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Anderson Cooper had moved on from Channel One by the time I was a freshman, but I distinctly remember how much of a crush the upperclassmen girls had on him and I was jealous. Looking back I had nothing to be jealous about.

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Coakis@reddit

Amazing how many of the heartthrobs had to hide their sexual orientation from then.

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CurlyBill03@reddit

I remember channel one covering the Matthew Sheppard story so heartbreaking.

Other memory was Columbine and they tried to blame it on Marilyn Manson.

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Critical_Liz@reddit

Wow, really?

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Deep-Interest9947@reddit

He was the international correspondent

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elphaba00@reddit

He still had brown hair!

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NotanotherRealtor@reddit

Yup! We watched Anderson from the very beginning of his career.

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JasonGD1982@reddit

Maria Menounos

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SonuvaGunderson@reddit

Rawley Valverde

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spuldup@reddit

Reasons I was never late for homeroom, for $500, Alex.

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TPlain940@reddit

Don't forget about my boy Craig Jackson

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Kulban@reddit

Yeah I remember when it was first introduced. I remember none of us being interested, and it was just another "waste of time in the morning" at school. I do remember recognizing Anderson Cooper and Lisa Ling years later when I saw them doing big boy news.

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ripple667@reddit

i remember that was the first time i heard about the “information superhighway” on channel one news in middle school. the internet made no sense to me at that time but sounded cool

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HTownGuero666@reddit

My most vivid memory was the Columbine coverage in ‘99. I remember a montage of terrified teens running out of the school set to the song “Dead Bodies Everywhere” by KoRn. There were no lyrics, but I’m shocked someone got away with that, appropriate as it was.

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ChaseTheRedDot@reddit

So the tvs were operated from a central box somewhere in the school. The box had a connection to a satellite dish to receive the programming (channel 1 shows and other programs from the network). There were two vcrs in the box, one for the other programs and one to record channel 1. The C1 VCR was set up to cue itself after recording the broadcast.

The box had two buttons on it. Push one button to power on the TVs remotely and start the channel one tape. The other could do something I don’t recall. You could hit the buttons in a certain order and power on all the TVs, but not start the program - so a school could run its own program through it.

You could also run audio into the box and it, if there was an input video signal, could broadcast out to the school.

The contracts said that schools had to provide time in the school day to run the main show to keep the TVs. By the end, they weren’t strict on enforcing that rule.

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Adh1434@reddit

Here’s TVs so we ( channel one news ) have a captive audience for our sponsors.

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scribblenator15@reddit

I took channel one as a class in high school

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whyneedaname77@reddit

I actually thought it was pretty solid.

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No_Kaleidoscope9901@reddit

There was a commercial for a study abroad company that made me absolutely desperate to travel the world. It seemed so cool. The song on the commercial was “Roam” (if you want to…).

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ericwbolin@reddit

Erreday from eighth to 12th.

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MLDaffy@reddit

We only got to watch it beginning of school day in homeroom for the 15 mins we were in there. Sometimes a teacher would be lazy and let us watch instead of work.

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krissym99@reddit

I remember the commercials more than the news itself. Gatorade, Pepsi etc!

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Taskerst@reddit

Peak Crystal Pepsi and “Be Like Mike” era of commercials.

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Few-Efficiency324@reddit

Yeah, it felt like this was just a vehicle to get kids forced to watch ads and call it "school." Kinda like the Pepsi machines in the cafeteria

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Deep-Interest9947@reddit

That’s exactly what it was.

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TPlain940@reddit

We all watched the preview for Ace Ventura: Pet Detective on an ad break and collectively lost our shit when he punched the Eagles mascot 🤣🤣🤣

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Humean_Being84@reddit

Yes! I definitely had a crush on Monica Novotny in like 5th grade. 😂

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JasonGD1982@reddit

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hiddenhighways@reddit

Wittle?

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krissym99@reddit

They reduced our lunch time to shuttle us back to our homeroom to watch Channel One. A petition circulated saying, "Since our lunch is little, do away with Wittle."

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Geochic03@reddit

No my school didn't have the money for a TV in every classroom.

However, when I taught very, very briefly in a middle school in the late 00s, they would show channel one news in the AM after announcements.

Spoiler alert: none of the kids were paying attention to it.

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Deep-Interest9947@reddit

Channel One paid for those TVs to be in every school (or more accurately, the advertisers). Thats why every middle school had them. To sell you mentos and shit.

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pearlsnapper@reddit

I crushed hard on Serena Altschul

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Deep-Interest9947@reddit

She moved on to MTV news, right?

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Critical_Liz@reddit

I was talking about this with my sister recently, she asked how much I remember about the Croat-Serbian War. I remember specifically a reporter from this program going there and having a mild breakdown during the night because there were bombs going off and shit.

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capthazelwoodsflask@reddit

We got TVs in every classroom but the only time we used them was in study hall. For the first 10 minutes they showed Channel 1 news and the commercial for that fucking Mariah Carey Christmas album.

But yeah, I still think white hair Anderson Cooper looks weird and remember seeing him in Bosnia and Sarajevo during the war. He seemed so much more harcore than necessary for a news org that called it's studio "the Hacienda"

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Ok_Difficulty_7650@reddit

Live every morning from the Hacienda!

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epidemicsaints@reddit

Yes, it's how we got TVs in every classroom. I remember seeing Berlin Wall and USSR stuff the most. Bosnia and Sarajevo too.

I still remember the way a correspondent said "eggs" and "cucumber" in her thick accent talking about crazy high grocery prices after the USSR started dissolving, it became a joke for years. I can't even type it, eggs was kind of like AGGnnnn.