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1989: Channel One.

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The first in-school television news program, the for-profit Channel One News reached 8 million students a day in 12,000 schools. So did advertisers – a 2006 study by the American Association of Pediatrics showed that the channel consisted of 2 minutes of advertising for every 10 minutes of programming.