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  Iraq War Beats USA Economy as Top Issue for American Teens in Exit Polls From Channel One News' 'OneVote 2004' ...
Channel One News is the highest-rated teen television program in United States and is broadcast via satellite to nearly 12,000 secondary schools across the country.
About Channel One News A Primedia (NYSE: PRM) company in its 14th year of broadcasting, Peabody Award-winning Channel One News is the leading source of news and information for young people, with an average rating over 20 times that of MTV.
Issuers of news releases and not PR Newswire are solely responsible for the accuracy of the content.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-29-2004/0002317466&EDATE=   (612 words)

  
  Channel One News - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Channel One News is a television program shown in classrooms in 8,000 to 12,000 secondary schools in the United States.
Channel One held a mock presidential election called OneVote on October 19th and 20th, 2004.
Channel One's contract with schools requires that the program be shown to students on 90% of all regular school days.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Channel_One_News   (1381 words)

  
 Channel One
Channel One is a twelve-minute television news program targeted to teenagers and distributed via satellite to over 12,000 middle and high schools across the United States each school day morning.
Channel One news content is geared to teenagers, and delivered by anchors and reporters typically in their early to mid-20s.
In addition to the daily Channel One news program, schools are also provided with approximately 250 hours per school year of noncommercial educational programming (through an agreement with Pacific Mountain Network) that is designed to serve as a supplemental teaching tool to support existing curricula.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/C/htmlC/channelone/channelone.htm   (623 words)

  
 The Hidden Costs Of Channel One:Estimates for the Fifty States
Although appraising the educational value of Channel One is beyond the scope of this analysis, a brief review of the educational issues is offered to provide context for the discussion.
Channel One is conveyed to students without charge by hardware which is installed in participating schools.
Channel One has been banned by the New York State Board of Regents and state education officials in California and elsewhere have sought to discourage the use of the program by schools.
www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/CERU/Documents/cace-98-02/CACE-98-02.htm   (4309 words)

  
 Channel One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Channel One News, a school television program in the United States
In Audit, Channel One are clients certified by the Audit firm, as opposed to Channel Two
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Channel_One   (153 words)

  
 News for a Captive Audience
Channel One sends the news via satellite early in the morning, where it is taped by each school's VCR, then distributed to individual classrooms at a designated time.
Channel One does not provide students with resources to be able to understand, in even the most rudimentary way, the workings of the economy or the significance of economic developments.
Although Channel One does not follow the standard news script that employs experts in prominent roles, it does follow its own set of conventions in coverage of controversial issues, both inside and outside the world of politics.
www.fair.org /index.php?page=1383   (2258 words)

  
 Channel One News ~ Stephen's Web ~ by Stephen Downes
Channel One News is a United States television news program that public and private schools agree to show their students in exchange for the loan of TV equipment.
Channel One was founded in 1989 and began with a pilot program in four high schools before its national rollout in 1991.
Channel One's home state of New York has banned Channel One News from all public school classrooms, by action of the State Board of Regents.
www.downes.ca /cgi-bin/page.cgi?topic=58   (1973 words)

  
 Channel One: Going, Going, Gone? — Commercial Alert
The future of Channel One, the in-school TV network that launched the careers of CNN’s Anderson Cooper and “National Geographic’s Ultimate Explorer” host Lisa Ling, is hanging in the balance.
Channel One is part of Primedia’s Education division, which performed poorly in the third quarter.
Channel One News reaches more than 7 million secondary-school children in 11,000 schools and has in the past won a Peabody for its coverage of issues for young people.
www.commercialalert.org /news/archive/2006/12/channel-one-going-going-gone   (572 words)

  
 PRIMEDIA's Channel One News Series Explores Teen Modeling and Talent Industry Scams
NEW YORK, NY--(May 12, 2005) --PRIMEDIA's (NYSE: PRM) Channel One News, the largest source of news and information for young people, reaching nearly eight million students in nearly 12,000 middle schools and high schools across the country, announced today that it will broadcast a new three-part series on modeling and talent scams aimed at teenagers.
Channel One News spoke with teens who have been misled and other teens who have had a successful foray into modeling and acting.
Channel One News and its award-winning Web site, www.channelone.com, feature stories on breaking news and relevant issues that affect the world, the nation and, specifically, America's teenagers.
www.primedia.com /pr/press/ch1modelingseries51205   (549 words)

