From Jim Metrock: This is one of my favorite articles. I clipped it out of Advertising Age magazine way back in 1996. Heidi Diamond was just hired by Channel One News to help take the kiddie marketing company to new heights. In 1996, Channel One was making so much money it was...
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A link entitled “Ten Things to Know for Monday” on the front page of Channelone.com took readers to the above article. We shrunk it down to show the whole article as one image. There is no author or source attribution at the beginning or the end. Anyone reading this would assume Channel One staffers...
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Channel One News is actively plugging The Carrie Diaries before its January 14 premiere on the CW Network. Channel One News is enticing teens and children to watch the Sex in the City prequel by offering them a chance to win a two day trip to New York City and a $1,50o0 gift...
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Channel One says of Kuang: “Jason graduated from SUNY Purchase with a BA in Journalism, and then went out into the world to pursue his journalism career, which started when he was an intern at Channel One. He is now a full-fledged staff member working on a little bit of everything.” Going to...
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From Jim Metrock: The first Wastin’ Time and Tax Dollar$ Award is given to the Mississippi School for the Deaf. The above Facebook post indicates that this school is showing Channel One’s hyper-commercial TV show to students. Students are subjected to Channel One’s relentless commercials for questionable movies and TV...
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December 24, 2012 Channel One News has dished out a lot of violence to middle school kids. December 23, 2012 From the archives: Channel One starts up (1990) December 20, 2012 We never said farewell to Josh Zepps. Or hello to Julian Dujarric. December 17, 2012 Complete, unedited Channel One News for September...
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Channel One News has a long, disgusting history of advertising movies and TV shows with violent content. And using violent images to even sell products like Mountain Dew and Mug Root Beer. Here is just a sampling of their recklessness. During the holidays it is a good time for all of us to...
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The glory years for Channel One News were 1991-1997. From Jim Metrock: Christopher Whittle, the marketing genius who created Channel One News, wanted ads in places where a person could not turn away. Placed-based advertising he called it. His goal was to force advertising onto people in a way that would demand extremely...
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From Jim Metrock: Anchor-to-be Josh Zepps (How old are the anchors?) had enough of Channel One News. After doing a few shows this spring, Zepps left for a job with the Huffington Post this past summer. But of course there is always someone ready to host the kiddie marketing TV show and the new guy...
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