We are Channel One News, the leading television news network for teens nationwide. Our mission is to inform, educate and inspire by making news relevant and engaging for young people and sparking discussion around the important issues impacting youth today.

Broadcasting since 1990, Peabody Award-winning Channel One News, now a division of Alloy Media + Marketing, is the top source of high quality, unbiased news and information for young people. The dynamic 12-minute news broadcast is delivered daily to nearly five million teens in approximately 7,000 middle schools and high schools across the country, providing global and national headlines from a teen perspective with a fast-paced production style, youthful reporters and contemporary music.

Channel One News has covered fast-breaking world events from regions around the globe such as Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Thailand, Sudan, Sri Lanka, Jordan, Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, Myanmar, Bolivia, Australia, and Qatar, and our programming has been featured on leading networks and news programs, including CNN, ABC News, "Nightline" and "The Today Show."

To connect young people with current events, Channel One News and its three-time Webby Award-winning website, ChannelOne.com, feature interesting stories on breaking news and in-depth issues that affect the world, the nation and specifically, America's teens. Our on-air program and site are designed specifically for teens and continually give them the opportunity to express themselves and contribute to the show.

In April 2005, Channel One News won a George Foster Peabody Award for its news coverage of the Sudan humanitarian conflict. The Peabody is a long-standing honor recognizing distinguished achievement and meritorious public service by stations, networks, producing organizations and individuals, and is widely considered to be the most prestigious awards in electronic media. The win represents the second time Channel One News has received a Peabody, having won an Award of Significant and Meritorious Achievement in 1993 for its special "A Decade of AIDS."

In 2006, ChannelOne.com was nominated in two Webby Award categories, Best Television Site on the Web and Best Lifestyle Site on the Web. In 2005, it was awarded two Webbys -- the Webby Award and the Webby People's Voice Award -- as Best Youth Site on the Web. Presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, the acclaimed Webby Award honors excellence in Web design, creativity, usability and functionality. ChannelOne.com previously won the People's Voice Award in the 2002 Webby competition.

The network has a long history of journalistic excellence. Honors include a Gold Hugo from the Chicago International Television Awards in March 2003 for "Secret Nation: Inside North Korea." Channel One News has also received 23 awards from The National Educational Media Network, 14 from the National Educational Film and Video Festival, and numerous awards from The American Women in Radio & Television. The network has been honored by the Chicago International Film Festival, WorldFest -- Houston International Film Festival, the National Educational Film and Video Festival, The National Association of Hispanic Journalists, the National Association of Black Journalists, the National Association for the Mentally Ill and many more. "The Suffering of Sudan" also won a Bronze Telly Award, as well as a Silver Hugo Award at the 42nd Chicago International Television Awards.