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Anchors Away

September 13, 2004
Anchors Away

Eight, Seven, Six, Five… Four Will Derrick Shore be the last person remaining at Channel One News?   In a little over a year’s time, Channel One News has cut back from eight news anchors to four. This drastic cut is obviously due to the financial troubles that plague the company. The remaining anchors are Derrick Shore, Seth...
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Old News

August 15, 2004
Old News

Headline at 6:15 PM (CDT) August 15, 2004 On Channel One’s Web Site   Channel One News likes to bill itself as the “only source of news” for many of the children forced to watch their in-school TV show. Heaven help those unfortunate children. Channel One News does not broadcast over the summer. To Channel One News, there...
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Razor to the wrist

August 12, 2004
Razor to the wrist

  This is a picture of Channel One’s message board this afternoon (August 12). Somebody posted a message that uses symbols to draw what appears to be a razor cutting a wrist. This would be in keeping with Channel One’s previous cutting postings earlier in the year. Obligation believes that Channel One executives are NOT trying to get children interested...
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Nicholas Berg

June 9, 2004

In May, Channel One’s president of programming, Morgan Wandell, made a decision to show American schoolchildren part of the tape that terrorists made of Nicholas Berg Berg was an American that was captured by terrorist and then killed. The terrorist filmed his beheading. Channel One’s Morgan had access to the terrorist film and decided that American students were tough enough...
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It’s NASCAR Time For Kids

May 2, 2004

Friday, April 30, Jimmie Johnson became a news anchor on Channel One News. Mr. Johnson is a driver on the NASCAR race circuit. He appeared for two purposes: to get kids to turn into Fox’s broadcast of the Auto Club 500 race on May 2 and to help young people become fans of NASCAR. NASCAR is using taxpayers...
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Heavy Lifting Needed

April 29, 2004

From Jim Metrock: When Channel One’s parent company, PRIMEDIA, Inc., announces their quarterly earnings, they have a conference call that allows analysts to ask questions of the top brass. Usually, there are few comments or questions about Channel One. That is changing as Channel One’s fortunes continue to deteriorate. Here are sections of today’s release that deal with Channel...
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Channel One’s Columbine Joke

April 27, 2004
Channel One’s Columbine Joke

It is difficult to imagine a company that makes more bad decisions than Channel One News. On April 21, Channel One did something that many have urged them not to do. They ran a story about the anniversary of the Columbine shootings. Was it absolutely necessary to put the Columbine tragedy into schoolchildren’s faces AGAIN? The producer of that...
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Overview Of Channel One

April 24, 2004

Chicago Media Watch Presentation From Jim Metrock: It was an honor to be invited to be a speaker at the spring Chicago Media Watch conference. Advertising to children was the focus of their meeting. I was to talk about Channel One. I had already committed to another meeting, so I filmed my presentation and put it on a DVD...
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One Minute And Fourteen Seconds

April 14, 2004

“The Calling” Advertisement – March 19, 2004 This video clip is taken from Channel One News, March 19, 2004. This is one continuous clip. It is 1 minute and 14 seconds long. Anyone that has access to a calculator, please multiply 8,000,000 (students under contract to C1N) times 74 seconds. How many student hours is that? This particular show...
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Anne Hathaway’s Special Time With Your Child

March 26, 2004
Anne Hathaway’s Special Time With Your Child

Photo from www.channelone.com Money passed hands. The deal was sealed. Anne Hathaway would get an opportunity to talk directly to millions of young people while they were at their desks at school. Who is Anne Hathaway? And why would she want to appear on classroom TVs? She is an actress that has a movie coming out in April. Miramax...
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