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Channel One News is a 12 minute news program for teens broadcast via satellite to middle schools and high schools across the United States. Channel One news has received over 200 awards for journalism excellence including two Peabody awards.
Channel One is owned by Alloy Media + Marketing and based in New York City.
nel One was founded in 1989 and began with a pilot program in four high schools before its national rollout in 1990.
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Channel One News is a 12 minute news program for teens broadcast via satellite to middle schools and high schools across the United States. Channel One news has received over 200 awards for journalism excellence including two Peabody awards.
Channel One is owned by Alloy Media + Marketing and based in New York City.
Program History
Channel One was founded in 1989 and began with a pilot program in four high schools before its national rollout in 1990. It was founded by Christopher Whittle, a business executive based in Knoxville, Tennessee. Primedia purchased Channel One for approximately $250 million from Whittle in 1994. On April 23, 2007 Alloy Media and Marketing assumed the liabilities of Channel One and took over their assets.
In December, 2006, Channel One's parent company, Primedia, classified its Education Segment, which includes Channel One Network, as a "discontinued operation" and announced that it was "exploring strategic alternatives for" the businesses in that segment. In 2007 Primedia sold Channel One to Alloy Media and Marketing. In July, 2007, NBC News announced that it would be partnering with Alloy under an arrangement in which NBC would work with Channel One News to produce original content for Channel One’s in-school broadcasts, providing Channel One with access to global newsgathering resources,ensuring worldwide coverage wherever and whenever news breaks. .
Special Segments
Channel One has segments which air on a regular basis which encourage viewer participation. These segments are sometimes sponsored by advertisers.
24/17
This is a segment that Channel One does once a month to feature a day in the life of a 17 year old in another country. They show the 17 year old and then they show what they do from the time they get up in the morning until the time they go back home for dinner. Some previous 24/17s included the Navajo Nation, London, and Tel Aviv. To watch the videos go to the following link
http://www.channelone.com/life/specials/2417/
Pop Quiz
This is Channel One's most frequent special segment.
An anchor asks a multiple choice question to students regarding a current or historical event. The anchor then gives students ten seconds to come up with an answer. The anchor who reads the question, or the anchor's partner for the day, will then give the correct answer and explain it. From time to time, the Pop Quiz may lead off the program. The Pop Quiz is occasionally commercially sponsored by various organazations and companies.
AT&T Question of the Day
This special segment comes in two parts over two shows.
The first segment consists of a message poll, usually regarding a story Channel One has aired. Viewers have three options to voice their opinions. Viewers can send their response to Channel One's website, call in their answer to a toll-free Channel One number, or text their answer to Channel One on an AT&T phone.
The second segment is usually aired the next day, although developing news stories may cause it to be delayed. The program gives the results of the poll and then airs two student's opinions regarding the question asked. Students who have their comments aired receive an AT&T brand mobile phone with three months of pre-paid service.
Prior to 2007, the segment was entitled Cingular Question of the Day, reflecting the sponsor prior to its merger with AT&T in 2006.
1Voice
This section includes stories related to Americans' First Amendment rights.
One Step to a Better Me
This segment includes tips and exercises to help viewers stay healthy.
Player of the Year
This special segment presents Gatorade National Players of the Year, which are notable athletes.
Play of the Week
This special segment is usually the last segment of each Monday program. It features a clip of a different high school sporting event sent in by viewers. It is sponsored by Gatorade.
The First Play Of The Week Ever Was Sent In By Rhodes Junior High Mesa Arizona
Glory Road
This special segment is sponsored by the United States Army. It features teenagers who have made a significant impact on others in the world. On Channel One's website, teenagers can be nominated for Glory Road.
Week in Rap
This segment happens at the end of every Friday show as of the week of Feb. 9th, 2009 in which a rapper will rap lyrycs that depict the important events that happened in the past week.
Going Green
This segment shows ways that teens can be environmentally friendly and how other schools or teens are doing it around the world.
OneVote
Channel One held mock Presidential elections called OneVote shortly before the general elections in 1992, 2000, 2004 and 2008.
1992
The initial vote in 1992 had 3,400,000 participants. Bill Clinton won the 1992 OneVote, garnering 43% of the vote. George H.W. Bush got 27%, with independent Ross Perot getting 24% of the vote.
Actual election result: Clinton won, Bush finished second, and Perot finished third. One Vote accurately mirrored the outcome; in fact, Clinton received the same popular vote percentage (43%) in the real election.
2000
When OneVote returned in 2000, 878,000 students participated and elected George W. Bush to the Presidency with nearly 60% of the vote. Al Gore, the Democratic challenger, finished a distant second.
Actual election result: Al Gore won the popular vote, but George W. Bush won the electoral college, which means that George W. Bush won the election. Thus, OneVote mirrored the true outcome, although by a much more convincing margin than the real election.
2004
The 2004 OneVote gave George W. Bush 55% of the vote. John Kerry finished second with 40% of the vote, while all third-party candidates as a group (voters could only vote for them as a group) got 5%. The vote consisted of 1,400,000 students.
Actual election result: Bush won the 2004 Presidential Election, same as the OneVote result (and was only off by four percentage points to Bush's 51% of the real popular vote).
2008
The 2008 OneVote gave Barack Obama 51.5 percent of the vote. John McCain finished second with 48.5 percent. The official result of the election was Barack Obama with 53% of the public vote and John McCain with 46% of the vote.
Controversy and criticism
Channel One has been controversial largely due to the commercial content of the show. Critics claim that it is a problem in classrooms because it forces children to watch ads, wastes class time, and wastes tax dollars. Supporters argue that the ads are necessary to help keep the program running and lease TVs, VCRs and satellite dishes to schools, as well as commercial-free educational video through Channel One Connection. In 2006, the American Academy of Pediatrics reported that research indicated that children who watched Channel One remembered the commercials more than they remembered the news.
The Teen Drama Degrassi: The Next Generation did an episode similar to this issue.
Another criticism, noted by Media Education Foundation's documentary Captive Audience, is that very little time is dedicated to actual news and the majority of the programming is soft, sensationalistic "fluff" with corporate marketing and PR tie-ins to promote products and services, arguing that it further corrupts the school setting with consumerism.
Channel One's contract with schools requires that the program be shown to students on 90% of all regular school days. At some schools, teachers are allowed to preview the show and decide if they want to show it or not; however they must still show it at least 90% of the time. The teachers are also instructed to make sure students watch the complete program and leave the volume at an audible level throughout the whole program, including the advertising content. However, according to critics, many schools do not follow the contract verbatim and let the teachers decide whether or not it should be shown. Some criticisms by students is that some school schedules on viewing Channel One have cut into their lunch periods. Students, if not monitored, may also treat Channel One time as a study hall.
Channel One is played through out the day at different schools. It is prerecorded at usually their area at Rockefeller Center.
Anchors
Channel One News currently has three anchors/correspondents on its roster. These anchors serve as hosts in the studio as well as correspondents in the field.
Current
Justin Finch,
Jessica Kumari,
and Steven Fabian
Former
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