The Video Vault – Why Channel One News is so controversial.

Video for potential advertisers

• Channel One News – Sales Tape (1997)

Deconstructing Channel One videos

• Not so fast, Channel One News. (Aug. 2010)

• Acuvue contest / Jun. 1, 2011
• Little news / Feb. 28, 2011
• Normalizing drug and alcohol use among teens / Apr. 8, 2011
• The hyper-commercialism of Channel One News / Feb. 23, 2011
• The leisurely pace of Channel One News / Nov 23, 2010
• Tangled / Nov 22, 2010
• Feb. 23, 2010
• May 26, 2010
• The Alloy Connection

Selling movies

• Prom / April 18, 2011, Mar. 1, 2011
• Soul Surfer / Apr. 5, 2011
• African Cats / Apr. 15, 2011
• Rango / Feb. 28, 2011
• I Am Number Four / Feb. 15, 2011 & Feb. 18, 2011
• Tron / Dec 8, 2010
• Tangled / Nov 17, 2010
• Karate Kid advertised in classrooms. Tax money wasted / May 2010
• Star Trek Day / May 4, 2009
• Sneaky “Shout Out” ad for Star Trek / 2009

Selling music

• Kimberly Caldwell / Apr. 2011
• We The Kings / Feb 1, 2011
• Care Bears on Fire / Nov 23, 2010
• Hear It Now / Nov 8, 2010
• Butterfly Boucher sneaks in an ad
• Alanis Morissette guest hosting and pushing her CD
• Bonamassa desperate?
• Pretty Little Liars, Hear it Now, Marines, NASCAR teen/ May 12, 2010

Video Games

• Wii Mario Sports Mix video game ($50) / Feb 24, 2011
• “Must Have Video Games” / Feb 25, 2011
• Mario vs. Donkey Kong DS / Dec. 2010
• Monster Jam / Nov. 15, 2010
• Oh yeah, buy Golden Sun, Dark Dawn / Nov 30, 2010
• 5 Days Straight
• Presented by Zelda / Sept. 2010

TV Shows

• Entire show is a commercial for ABC TV shows / May 25, 2011
• Cartoon Network Hall of Game Award show / Feb. 25, 2011
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Guest Hosts Plug DeGrassi High
• Pretty Little Liars, Hear it Now, Marines, NASCAR teen / May 12, 2010
• Guest hosts plug controversial DeGrassi TV show
• Guest hosts pitch CDs, movies, TV shows

Websites

• Teen.com
• Teen.com / Feb. 18, 2011
• Insidecollege.com / Dec. 21, 2010

Selling health and beauty aids

• 1 Day Acuvue contact lens / Apr. 6, 2011
• Neutrogena Morning Burst / Mar. 7, 2011
• NDCLLSCDS / Dec. 2010
• Morning Burst Surge / Jan. 10, 2011
• Buy The Cure
• Old Spice (A Complete Waste of School Time )/May 10, 2010
• Clean and Clear
• Fake Reporter – Clean and Clear (2005)

Junk food

• How Channel One News helped create the youth obesity crisis / Apr. 23,24,2002
• Hostess Cupcakes (2002)
• Mountain Dew (1999)
• Mug Root Beer / Oct. 26, 1998
• M&Ms, Pepsi, Pringles / Oct. 5, 1998
• How Channel One helped create the youth obesity crisis.. / Oct. 5, 1998
• Pepsi and Star Wars / May 26, 1997
• Pepsi and Snickers / May 23, 1997
• Mtn. Dew and Winterfresh gum / May 21, 1997
• Snapple / May 21, 1997
• M&Ms and Pepsi / May 19, 1997

Military recruitment

• Marine Officer / Dec. 17, 2010
• Marine recruitment ad / 2010-11 school year
• Navy / Feb. 22, 2007
• Mixing feature story with Army ad / Feb. 19, 2007
• Deceptive Army Ad
• Channel One Mixes Black History Month With Army ad.
• Pretty Little Liars, Hear it Now, Marines, NASCAR teen (May 12, 2010)
• Air Force ad

Cell phones

• Cingular Go Phones
• LG Versa / Apr. 2009
• Cingular Question of the Day / April 22, 2002

Computers

• Dell laptop / Jun. 3, 2011

Books

• The Vampire Diaries / May 31, 2011

Controversial content

• Proposition to legalize marijuana story / Nov. 1, 2010
• Later-to-be gay activist Derrick Shore reports on gay marriage
• Channel One’s gay marriage story for preteens 2004

Deceptive advertising and content

• Harry Potter “news story” / Nov. 15, 2010
• Buy A Commercial, Get A News Story
• Small Print
• Knight Foundation Pays To Get News Stories It Wants.
• Channel One’s Chief Lobbyist: Jack Abramoff
• Channel One Advertorials / Feb. 2006

Inappropriate? content

• Half Your Parents Smoked Marijuana
• Take out “God” from Pledge of Allegiance? Yes or No

Sloppy, lazy “journalism”

• Channel One News: 9 MILLION Illegal Aliens In Arizona.

Filler content to “pad” show

• Filler PSAs / May 31, 2011
• Tee shirt time! / Mar. 4, 2011
• Tee shirt time! / Feb. 28, 2011
• Pretty Little Liars, Hear it Now, Marines, NASCAR teen / May 12, 2010
• A Complete Waste of School Time / May 10, 2010
• High School Gang Musical (Dec. 1, 2009)
• Muffin Milk / 2010

Complete, Unedited Channel One News programs

Channel One News posts their daily, in-classroom TV show on channelone.com. They say they are making it easy for parents to see what their children watch in school. Channel One however deletes at least two minutes from each “parent” version. Both one-minute commercial breaks are removed so parents cannot see what is being advertised .  Obligation is committed to posting as many unedited Channel One programs as possible. The videos below have the ads that Channel One News never intended parents and other members of the public from seeing.

• June 1, 2011
• May 31, 2011
• April 12, 2011
• April 6, 2011
• April 5, 2011
• April 4, 2011
• March 4, 2011
• March 3, 2011
• March 2, 2011
• March 1, 2011
• February 28, 2011
• February 22, 2011
• February 18, 2011
• February 17, 2011
• February 16, 2011
• February 15, 2011
• December 21, 2010
• December 20, 2010
• December 17, 2010
• November 15, 2010
• November 11, 2010
• November 8, 2010
• November 7, 2010
• March 25, 2009
• March 24, 2009
• September 9, 2008
• May 15, 2008
• May 14, 2008
• May 13, 2008
• April 2, 2008
• April 1, 2008
• March 26, 2008
• March 25, 2008
• February 15, 2008
• February 14, 2008
• February 11, 2008
• February 22, 2007
• February  21, 2007
• January 3, 2007
• April 22, 2002
• October 26, 1998
• October 16, 1998
• October 9, 1998
• October 5, 1998
• September 14, 1998
• May 21, 1997
• May 19, 1997