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Channel One News brings back Zapzyt ads.

April 25, 2011
Channel One News brings back Zapzyt ads.

Screen shot of Channelone.com April 24, 2011. Zapzyt, Acuvue contact lens, and Tampax products are not suppose to be advertised on Channel One.       From Jim Metrock: You would think even the kiddie marketing gurus at Channel One News could adhere to their ludicrous listing of things they promised they would not...
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Dear Channel One, Stop Your Deceptive Advertising

April 3, 2006
Dear Channel One, Stop Your Deceptive Advertising

  Picture taken from the actual commercial Channel One aired in classrooms. Looks like regular paper.   From Jim Metrock: Channel One News is now advertising the FLY Pentop Computer by LeapFrog. The ads are aimed at the very youngest in C1N’s captive audience (5th through 8th grade students). LeapFrog has struggled over the last few years....
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Zapzyt

October 18, 2004
Zapzyt

This is bad. Somebody ought to be fired. Waltman Pharmaceuticals makes an acne medicine called Zapzyt Acne Treatment Gel. They got caught trying to advertise the product on children’s television programs earlier this year. On July 29, the Children’s Advertising Review Unit (CARU) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus announced that Waltman agreed to stop advertising during...
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