  
 Channel One News to be Measured by Nielsen Media Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 3, 1998-- Channel One News and Nielsen Media Research announced today a five-year agreement under which the audience measurement service will provide television ratings to the network beginning with the 1999 Fall season.
Channel One Network is the leading provider of television news and educational programs to America’s secondary schools.
The meters, equipped with new software, will provide daily estimates of the number of schools and classrooms that incorporate the 12-minute Channel One News program into their curriculum.
www.nielsenmedia.com /newsreleases/1998/channelone.html   (344 words)

  
 Channel One News falls apart.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
On Monday, Primedia, the parent company of Channel One News, announced that it is considering splitting the company into two separate companies.
Channel One News is a government-sponsored news program.
Channel One has hired a PR company called Sloane and Company to send out fabulous sounding press releases about the most insignificant happenings.
www.obligation.org /channelone/2005/fallingapart.html   (531 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Channel One ads sway teens
Schools that agree to show Channel One on 90 percent of school days receive free televisions and satellite dishes, a deal critics say turns students into a captive audience for advertisers.
Channel One CEO Judy Harris questioned whether the students' purchases were influenced exclusively by Channel One ads or by other advertising and the preferences of their peers.
Advertisers don't influence the news content, and the company has high standards that keep ads appropriate for students, she said.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,635189643,00.html   (458 words)

  
 Channel One criticized - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Channel One News, first broadcast in 1990, is a 12-minute long news program with up to two minutes of commercials.
He said Channel One is the "least commercial way" for news to enter a classroom.
"(Channel One) is a way of bringing the news to a plane that engages teenagers," Ballabon, a former high school teacher, said.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/search/s_148962.html   (1514 words)

  
 Non-Stop News - Florida's News Channel
The third evolution in FNC's conception was the change from a statewide news channel to individually produced, local channels, all relying on a mix-and-match, digitally delivered package of content from Tallahassee.
The news channel signed an agreement with Tallahassee Community College and Enterprise Florida, a public-private partnership, for up to $248,000 in grant funding for the International Institute of Virtual Simulation and Graphic Arts, to be housed at the FNC facilities and to offer electronic college courses in virtual reality.
Or is it a statewide news channel in a state where one city (say, Miami) cares nothing about the next and where news from the capital is generally met with the same yawns as the politicians who generate it?
www.rtnda.org /resources/nonstopnews/floridanews.html   (2206 words)

  
 ATR: Op-Ed: Tuning in to Channel One
Channel One Network provides a daily 12 minute news program for middle and high school students in 12,000 public, private and parochial schools across the country.
Channel One ads are the same as those seen on network TV by teen-agers every day.
Channel One producer, Andy Hill, is one of the creators of the prime-time TV shows "Touched By An Angel" and "Promised Land," acclaimed by conservatives as the best on TV.
www.atr.org /press/editorials/013099wt.html   (764 words)

  
 Neo-liberal news for kids: Citizenship lessons from Channel One
As Schaffer (1999) put it: “The goal is to produce news that citizens need to be educated about issues and current events, to make civic decisions, to engage in civic dialogue and action—and generally to exercise their responsibilities in a democracy.
When news anchor Gotham Chopra physically and symbolically stands in the space between the police and the demonstrators in Seattle, he is symbolically articulating that he—along with Channel One itself—is simply a disinterested reporter of facts: facts in the neo-liberal “public” interest.
News must be seen and practiced much more as a public forum of many voices and interests than as an oracle of truth handed down from political elites and supposedly disinterested science filtered through the constraints of a for-profit market.
www.utpjournals.com /simile/issue13/bybeefulltext.html   (9769 words)

  
 PRIMEDIA's Channel One Receives Two Prestigious Webby Awards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Channel One was selected from hundreds of entries, and was in the esteemed company of established original content providers such as Scholastic, Inc. and MTV Networks.
Channel One was one of 13 entrants to garner two awards in any single category.
The 12-minute daily news broadcasts are delivered daily to nearly 8 million students and 400,000 educators in nearly 12,000 middle and high schools across the country.
www.primediainc.com /pr/press/ch1webby5405   (607 words)

  
 Channel One News
Channel One News covers national and international topics as well as programs presenting moral or ethical issues, individuals overcoming challenges and showcases positive role models for teens.
Launched in 1990, in response to the decline in cultural literacy among America's teens, Channel One News is among the best practices in public-private partnerships.
Channel One News' mission is to inform and empower young people.
www.primedia.com /divisions/educationandtraining/channelone   (250 words)

