From Jim Metrock: I recently found the transcript for the 1998 face off between Dr. Alex Molnar of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Channel One’s CEO David Tanzer. Both appeared on the Today Show to discuss Dr. Molnar’s study The Hidden Costs of Channel One. The study said that Channel One was costing...
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From Jim Metrock: There was no press release announcing her hiring. All previous CEOs benefited from a substantial public relations effort when hired. Ms. Kettler got nothing. Strange. It might have been Ms. Kettler who insisted on no publicity. I could understand that. Odd that Obligation, Inc. was the entity that told the...
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“It made me think about all of the terrible things my kids were exposed to in public school over the years – and none of us parents could ‘censor’ any of it. For instance, I was livid when Channel 1 broadcast news of Jeffrey Dahmer’s hideous murders directly into my kids’ classroom several years ago. I had censored...
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From Jim Metrock: He was the man Henry Kravis picked to run K-III Communications in 1994. (K-III changed their name to PRIMEDIA in 1997.) William Reilly never could get people excited about this “Macmillan” (publishing house) clone. Now he has to fall on his sword. He announced his “early retirement” yesterday. I suspect more heads will roll over...
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The ratings are in and Channel One has something to brag about to future potential advertisers. They teamed up with the WB Network to help sponsor a contest that would assure a big child audience for the sex-saturated series “Dawson’s Creek.” Channel One ran ads urging children to see the season premiere entitled “The Morning After”. According to Electronic...
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