From Jim Metrock: April 26, 2013 – Ah, the embarrassment was too much for Channel One and its on-air personalities. (I admit it was disquieting even to me to see Channel One reporters begging advertisers to help their company.) YouTube has taken down our “Sizzle/Frizzle” video because Channel One claims a copyright infringement. There...
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Jim Metrock: In 16 years of researching and reporting on Channel One News, I have never seen such a video. Channel One’s “reporters” are virtually begging any potential advertiser to help pay their salaries. These young people consider themselves young journalists, but as I always try to remind people, they are employees of...
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Today PRIMEDIA announced their 1st quarter 2006 results. The revenue losses for Channel One are staggering. The past few years PRIMEDIA has separated out Channel One’s ad revenue. Up until that happened, the public had no idea how well Channel One was performing. We have posted below the quarterly results and company comments on Channel One. The fourth quarter of 2003...
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Primedia’s president Tom Rogers recently mentioned that Channel One is losing advertiser support. Evidently three big advertisers have seriously lowered their spending on this controversial TV show or they might have totally withdrawn from the show. Obligation urges all companies that are advertising on Channel One and channelone.com to remove their financial support. There are other more respectable ways to get...
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