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A telethon (a portmanteau of "television" and "marathon") is a televised fundraising event that lasts many hours or days, the purpose of which is to raise money for a ...
Since the first telethon, over US$286 million has been raised, and 14 rehabilitation centers have been built in the cities of Arica, Iquique, Antofagasta, Calama, Copiapó, Coquimbo, Valparaíso, Santiago, Talca, Concepción, Temuco, Valdivia, Puerto Montt and Coyhaique.
By the mid-1960s, organizers of the telethon chose Labor Day weekend to stage their event, as it was the only time frame made available to hold it. Many, however, expected the Labor Day broadcast would fail, as many people would have traveled out of town and/or be away from their television sets during the holiday weekend; even New York City officials were skeptical that it would succeed ...
Its first telethon was broadcast December 14 and 15, 2012 on the Univision network, and was hosted by famed Univision personality Don Francisco, who has hosted the telethon in Chile (Which was the inspiration for telethon). The first edition of TeletónUSA took US$8,150,625 in pledges, exceeding its initial goal of US$7 million. [9]
Teletón, Spanish for telethon, may refer to: Teletón (Chile), an annual Chilean telethon; Teletón (Mexico), an annual Mexican telethon; Teletón USA; see Teletón (Mexico)#Teletón USA; Teletón El Salvador
Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief was a charity telethon held on January 22, 2010, from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (January 23, 2010 from 1 a.m. to 3 a.m. UTC). The telethon was the most widely distributed telethon in history. [3]
James hosted the first telethon using the then-new television medium to raise money for charity. He was the emcee of the United Cerebral Palsy Association's telethons. James hosted the charity's primary telethon (in New York City on WOR-TV (now WWOR-TV) for 47 years, aided by Jane Pickens, Paul Anka, Florence Henderson, and other performers. He ...
The ITV Telethon originated from the 10-hour Thames Telethon, which ran in the Thames/London ITV region only, on 2 October 1980 and raised more than £1 million, [1] one month before the BBC's Children in Need appeal the same year Thames broadcast another Telethon on 29–30 October 1985, which raised more than £2.5 million [2]