What irony. Channel One News wastes tax money by replacing academic time with marketing time in public schools, while it remains in business mainly because our federal government continues to buy $ millions of commercial time on the program.
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From April 6, 2011 Channel One News program. There are no rougher commercials on Channel One News than for Acuvue contact lens. The executives at C1N, Kent Haehl and Paul Folkemer, have no problem letting Acuvue get a little rough with middle school and high school student. These commercials are yet again another...
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When Channel One News is paid to advertise a movie to its captive audience, they don’t fool around. They use every part of their “news show” to pound the ads into students.
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ChanneL One News rebroadcasts their in-classroom TV show on their website Channelone.com. They however heavily edit the show so no one in the public can see the commercials in their two daily commercial breaks. Each break is one-minute long and each normally contains two 30-second ads. Obligation is committed to making unedited versions of...
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From Jim Metrock: This article is from November, 2009. It’s not that long ago but it is important to revisit it in light of Channel One’s announcement this week that they will be targeting elementary school children for the first time. Channel One News has not made public their plans for elementary school kids....
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Channel One News and Teen,com article
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From June 27, 2011 press release “Channel One News is also responding to continued teacher demand with an entirely new educational product offering specifically designed for upper primary schools grades 3rd through 5th. Beginning this Fall, Channel One News InterActiv Jr., also powered by Promethean, launches with a daily interactive news service tailored for...
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This is an excerpt from a Huffington Post article about Morgan Spurlock’s new movie POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold: Spurlock notes a particularly upsetting sequence of the film in which he visits a school district in Florida that, because of incessant budget cuts, is forced to sell advertising on its busses,...
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From Jim Metrock: This video says a lot about the frivolous nature of Channel One News. Alverno High School an all-female Catholic school in California invited Channel One on-air personality Steven Fabian to give the commencement address. He accepted the invitation. He shouldn’t have. The principal of the school introduces him, but instead of...
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For the rest of the story: 2011 Knoxville News Sentinel C1 policy leads to reprimand March 27 1992
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