MARKETING

Ruling Against Commercial TV in Classroom: A contract for putting commercials in classrooms through the controversial television service Channel One violates New Jersey state law, an administrative law judge has ruled. Channel One, which carries commercials along with its news programming, “is inappropriate fare in home room or any other school day period,” Judge Bruce R. Campbell wrote. The commissioner of education has 45 days to adopt, modify or reject an administrative law judge’s recommendation or it becomes final. From company headquarters in Knoxville, Tenn., Whittle Communications Vice Chairman Laura Eshbaugh called the ruling “legally unsupportable.”