Matt Diamond is the founder and CEO of Alloy Media and Marketing. Kent Haehl used to be Channel One’s VP of Sales. He left the company several years ago and has been hired back as Channel One’s CEO. Alloy’s stock peaked at $91in 2001. Today December 3 it is trading at $6.75. There...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One News is no longer hiding the fact its main mission is to help advertisers connect with young people. The new CEO of Channel One News is Kent Haehl. He used to be Channel One’s Vice President of Sales. He was the man responsible for some awful commercials in...
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From Jim Metrock: One of the last organizations that should ever give money to Channel One is the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. This organization helps promote excellence in journalism. Now it appears they have expanded their mission to help underwrite bizarre journalism. As responsible advertisers have fled from Channel One’s controversial...
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Channel One News is giving a group called Environment Defense unprecedented access to millions of teens and preteens. ED believes drastic action must be taken to stop global warming or the planet will suffer major consequences. Several...
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Eileen Wu (Columbia), Alexander Marquardt (Georgetown), Meka Nichols (Harvard Law) Channel One News limps into another school year after a disastrous 2005-06 season. After losing four of their reporters (Errol Barnett, Seth Doane, Melissa Knowles and Rich DeMuro), the company has hired these three to join Cali Carlin. At one time, when Channel One News was...
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PepsiCo’s Gatorade is a long-time advertiser on Channel One News. We have previously reported* about the enormous amounts of time Channel One allows Gatorade to sell their product to preteens and teens. In addition to commercials, Gatorade sponsor’s the weekly “Play of the Week” which is nothing more than a long-form commercial. Now Channel One News is going even...
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A lobbyist tied to Jack Abramoff has pled guilty to conspiracy. Tony Rudy like “Casino Jack” Abramoff did work for PRIMEDIA and Channel One Network along with other firms. Rudy’s and Abramoff’s troubles don’t have anything to do with Channel One, but the public needs to know the type of people that Channel One hired to represent them on Capitol Hill, at...
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Channel One News offers a lot of opportunities to advertisers. Advertisers are able to craft their sales pitches in unique ways on Channel One. Advertisements can be made to look like news stories. We have reported before on the use of fake news reporters being used in Channel One commercials. This past Friday, during a special Town Hall meeting with...
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Today PRIMEDIA announced their 1st quarter 2006 results. The revenue losses for Channel One are staggering. The past few years PRIMEDIA has separated out Channel One’s ad revenue. Up until that happened, the public had no idea how well Channel One was performing. We have posted below the quarterly results and company comments on Channel One. The fourth quarter of 2003...
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Jon Lovitz is a comedian. Apparently, so is Channel One’s CEO Judy Harris. It has to be a joke, right? Why else is comedian Jon Lovitz on the classroom TV screen? Channel One’s approval of this latest Subway ad wouldn’t make sense unless it was all a dirty joke played on students. At the first of this 2005-06...
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