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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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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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Should I Spring For The Expensive Paper?

February 15, 2004

From Jim Metrock: I am posting this from a hotel just up the street from the Broadway headquarters of Channel One News. I was in town to talk to some important people about the marketing geniuses at C1N. I dropped by their headquarters on Friday. It was about 4:30 and I didn’t have an appointment. This was...
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Five Examples of How Channel One News Cheats

January 17, 2004
Five Examples of How Channel One News Cheats

Below are five pictures. Each is an actual frame from the in-school TV show called Channel One News. Example #1 Stealing time from taxpayers. After the Channel One News show appears to end, the screen goes black, but then the students see this graphic. The purpose of airing the name of a school is to get teachers to...
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PRIMEDIA’s 3rd Quarter Results

October 30, 2003

Channel One’s parent company, PRIMEDIA, is in terrible shape. The company announced their third quarter results today and it was dismal. Last year’s third quarter showed a loss of one cent per share. This year, they lost 17 cents per share. This greatly exceeded what the experts had predicted. PRIMEDIA is one lousy company. It has never made...
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Channel One News Kicks Off August 11

August 1, 2003

From Jim Metrock: As this school year starts, there is more opposition to Channel One News than ever before. The company is paying the price for years of insensitivity to its captive audience of students. Expect more ads for profanity-filled, sexually-charged, ultra-violent, drug and alcohol drenched movies from our friends at Channel One News.  These Channel One...
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Drugs, Sex, and Channel One News

January 14, 2001
Drugs, Sex, and Channel One News

January 14, 2001 – Drugs, Sex, and Channel One News   Drugs, Sex and Channel One News Check out the latest outrage from Channel One. A “funny” movie about two “pot-heads” who get so “stoned” that they don’t know what girl they had sex with, what strip bar they went to, what they did with a transvestite the...
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Channel One Wants Personal Information From Children

June 16, 2000
Channel One Wants Personal Information From Children

Channel One wants to know about your child. Obligation has stopped them before but now they are back pushing the envelope. To get information from children the common practice among marketing firms like Channel One is to stage a contest. Dangle something children want in front of them and then tell them that you have to supply personal information in...
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Advertisers Losing Interest In Channel One?

May 17, 2000

Primedia’s president Tom Rogers recently mentioned that Channel One is losing advertiser support. Evidently three big advertisers have seriously lowered their spending on this controversial TV show or they might have totally withdrawn from the show. Obligation urges all companies that are advertising on Channel One and channelone.com to remove their financial support. There are other more respectable ways to get...
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The Ghost of Chris Whittle Returns

March 1, 2000
The Ghost of Chris Whittle Returns

WIDTH=”254″ HEIGHT=”190″ ALIGN=”LEFT” BORDER=”0″ NATURALSIZEFLAG=”0″> SIZE=”+1″ FACE=”Arial”>March 1, 2000 – Channel One Returns to Whittle Days in Stunning Announcement Channel One has been without a permanent president for over six months. Today they announced the hiring of Jim Ritts as Channel One’s new president. There is nothing “new” about Ritts. He was one of the co-founders of Channel...
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