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1/2 of show promotes largest advertiser: US Army

March 29, 2011

Video was removed due to complaint filed by Channel One News.    Channel One News is contractually limited to have no more than 2 minutes a day of advertising, but on this day, they devote over 5 and a half minutes, of a 12-minute program, to promoting their most important advertiser — the U...
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Air Force Recruitment Commercial

January 21, 2010
Air Force Recruitment Commercial

Students in schools that still have Alloy’s Channel One News are compelled to watch military recruitment ads several times a week.
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The Army Channel

May 2, 2006
The Army Channel

  The Army has been a major advertiser on C1N for years. On Friday, February 24, Channel One devoted half of its program to US Army-related content. During the first of two commercial breaks, students watch a very odd 30-second spot. Students don’t know what they are watching. The small “US Army” logo at the end of the commercial...
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What’s Wrong With This?

February 3, 2006
What’s Wrong With This?

  This video clip from Channel One will start with a recruitment ad for the Army and then go immediately into a feature story about a high school football player from Kentucky. Channel One News is cutting back on their news stories because they are too expensive to produce. Shooting footage like this is relatively cheap and requires little...
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