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As advertised on Channel One News: Gophone

August 2, 2012
As advertised on Channel One News: Gophone

Channel One News routinely violates their contract with schools.  
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No time for Channel One News: New Hope Middle School

June 23, 2012
No time for Channel One News: New Hope Middle School

Channel One advertisers hate New Hope Middle School. Do you see why?  
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Here’s an idiotic use of school time.

October 30, 2011
Here’s an idiotic use of school time.

  DreamWorks Studios promotes their new movie Puss in Boots during the first ten seconds of the October 27th Channel One News show.    
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Clayton Ridge High School

June 18, 2010
Clayton Ridge High School

The educators and administrators at Clayton Ridge High School in Guttenberg, Iowa are not about to waste taxpayer money showing Channel One News and its commercials during the school day.  In violation of Channel One’s contract they show the program “outside the bells” which, of course, Channel One News hates because there is no...
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Class Action Lawsuit?

January 6, 2005

Wednesday, January 5, 2005 Subject: Response to “Thieves of Time”   Dear Jim, This is my response to “Thieves of time”. I think that Obligation should find some schools and school districts that have Channel One, and file a class action lawsuit against them for stealing class time, and violating their contract with the school. Channel One obviously...
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More “Ads In The News” For New School Year

August 14, 2002

Not content with two minutes for commercials, Channel One started putting advertising messages into the “news” portion of Channel One News. The practice continues. Cingular Wireless not only runs regular thirty-second ads on Channel One, but they also sponsor the “Question of the Day” which is in itself an ad for Channel One’s web site channelone.com. Students who...
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Survival Year For Channel One Begins August 12

August 3, 2002

Channel One has come off one of its worst years and now faces a very challenging 2002-2003 school year. National advertisers don’t see Channel One as a “sure bet” anymore in their efforts to get commercial messages to young people. Serious questions remain about the enforcement of Channel One’s contract. As Obligation has stated for years, we know...
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Channel One Violates Contract Terms By Extending Show 1 1/2 Minutes – Also Channel One Exceeds Two-Minute Ad Limit

October 19, 1998

The new administration at Channel One is apparently disregarding the contract terms concerning the amount of advertising and the total length of the Channel One program. The contract says that the show will be 12 minutes long and the ads will be no more than two minutes of that twelve. Channel One News is now routinely 13 minutes and...
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