The advertising guru Christopher Whittle created Channel One News in 1989. Whittle sold his idea to schools as a way for students to learn about current events. He sold his idea to advertisers as an effective way to get commercials in front of a captive audience of young people. Whittle Communications (1989-1994) Whittle...
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From Jim Metrock: When a movie studio comes to Channel One wanting C1’s help getting kids to buy tickets to their movie, Channel One News goes into overdrive. Channel One will do whatever it takes to make that movie studio happy. (What about what’s best for students? You gotta be kiddin’. This is Channel...
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From Jim Metrock: I saw a movie today that was advertised on Channel One News. It was horrific. It was extremely violent. It was repulsive. Channel One News is a small company. It’s CEO Ms. C. J. Kettler has to know what is going on in every aspect of the company. She had...
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Channel One News cut this commercial out of their “parents” version of the program streamed on Channelone.com. We show the public their entire program. Why does Disney need taxpayers to subsidize their movie ads?
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This is the intro for the February 28, 2011 Channel One News show. To everybody with walking around sense this is a commercial for the animated movie Rango. Channel One says this is not a commercial. They say they are simply using a current movie and a starring actress to grab the attention of...
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Sony Pictures picked the pocket of taxpayers when they used public school time to promote the movie The Green Hornet on Channel One News. Movies are constantly being advertised on Channel One News. Many like this one movie have troubling content.
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From Jim Metrock: Every commercial for a movie in a public school classroom IS ugly. Above is part of the Channelone.com web advertising campaign for the new PG-13 movie Beastly. Channel One News of course also ran promotions for the movie on their in-school TV program. The movie is inappropriate for many middle school...
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