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Archives: CCFC calls out Channel One in Alabama

May 26, 2014
Archives: CCFC calls out Channel One in Alabama

  Alabama schools chief Tommy Bice urged to pull plug on Channel One   Marie Leech al.comon August 06, 2012 at 6:30 AM       Channel One screen capture image from its website. BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — A Boston-based nonprofit group is asking Alabama school Superintendent Tommy Bice to suspend the use of Channel...
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Birmingham News: Alabama schools chief Tommy Bice urged to pull plug on Channel One

August 6, 2012
Birmingham News: Alabama schools chief Tommy Bice urged to pull plug on Channel One

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama — A Boston-based nonprofit group is asking Alabama school Superintendent Tommy Bice to suspend the use of Channel One programming in Alabama schools, reopening a debate over whether the 12-minute broadcast aimed at teens is appropriate. The group, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, asserts that the Channel One television news program —...
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