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Pop quiz time

October 25, 2012
Pop quiz time

 
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Here comes the boom, Channel One.

October 23, 2012
Here comes the boom, Channel One.

From October 2, 2012. Here’s a good example of why thousands of schools have dropped Channel One over the past few years. This one clip is 40 seconds long.  40 seconds X 4.8 million students is a lot of wasted time. Those seconds were paid for by taxpayers. Taxpayers have every right to ask...
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An email to Kent Haehl and Paul Folkemer

October 19, 2012
An email to Kent Haehl and Paul Folkemer

Official movie poster for The Possession.    From Jim Metrock:  I saw this Channel One News-promoted horror movie in September and wrote the two men that I believe are ultimately responsible for advertising it to young people not only on the Channelone.com website, but in American high school and middle school classrooms. I now...
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Why is this man smiling?

October 17, 2012
Why is this man smiling?

  From Jim Metrock: Jim Marshall just got a promotion. That’s good news for him, right? There’s a reason for him to smile. Except that… Marshall is now the CEO of Promethean World.  Ugh. (The previous smiling Promethean CEO before he was fired.) Promethean World is a British company in a World of hurt. (July...
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Losing 1 school per day for 5,000 days straight.

October 12, 2012
Losing 1 school per day for 5,000 days straight.

Schools continue to remove the hyper-commercial Channel One News from their classrooms.          
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Hollywood dominates Channel One News. Yet another movie promoted to students.

October 9, 2012
Hollywood dominates Channel One News. Yet another movie promoted to students.

Hollywood movie studios love Channel One News. They are constantly using Channel One to promote their latest movies to a captive audience of young people. So far this 2012-13 school year, Channel One has been advertising a new movie every week. Although this practice annoys principals and teachers, it makes Channel One News a...
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GA principal wants no loss of school time. Plays Channel One before start of school day.

October 8, 2012
GA principal wants no loss of school time. Plays Channel One before start of school day.

     Cairo High removes Channel One News from their school day. Cairo High School has expelled Channel One News from their school day. Like many schools that have yet to end their contract with the controversial youth marketing company, Cairo High has moved the airing of Channel One News to a time before...
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Can’t even give Channel One News InterActiv away.

October 5, 2012
Can’t even give Channel One News InterActiv away.

The unholy alliance of Promethean white boards with the extremely controversial Channel One News program appears to not be going well.  (Who could have seen that coming?!) Now schools are being offered the first year free.  Of course a company doesn’t make such an offer if customers are already buying their product. Now Promethean...
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Collapsing: Channel One News loses another 500,000 student viewers.

October 2, 2012
Collapsing: Channel One News loses another 500,000 student viewers.

 Channel One News is quickly disappearing from classrooms.   There are a lot of tears nowadays at Channel One News. Plummeting audience numbers means shrinking ad revenue.Shrinking ad revenue of course means… oh no, there go the tears again.   A 9.0% loss of audience follows 2011’s loss of 8.3%. For the last two years...
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“Pay attention to the rock n roll education.”

October 1, 2012
“Pay attention to the rock n roll education.”

This rock band feels so comfortable using Channel One News to promote their obscure group to students during taxpayer-funded school time that they brag about it on their blog. All last week, Channel One News promoted The Kicks. Channel One featured The Kicks music during the show’s introduction. The Kicks music played again for...
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