  
 USA: commercials in the classroom
The liberal attack on Channel One is from the perspective of consumers versus advertisers and big business, arguing that corporate advertisers should not be able to buy access to children’s minds in school and that public schools should not abdicate control of class time to commercial interests.
As the channel’s advertisement to media buyers puts it, the show “is viewed by more teens than any other programme on television.” Another industry advertisement refers to the channel as “the smartest place to reach tweens.” Tweens is a Madison Avenue term for children 9-14 years old, a coveted demographic group.
Channel One is developing a media literacy curriculum for schools, and its website, which has long supplemented the TV show with additional information, quizzes, and the like, is getting an infusion of spending.
www.unesco.org /courier/2000_04/uk/apprend.htm   (2081 words)

  
 globeandmail.com : globeinvestor.com : Channel One and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Present Prestigious Journalism ...
NEW YORK (Business Wire) -- Channel One, the largest source of news and information for young people, reaching almost eight million students in nearly 12,000 middle schools and high schools across the country, teamed again with the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial to recognize the winners of the Robert F. Kennedy Student Journalism Award in broadcasting.
Channel One is a market leader and an innovator in educational news and public affairs programming for the classroom.
Dedicated to the education of teens, Channel One recognizes that because of today's globally integrated world the journalism profession is changing, making it even more critical to teach young people the meaning of responsible and balanced reporting.
www.globeinvestor.com /servlet/WireFeedRedirect?cf=GlobeInvestor/config&vg=BigAdVariableGenerator&date=20050524&archive=bwire&slug=20050524005492   (615 words)

  
 deseretnews.com | Work of 2 Utah students to air on Channel One
Channel One News, beamed daily into 12,000 schools nationwide, including several in Utah, will feature the work of two local high school students this week.
Cody Deskins, left, of Kearns High and Brad Butler of Jordan High were selected to produce TV news spots that will be viewed by about 8 million teens and 350,000 educators in the United States on a daily news show that is broadcast in many public schools.
Channel One is a 12-minute, daily newscast geared toward teens.
deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,600125319,00.html   (492 words)

  
 NAMC Newswire - Channel One Highlights Newsmakers for the Week of December 12, 2005
NEW YORK, NY, (NAMC) - Channel One, the preeminent news and public affairs content provider reaching almost eight million students in nearly 12,000 middle schools and high schools, highlights national and global news stories covered by Channel One News during the week of December 12th.
Channel One spoke with Iraqis living in the United States who were allowed to cast their votes.
Channel One News and its award-winning Web site, ChannelOne.com, feature stories on breaking news and relevant issues that affect the world, the nation and, specifically, America's teenagers.
press.namct.com /content/view/4732/127   (449 words)

  
 The Talon - York High School - Article
Channel One must be shown during instructional time, meaning that advertisers need not worry about getting teens’ attention; the schools take care of that for them.
Channel One News is the only opportunity for many students to get in touch with the world around them.
Though I might sound melodramatic, Channel One News is vital to the educational growth and expansion of students at York High School.
www.my.highschooljournalism.org /va/yorktown/yhs/article.cfm?eid=1602&aid=20054   (1269 words)

  
 Channel One - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Channel One's web site says "Channel One News is a daily, televised, 12-minute newscast that is beamed via satellite during the school year to each of the 12,000 schools in the Channel One Network community."
In schools Channel One has been successful in penetrating, students are required to watch these transmissions every school day which includes commercial advertisements.
Channel One provides free televisions and VCRs to schools in exchange for this requirement.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Channel_One   (254 words)

  
 Channel One News TV Show - Channel One News Television Show - TV.com
The award-winning Channel One News is a flagship of the Channel One Network.
Channel One News is a daily, televised, 12-minute newscast that is beamed via satellite during the school year to each of the 12,000 schools in the Channel One Network community.
Channel One News features stories on breaking news and in-depth issues that affect the world, the nation and specifically, America's teenagers.
www.tv.com /channel-one/show/19630/summary.html   (208 words)

  
 Channel One Network
Channel One and Alliance for a Healthier Generation have joined to combat the spread of childhood obesity and the serious diseases associated with it.
A special event celebrating the life of Edward R. Murrow, and the birth of broadcast news.
Our Peabody Award-winning show is the preeminent news and public affairs content provider to teens, reaching more than seven million teens in middle schools and high schools across the country, nearly 30% of teenagers in the U.S. More »
www.channelonenetwork.com   (280 words)

  
 NEA: Some Are Making Channel One Work
In schools across the country, Channel One is beaming breaking news and information to teens, packaged between commercials.
Channel One News, the flagship of the Channel One Network, is a daily, televised 10-minute newscast beamed via satellite during the school year to each of 12,000 subscribing schools.
Channel One can be used to introduce current events in any class, from math and science to English and history.
www.nea.org /teachexperience/sjm020910.html   (890 words)

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