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which for months has fought a public relations battle with education leaders, 
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it has signed 500 schools in 24 states to subscribe to the controversial Channel One news program and its sister programs.
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 Channel One, a satellite-delivered daily program 
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supported by advertising,
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 is scheduled to be launched next March.
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 Whittle said 
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its field staff signed up the 500 schools in 238 school districts after only eight weeks 
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and company executives now expect to reach their start-up goal of 1,000 schools before the end of this year.
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 Christopher Whittle, chairman of the Knoxville, Tenn., media company 
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that is 50% owned by Time Warner Inc., 
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that by December 1990 he expects to have Channel One installed in about 8,000 schools with a potential audience of six million.
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 Installation of the TV system, 
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which includes providing free 19-inch TV sets in classrooms,
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 begins in January.
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 What we've done in eight weeks shows 
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we won't have enormous difficulties 
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getting to the place 
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we want to be, 
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said Mr. Whittle.
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his sales force is signing up schools at the rate of 25 a day.
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 In California and New York, state officials have opposed Channel One. 
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Mr. Whittle said 
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private and parochial schools in both states will be canvassed 
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to see if they are interested in getting the programs.
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 Subscribing schools get the 12-minute daily Channel One news program,
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 whose four 30-second TV ads during each show have drawn protests from educators.
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 Subscribers also get the Classroom Channel,
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 which will feature ad-free educational programming similar to some public-TV shows,
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 and the Educator's Channel, 
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which will offer instructional programming for teachers and school administrators 
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and will be supported by advertising.
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 Whittle has met some resistance. 
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The Educational Network, 
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as Mr. Whittle has named the three programs,
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 has been offered to 1,290 school districts 
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and Whittle continues to negotiate with 919 districts.
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 About 10% of the school districts approached have rejected the network.
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 Mr. Whittle said 
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that so far, three of the six schools 
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that carried the program in a five-week test last spring 
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have subscribed to the program.
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 One of the test schools, Withrow High School in Cincinnati, rejected the project.
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 John Bruner, associate director of communications for Cincinnati Public Schools, said 
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Channel One was rejected 
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because students 
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watching the program 
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didn't fare particularly better on a 28-question current events quiz than a control school 
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without the program 
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and school absences were almost unchanged during the period 
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when the program was being aired.
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 The number of correct responses was 45% on the test 
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and school absences didn't change much, 
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said Mr. Bruner. 
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The pilot program was received well 
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(by teachers and students), 
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but there wasn't reason enough to sign up.
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 We even invited the public to stop by and see the program, 
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but there wasn't much interest.
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 Advertisers are showing interest. 
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Last month, Whittle announced 
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it had sold $150 million in advertising time on the network to national advertisers.
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 Mr. Whittle Friday said 
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several more advertisers have been added.
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 Whittle is spending $150 million initially
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 to launch the network.
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 Installation of satellite dishes, TVs and videocassette equipment will cost the company about $20,000 per school,
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 Mr. Whittle said.
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