Steven Fabian
| Channel One News | |
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| Launched | 1989 (pilot program debut) 1990 (national debut) |
| Owned by |
Whittle Communications (1989-1994) PRIMEDIA (1994-2007) Alloy Media+Marketing (2007-2012) ZelnickMedia (2012-May 13, 2014) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (May 13, 2014-present) |
| Country | United States |
| Website | http://www.channelone.com (program site) |
Channel One News is a digital content provider. The daily news program has been accompanied by commercial advertising for marketing in schools, with supplementary educational resources. The Peabody and Telly Award-winning Channel One News program is broadcast to approximately 5 million young people in upper elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools across the United States. Channel One News is now also available advertising-free through a subscription. On May 13, 2014, it was sold for an undisclosed price to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Channel One was founded in 1989 and began with a pilot program in four high schools before its national rollout in 1990, with original anchors and reporters Ken Rogers, Lynne Blades and . It was founded by Christopher Whittle, along with co-founder Ed Winter, advertising and marketing executives based in Knoxville, Tennessee. Primedia purchased Channel One for approximately $250 million from Whittle in 1994, with Ed Winter remaining as Chairman for several more years..
The program's first executive producer, Cynthia Samuels, came to Channel One from 9 years at the Today Show. While at Channel One she created Student Producer Week—during which students produced, reported, directed and designed an entire week of programming—Channel One's one-hour specials including one in Moscow and Ohio, one in Tokyo and Texas, one in Los Angeles after the Rodney King riots hosted by Arsenio Hall and OneVote—an "election night" for students to vote for President and watch the returns come in live from their classrooms. After Cynthia Samuels came Douglas Greenlaw, former President of MTV, followed by David Neuman, former Vice-President of Comedy at NBC, who took the show to new heights, and also remained with the company for years after the sale of the company.
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