There hasn’t been one for six years, even though Channel One said there was. From Jim Metrock: Since April 2006, Channel One has told the public they had in place an all-teacher Advisory Board helping the company better serve American schools. The ten members were all outstanding teachers from around the country....
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From Jim Metrock: Who are the advertisers on Channel One News? Parents want to know, educators and school administrators want to know.Taxpayers of course want to know what companies are using taxpayer-funded school time to sell to students. In short the public wants to know. The public has always wanted to know, but...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One’s new Privacy Policy appears to be more controversial than it’s previous version. Privacy concerns will be a major problem for Channel One and its fellow Alloy kiddie marketers. Ms. C.J. Kettler the new Channel One CEO may think she can continue to collect information on other people’s children,...
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July 8, 2013 – Channelone.com “breaking news” article. From Jim Metrock: For months Channel One News would post AP news stories without attribution. They made other people’s content appear to be their own. It was dumb for them to do that because they knew they would caught. Above is an AP story on Channelone.com today...
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From Jim Metrock: This past weekend Channel One went live with a new look to their website. There is little new content on the new site; most of the changes are merely cosmetic. Nothing stood out to me that would make parents and educators feel more favorable towards Channel One. Indeed, Channel...
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From Jim Metrock: Channel One News regularly plays music from rock and rap bands during their classroom TV show. They shouldn’t. Helping to interest schoolchildren in new rock, pop and rap artists is not the stated purpose of Channel One News. Channel One got into schools (disproportionately into schools in lower-income communities) by promising...
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Clearasil remains one of the few advertisers left on the controversial, in-classroom Channel One TV show.
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From Jim Metrock: The blank purple space at the top of all Channelone.com’s pages used to be filled with banner ads. For several days the banner ads are gone. Does this mean Channel One News has run out of companies wanting to advertised on their controversial website? That is possible since there...
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