Telethons in the U.S. have become pretty much a dead issue since Muscular Dystrophy ended the Jerry Lewis-less and much shorter appeal some years ago. There's the cost of doing them and the fact that they do disrupt programming, weekend sports programming in particular. Which is why PBS stations stopped doing fundraising auctions some time ago, despite the problem of offending the volunteers who put worked on them--program disruption when people started actually watching PBS. Although, of course, pledge drives already do program disruption for the regular PBS viewers who are not happy about seeing the classic rock concerts and Suze Orman infomercials that pop up during pledge drives and pre-empt "Frontline"/"Nature"/etc.
Mark Jeffries [email protected] On Wed, Dec 8, 2021 at 12:22 PM Diner <[email protected]> wrote: > CBS3 Philadelphia does an annual telethon for Ronald McDonald House > Charities in November. But it's barely a telethon. First of all, they run > it on the Thursday before Thanksgiving, from 6am to 8pm. The main telethon > consists of a one-hour segment at 9am, another one-hour segment at 7pm, and > a one-hour segment on their CW sister station at 10 am. The rest of the > telethon consists of break-in segments on their newscasts, plus webcasting. > > On Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 11:48:24 AM UTC-5 [email protected] > wrote: > >> It is tradition in my home town that the local TV station holds a >> telethon to raise funds for a children's charity. >> >> LIONS - CTV CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS TELETHON (ctvlionstelethon.ca) >> <https://ctvlionstelethon.ca/> >> >> It was held last Saturday from 2pm-11pm. It is classic local-tv fare, >> with the local news hosts, and any other on-air personalities doing >> duties. Also included are various local radio personalities (from >> co-owned radio station). >> >> Paraphrased typical quotes: >> * Let's go to Tony for another cheque presentation (enter local org rep >> with an oversized cheque) >> * Here's (local singer) doing her own rendition of Silent Night >> * Let's go to Will to give us an update on the total board! >> * We have a $500 donation from Frank's Plumbing putting out a challenge >> to all other local plumbers to match or better this donation. >> >> Wondering if anyone on the list can comment on how prevalent these local >> seasonal telethons still are in other areas? >> >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/f86b1c28-e1fe-4558-80be-4aff648ab9aen%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/f86b1c28-e1fe-4558-80be-4aff648ab9aen%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJ_uKi_Seras2JUY7pJD9xRJFSknuG%3Dydm2uV-aviRRyccviSw%40mail.gmail.com.
