Channel One News Anchors - Where Are They Now?

[Scott2011]

If you were in middle school or high school anytime from the early '90s onward, you probably remember your teachers showing broadcasts of Channel One News in their classrooms. In my case, most of my memories of Channel One come from my middle school years, since we didn't see it as much in high school.

I remember such anchors as Errol Barnett, Janet Choi, Gotham Chopra, Seth Doane, Maria Menounos, Derrick Shore, Tracy Smith, Krystal Greene, Andrew Yani, and others I can't really think of right now from between 2000 and 2003. I also recall my sixth grade social studies teacher showing a couple of VHS tapes of older Channel One News broadcasts relevant to subject matter we discussed in class; one was from 1995 and featured Lisa Ling (now host of Our America on OWN, don't remember who the male anchor alongside her was), the other was from 1998 (don't remember the names of either of the anchors on that one though).

It's interesting to know where these Channel One anchors are now. Some of them are more well-known than others (we probably all know who Anderson Cooper, Lisa Ling, and Maria Menounos are). Wikipedia's page on Channel One tells where a lot of these anchors are now, but not all of them, and they might not be entirely correct. According to that page and my own memory:
-Errol Barnett is now an anchor with CNN International
-Don't know where Janet Choi is now, but I remember she was on "The Real World" prior to her work on Channel One
-Gotham Chopra now hosts the show "Current Soul" on cable network Current TV
-Seth Doane is now a correspondent for CBS News
-Kathy Kronenberger went on to report for WJW Newscenter 8/Fox 8 News in Cleveland, but I'm not sure if she's still there anymore
-Not sure exactly what Derrick Shore is doing now, although I know one of the last things he worked in was the movie "8: A Mormon Proposition"
-Tracy Smith is now a correspondent for CBS Sunday Morning

However, many of the anchors listed on Wikipedia's page do not have working links, and some of the information about these personalities could easily be wrong. Anyone know where any of these other former Channel One anchors are now or have anymore memories of Channel One to recall?

 

[OhioMediaWatch]

-Kathy Kronenberger went on to report for WJW Newscenter 8/Fox 8 News in Cleveland, but I'm not sure if she's still there anymore

Kathy hasn't been with "Fox 8 News" for at least five years. (I thought you were in this market?)

Here's a very recent newspaper (Sun Papers) blurb on her sister-in-law, which calls her "former WJW-TV anchor Kathy Kronenburger Martin".

http://blog.cleveland.com/parmasunpost/2011/01/church_in_the_woods_to_close_i.html

 

[Scott2011]

I am in the Cleveland/Akron market. Somehow I just couldn't remember if she was still on Fox 8 or not.

 

[dave73]

Lake Ridge school system had Channel One put in their middle & high schools, & it always came on around 9:15am. I personally did not like the program, because I could get the news they reported elsewhere. I also didn't like watching commercials. Portage High School in Portage, IN tried out the service, but had it removed a year later, because students complained that it took away from their studies, & did not like the commercials (I don't know about students who attend there today, but things were different 20 years ago). When I was in the Merrillville School system, they refused to touch it, because they thought it was uninformative. They also didn't like that it took away from their studies everyday, & instead opted for the CNN Week in Review, which they recorded themselves, & only shown in Social Studies classes.

The schools (at least in my area) that even picked up the Channel One service were schools that couldn't afford the latest equipment, & had all of the TV's, satellite, & other equipment provided by Channel One.

Since I didn't like the service, I could care less what happened to the people who were on Channel One.