Above: Actual images from today’s (12/15/04) showing of Channel One News. Students hear “Rock your senses!” over and over. This is a play on Herbal Essence’s signature “orgasmic” theme. It may appear that the woman in today’s Herbal Essence commercial is naked, but she has a towel around her. Here Channel One News goes AGAIN allowing sex...
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Ken McNatt has done a content analysis of 25 episodes of Channel One News. We have included his observations along with a link to his web site for the full story. “The breakdown for the first 25 episodes can be summed up as follows: – About 12.25 minutes per episode – A little over 7.25 minutes of...
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http://www.thetranscript.com/Stories/0,1413,103%257E9043%257E2569420,00.html A former indentured student writes about her Channel One News experiences in the North Adams Transcript (MA). “There are also better ways to encourage teenagers to take an interest in the world and its news than plugging them into the commercial laden news magazine called Channel One.” Thanks to Ken McNatt.
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We have reported about Channel One’s unethical use of school time to advertise the movie “Finding Gracie.” Channel One violated its own “news standards” by merging advertising into the news portion of the show. “Finding Gracie” is not a typical movie. It is a gimmick by another one of Channel One’s advertisers – Gatorade. Gatorade is helping to...
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Stephanie Smith is a Channel One News employee. She wrote this article that “winks” at cheating on a book report. This Channel One writer knows she is writing for children. She makes it clear that she knows many would think of watching the movie version as opposed to reading an assigned book. Excuse us, Stephanie, you are wrong. Most...
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You wouldn’t think ANY Catholic school would have a contract with Channel One News. A church-run school that tolerates the advertising of drug and alcohol movies and sexually charged movies and TV shows to students is a church-run school that has many more problems than Channel One. (Note: Channel One continues to advertise PG-13 movies to middle schoolchildren.)...
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From Jim Metrock: On Friday, November 5, schoolchildren forced to watch Channel One News saw their second “special” news anchor for the week. Jeremy Sumpter co-hosted the entire Channel One broadcast for middle and high school students. Sumpter is a TV actor for a struggling CBS show called Clubhouse. (On Monday, UPN paid to have an actress from their...
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Warner Brothers movie studio once again needs the help of Channel One News. There is a new movie coming out called “The Polar Express.” It is based on the best-selling children’s book. WB, a major advertiser on Channel One has a huge amount of money involved in the movie. It is imperative that children see this movie in...
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This is bad. Somebody ought to be fired. Waltman Pharmaceuticals makes an acne medicine called Zapzyt Acne Treatment Gel. They got caught trying to advertise the product on children’s television programs earlier this year. On July 29, the Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus announced that Waltman agreed to stop advertising during...
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Reality sinks in at Channel One News. From Jim Metrock in Bryant Park in New York City: Beautiful day in Bryant Park (right behind the New York Public Library). It is a beautiful little park that has a special feature I really like – free, high-speed, wireless Internet service. I have been in the Big Apple since Sunday and this...
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