@sendpaws @gray @vicious @phnt @p @lanodan Channel One was still operating in 2018.

There has always been efforts to get commercial content into schools -- the "Crest test" of the 1950s (https://repository.duke.edu/dc/adviews/dmbb36813) to Weekly Reader and Scholastic catalogs disguised as "magazines."

At our school, they brought in vending machines (coca cola, etc) to raise funds for athletics (irony much?). In retaliation some people I might have been counted among taught the fine art of "dollaring" the machines by using packing tape to make a dollar that you could yank back out of the machine after it credited you for a drink, and then get an additional fifty cents (the change for the dollar you yanked) for your trouble. This was not simple theft, but intentionally meant to teach the athletics department a lesson by making it cost them money rather than raising money (it worked.)

In the 90s, there all kinds of bizarre deals that branded the schools with various products (often soda) in exclusive arrangements in exchange for donations -- if the student consumption met sales quotas (this was parodied/presented in an episode of the Daria cartoon on MTV -- further irony.)