All summer long and as recently as this past Labor Day weekend, Channel One had opportunities to bring their students the news and didn’t. The self-proclaimed "only source of news for millions of kids" has failed to use their web site (www.channelone.com) to keep children up-to-date on breaking news. Jim Metrock said, "Channel One...
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Channel One Forgot the News!
ChannelOneParents.com Is Dead
It was announced last year with great flourish. Channel One was going to have a web site just for parents of children required to watch Channel One during their school day. The concept was ludicrous from the beginning. Channel One has been a big secret for parents and that is why Channel One got...
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“This is a big company preying on my children.”
BusinessWeek (dated September 11) hit the newsstands today and the cover story is “Too Much Corporate Power?” Channel One is prominently mentioned and Diane Gramley of Franklin, PA is shown with two of her children standing in front of Rocky Grove High School. This courageous woman has not only taken on her school board but the huge corporate power...
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Channel One’s Candy Hall of Fame
August 28, 2000 – This is some of the candy that Primedia’s Channel One advertises to schoolchildren. Remember how hungry you would get in school. Channel One knows they have a hungry captive audience. One commercial Channel One ran for years was a "Hungry? Why Wait?" commercial for Snickers. Snickers made Channel One a...
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Channel One’s Hall of Shame
Mt. Dew is a long-time advertiser on Channel One. They consistently run loud and hilarious commercials that would draw the attention of even the most serious student in the class. Mt. Dew must be very pleased with the effectiveness of Channel One. The goal of Channel One is to get kids to buy and...
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Channel One,Hires “Real World” Janet Choi
d JANET CHOI (Picture from MTV’s "The Real World" 1998)- She starred in MTV’s controversial and over-the-edge "Real World" and now she is talking directly to your middle school children. "Real World" was an unscripted show that placed seven people who didn’t know each other into a house together and then filmed them. The...
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Loser and Nutty Professor
Who cares about our policies and standards. Nobody reads them. One of Channel One’s policy statements says: "(We will) not air programming or commercial content that promotes promiscuity, the use of drugs, alcohol, or tobacco, or includes any offensive language, nudity, or sex." This policy was violated by the recent advertisements and contests for...
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Channel One’s Web Site Is Cause for Alarm
Forget News, Channel One Aggressively Promotes Pop Culture Latest Contest Features Britney Spears Channel One’s Web Site Is Cause for Alarm From Jim Metrock: The infamous Channel One web site is worth a visit by parents, teachers and anybody that cares about children. When channelone.com first got started it was a horror house of...
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New School Year Starts With Channel One’s Web Site Promoting Eddie Murphy’s Latest Dirty Movie to Children
Warning – This movie is so indecent and the soundtrack so vulgar that our commentary unfortunately needs to contain much offensive content. As Channel One becomes more aggressive in marketing vulgarity to children, we regrettably must print content that is deplorable. Parents, teachers, and taxpayers need to know what Channel One is...
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Channel One Partners With Travel Agency
This is from a June 26, 2000 Primedia press release: CHANNEL ONE PARTNERS WITH BYEBYENOW.COM Primedia’s Channel One, the largest source of video news and information for teenagers, has taken a non-cash equity position in ByeByeNow.com, the online travel and leisure company. In exchange for an equity interest in ByeByeNow.com, Primedia will provide advertising...
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News About Channel One Jan. – July 2000
Channel One – The Most Controversial Show On Television -2000 January – July 2000 August – December 2000 July 24, 2000 – I Go See Channel One’s "Loser" Movie – Beware Explicit Language Is Used to Describe A Truly Offensive Movie July 15, 2000 – A Student Speaks Out About Channel One...
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Channel One Advertises Unbelievably Sleazy Movie To Children
Jim Metrock said, “Channel One continues to think that children can handle movies filled with strong sexual content and profanity. Our friends at Channel One are promoting the movie “Loser” to its children audience. Channel One’s official web site, channelone.com, is running a contest so children can win tickets to this yet to be rated movie. The stars of this...
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Folkemer-Approved Movies
Update: Good News and Bad News – The good news for Channel One is that the MPAA finally agreed to give the Channel One promoted movie called “Loser” a PG13 rating. The bad news for kids is that it is a “hard PG13.” It barely escaped a “R” rating. This movie, from all accounts, will be offensive combination of...
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Channel One’s Contract
A Channel One Contract In the early 90’s Alabama school systems signed contracts with Whittle Communications, the parent company of Channel One News. Whittle sold Channel One to the present owners, PRIMEDIA, Inc., in 1994. The original contract remained controlling as the contract automatically renewed every three years. PRIMEDIA rarely replaced the old contracts. That explains why “Whittle”...
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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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Andy Hill President of Channel One Programming Leaves
The carnage continues at the controversial Channel One Network. The company often held up their president of programming, Andy Hill, as a reason why parents should trust Channel One. They said in their literature that Hill was the man who brought America “Touched By An Angel” so parents should feel good about the man in charge of programming for...
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Bring Sanity Back To Schools
HEIGHT=”55″ ALIGN=”LEFT” BORDER=”0″ NATURALSIZEFLAG=”3″> America is rising up against Channel One. Kick Madison Avenue and Hollywood out of your child’s classroom. Channel One is robbing precious school time from your child or grandchild. Join the nationwide effort to bring sanity back to public schools. Contact us at info@obligation.org HEIGHT=”55″ ALIGN=”LEFT” BORDER=”0″ NATURALSIZEFLAG=”3″>
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West Palm Beach School Shooting
May 26, 2000 To: Paul Folkemer, Jim Ritts, Jeff Ballabon, Tom Rogers, and Roger Wolfson Today there is yet another incident of violence in our public schools (West Palm Beach). I have called on you before to end the promotion of violent entertainment to America’s schoolchildren and I have heard absolutely nothing. Do you think marketing violence is a...
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Center for Media Literacy
In a continuing effort to look reputable, Channel One has found another organization that will “partner” with them. This time it’s a media literacy group in California called the Center for Media Literacy. It is not known if this group was paid to enter this relationship. Last year a so-called media literacy expert named Renee Hobbs entered into a contract...
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Teacher Email Dropped By Channel One
Channel One announced they have dropped their year long effort to get teachers to sign up for free Channel One email. Obligation has monitored the Channel One “Teach 1” forums which were a side-by-side feature with their email. Hardly any teacher used the forum section and it is not surprising that few used the email feature. It appears that...
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National Curriculum?
“All Who Want A National Curriculum For Schools Please Raise Your Hand.” Channel One Executive, Roger Wolfson, Praises Channel One For Being “…Closest Thing to a National Curriculum” Channel One executive, Roger Wolfson, told Progressive Magazine that “In spite of the bad stuff you hear from Nader and the opponents it (Channel One News) really is the closest thing...
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