About Channel One

Updated: September 30, 2008

We are Channel One Network, the pre-eminent news and public affairs content provider to teens. Our mission is to spark debate and discussion among teens, and also discussion between young people and their parents and educators, on the important issues affecting young people in America.

Broadcasting since 1990, Peabody Award-winning Channel One News is the leading source of news and information for young people. The 12-minute news broadcasts are delivered daily to more than 6 million teens in middle schools and high schools across the country.

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

Channel One News and its three-time Webby Award-winning Web site, ChannelOne.com, feature stories on breaking news and in-depth issues that affect the world, the nation and specifically, America's teenagers.

In April 2005, Channel One News won a second George Foster Peabody Award for its recent 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 are 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 is a leading award that 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.