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Channel One News is out of Rome, GA.

March 31, 2018
Channel One News is out of Rome, GA.

From Jim Metrock: The article below is from November 15, 2005. Since that time I have been to Italy and I still like Rome, Georgia better. I recently contacted the Rome City school district and found out that Channel One News is gone from its schools. I don’t know when it was given the...
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“Bro” and “Dude” do a shout out on Channel One News. Students had to watch this.

December 10, 2012
“Bro” and “Dude” do a shout out on Channel One News. Students had to watch this.

 
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Wasting tax money: Was this video shown in schools?

September 16, 2012
Wasting tax money: Was this video shown in schools?

From Jim Metrock: Channel One’s Executive Producer published this video in 2010. Even though it was made available to the public, I didn’t discover it until recently. The video is below. At first it appears to be nothing more than a funny, tongue in cheek video made by fellow Channel One News employees to...
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Jessica Kumari, of all people, reports on why American education faces problems.

April 24, 2012
Jessica Kumari, of all people, reports on why American education faces problems.

For the past five years Jessica Kumari has made her living usurping precious school time from middle school and high school students. She is an employee at the youth marketing firm called Channel One, LLC. She is an on-air personality for a TV show that brings commercials into American classrooms. Ms. Kumari makes money...
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Channel One’s “journalists” on parade

March 8, 2012
Channel One’s “journalists” on parade

On February 15, 2012 Channel One News used their crack team of “journalists” to show off school tee shirts. This one 30-second bit of nonsense cost students and taxpayers dearly. Channel One says they have “nearly 5.5 million” students. (They once claimed a captive audience of 8.1 million.) If half of their claimed audience...
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Avon Middle School North, Avon, Indiana

October 15, 2011
Avon Middle School North, Avon, Indiana

2nd Nominee for our Wastin’ Time and Tax Dollars Award   From Jim Metrock: Obligation, Inc. has instituted an award that will “honor” public schools that show Channel One News and its commercials during the school day. The award is called the Wastin’ Time & Tax Dollars Award.  Obligation will nominate public middle schools and...
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Rome High School

November 15, 2005
Rome High School

From Jim Metrock: I’ve always liked Rome. Rome, Georgia, not Italy. (I’ve never been to Italy.) When I was in the wire business back in the 80’s, I had a lot of great customers in Rome. It’s a beautiful little town in a scenic part of northwest Georgia. So it was sad to come to Rome this...
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