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Secrets about Channel One News: They advertised racy TV shows to students.

January 1, 2019
Secrets about Channel One News: They advertised racy TV shows to students.

  From Jim Metrock: Pretty Little Liars was heavily advertised on Channel One News. Q:  What type of creepy adult would promote age-inappropriate cultural rot to children? A:  The creepy employees at Channel One News. Some of the Channel One employees who helped plug this filth to kids in their classrooms were: Shelby HollidayScott...
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It’s May, time for Channel One News to promote raunchy Pretty Little Liars TV show to children.

May 10, 2014
It’s May, time for Channel One News to promote raunchy Pretty Little Liars TV show to children.

  From Jim Metrock: It is so easy to get sick of Channel One News.    The company is constantly selling kids something. Often their ads don’t appear like ads.  Channel One is a master at mixing news with advertising.   On May 6, the classroom TV show Channel One News starts off with...
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Entire Channel One News show is one big commercial.

June 4, 2013
Entire Channel One News show is one big commercial.

Channel One News published this script in May. We don’t know the day it was shown to students.   Students: Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one! Scott: What is up! I am Scott Evans. Shelby: And I am Shelby Holliday. Scott: And we’re here at Goose Creek High School in...
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Channel One says Pop Quizzes are not advertising ABC TV shows.

May 4, 2012

Are they right?  
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Pop Quiz Challenge challenges school administrators patience with Channel One’s over-the-top teen marketing.

April 17, 2012
Pop Quiz Challenge challenges school administrators patience with Channel One’s over-the-top teen marketing.

  Next month, Channel One News will spend an entire show doing a Pop Quiz that is little more than a 12-minute long commercial for four ABC TV shows. Check out the absurdity from May 25, 2011. https://obligation.org/2011-06-03-channel-one-news-a-program-length-commercial  
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The Lying Game

August 23, 2011
The Lying Game


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A program length commercial

June 3, 2011
A program length commercial

  On May 25, 2011, Channel One News devoted their entire show to advertising four ABC television shows. The...
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How clever: Working TV shows ads into Pop Quizzes

May 9, 2011

NOW I KNOW YOU’VE GOT SOME BIG GAMES COMING UP, SO DON’T FORGET TO BRING YOUR CAMERA. THAT MEANS YOU TOO GIRLS. WE WANT TO SEE WHAT YOU’VE GOT! AND SINCE WE’RE ALREADY ON THE FIELD LET’S SEE HOW MUCH YOU BASEBALL FANS KNOW. I’M GONNA SEND IT OVER THE FOLKS AT ABC...
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A pop quiz about – HEY, WATCH THE NEW SEASON OF PRETTY LITTLE LIARS THIS JUNE – the trapped miners in Chile.

April 20, 2011
A pop quiz about – HEY, WATCH THE NEW SEASON OF PRETTY LITTLE LIARS THIS JUNE – the trapped miners in Chile.

The video clip below  is from the April 13, 2011 Channel One News program shown to middle school students. Alloy Media and Marketing created the extremely controversial Pretty Little Liar books and TV show. Underage drinking is glorified routinely in the books and TV...
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BusinessWeek: Alloy and Teenage Girls

October 15, 2010

Alloy Wants to Own Teenage Girls The entertainment company dominates teen books, television, and film, so why not the Web, or the rest of the world? By Susan Berfield Josh Bank is a cheerful guy in a red-checked shirt and pressed khakis with millions of young women under his influence. On this Sunday morning in...
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