students. If you think “junk” is too harsh for such a “sunny,” “delightful” drink, then you probably haven’t checked out its ingredients. SunnyD...
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From Jim Metrock: The blank purple space at the top of all Channelone.com’s pages used to be filled with banner ads. For several days the banner ads are gone. Does this mean Channel One News has run out of companies wanting to advertised on their controversial website? That is possible since there...
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Screen shot from Channel One News on March 28, 2013 Middle schools are shown the same content as high schools. Teachers are given no warning of controversial stories on Channel One News so parents cannot talk with their children about what they are going to see on Channel One.
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