Photo from www.channelone.com Money passed hands. The deal was sealed. Anne Hathaway would get an opportunity to talk directly to millions of young people while they were at their desks at school. Who is Anne Hathaway? And why would she want to appear on classroom TVs? She is an actress that has a movie coming out in April. Miramax...
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Snoop Dogg On Channel One From Jim Metrock: I am close to being speechless. Unfortunately for our “friends” at Channel One News, I still have the ability to type words. I should be finishing my reporting from the NASSP convention. I will get around to that later. When I arrived back in Birmingham, I had a videocassette in my...
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Gay Marriage Story On Channel One News (February 5, 2004) From Jim Metrock: No matter what a person thinks about gay marriage, what Channel One News did on February 5 and 6 was wrong. I have talked about this story in previous articles, but to actually see the story is very depressing. Channel One News is laying it...
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From the Tri-City Tribune (February 18, 2004) Article by Samantha Martin “The school board was asked to make a decision about the use of Channel One in the classroom. Channel One is a newscast program in which teenaged anchors bring present news targeted toward their peers. The program is broadcast 12 minutes per day during first period through equipment...
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Obligation reported on February 12 that Channel One’s web site was advertising Adam Sandler’s newest movie. We also reported that Channel One was sponsoring a contest with the purpose of encouraging children to see Sandler’s movie. Now, we have just seen a tape of Channel One News for the first week of February and, incredibly, Channel One actually showed...
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PRIMEDIA has been very secretive about Channel One’s ad revenue. We are aware of only two times that the public has gotten any insight into this area. In 1997, Forbes magazine reported that Channel One News had revenue of $70,000,000 for 1996. Last week, PRIMEDIA stated that Channel One News had revenue of $15,000,000 for the 4th quarter of...
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From Jim Metrock: I am posting this from a hotel just up the street from the Broadway headquarters of Channel One News. I was in town to talk to some important people about the marketing geniuses at C1N. I dropped by their headquarters on Friday. It was about 4:30 and I didn’t have an appointment. This was...
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This is a nice looking movie poster, but it is deceptive. The movie it advertises is another (almost R-rated) PG13 movie filled with drug content and loaded with Sandler’s typical, non-stop sexual content. It was a little over a year ago when Channel One News spent SEVEN consecutive school days running specially-made commercials for Sandler’s adult cartoon Eight Crazy Nights....
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You may have seen this bizarre commercial on your home TV. A man’s wife says it is OK for her to overeat at dinner because she had a Subway sandwich for lunch. It is OK to be bad, if you had a Subway. The man is seen the next day washing his car in a cheerleader’s outfit. He is...
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