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TVs were permanently installed in my middle school classrooms to watch these people.

Posted by EverythingHalfAss@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 28 comments

TVs were permanently installed in my middle school classrooms to watch these people.

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Alice_600@reddit

Okay confession time. I used to write fanfiction about Lisa and Anderson in Bosnia and he saved her life. She later made the bullet into a necklace to remind herself how much she loved him.
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Tiny_Charity4151@reddit

Wtf. Anderson Cooper fanfiction wasn’t even on my Reddit bingo card today…
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Alice_600@reddit

I didn't know he was gay! I was in middle school and I was lonely!
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jynxismycat@reddit

Tracy Smith was on Channel One too. It seems like most anchors from Channel One went on to become very successful. What sticks out for me is the contest or whatever marketing campaign M&Ms had for introducing a new color M&M. Does anyone remember that? That's how the blue M&Ms came about.
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kup1986@reddit

Who is the one next to LL?
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clo4k4ndd4gger@reddit

Justin Gunn I think.
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SnipesCC@reddit

Channel 1 was how I learned Kurt Cobain died.
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Obduraterthanthepast@reddit

Channel One! Omg I had the biggest crush on Lisa Ling from watching this in school.
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Brain_Glow@reddit

I entered a contest they had for a student produced week of shows. They chose applicants to come in and do everything from camera, lighting, reporting, etc. I sent in a video to be the music director or something (the person that chooses the music played in clips and as bumpers). Sadly, I did not get chosen. I really worked hard on that video.
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General-Carob-6087@reddit

Same here. I didn't mind seeing Lisa Ling every day though.
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santodiablo714@reddit

Lisa Ling. Would.
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cordelaine@reddit

I only recently learned that is Anderson Cooper in the upper right.
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OutcomeLegitimate618@reddit

I found out years ago that the hot gay guy from TV that I have a crush on now is the same cute guy we watched in middle school. Mind blown.
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cordelaine@reddit

Hey, you’re consistent! 
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full_of_ghosts@reddit

My school didn't have this. I've literally never heard of it until just now. But that photo of young Anderson Cooper dressed as a "cool 90s guy" is seriously blowing my mind.
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Rusalka-rusalka@reddit

Oh shit that's Anderson Cooper!
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justme131@reddit

And all of it was just so we could watch the commercials and make the rich richer.
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Dear-Discussion2841@reddit

Honestly I think it would do the youth of today some good to watch Channel One.
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usernames_are_danger@reddit

Craig Jackson, Ralie Valverde…good times
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SiliconObsessed@reddit

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JgaIz2Dweg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JgaIz2Dweg) Holy 1990s music and graphic design, Batman.
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NickLoner@reddit

I don't remember much about it, other than it being the easiest part of the day lol
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SiliconObsessed@reddit

Hearing the TV turn on by itself was always a good sign that you have a 10-15 minute break!
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Kryptin206@reddit

Oh yea, they had to force us to watch Channel 1 in homeroom because they got all the tv equipment free and that was part of the contract.
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SiliconObsessed@reddit

Same. My school showed it in a different period each day (Mon 1st, Tue 2nd, etc). We really didn't have homeroom, so I imagine this was the most effective way to get eyeballs on Channel 1.
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Siferatu@reddit

This and the school's news broadcast
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Top_Bike2729@reddit

Channel One News. We had a huge satellite on our campus for this.
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RudeAmount9607@reddit

Yep, and we would dovetail our local HS news channel after it (Mustang Cable System holla!). Then somewhere along the way we just stopped airing channel 1, and a piece of all of us died.
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OhioMatt77@reddit

Channel One
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