telethon
noun
tele·thon
ˈte-lə-ˌthän 
: a long television program usually to solicit funds especially for a charity
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Tomorrow, September 17, at 8 EST, a wide array of musicians, from Moby, The Flaming Lips Wayne Coyne and Bootsy Collins to Roseanne Cash, Sheila E and Mickey Guyton will pool their collective talents into a two-hour plus streaming telethon called Musicians for Kamala.
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Steve Baltin, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
The Democratic National Committee did not provide details of the delegate vote count, including a number or state-by-state breakdowns, during a virtual event that had the flavor of a telethon, with campaign officials keeping tabs on a delegate-counting process whose result is a foregone conclusion.
—Will Weissert, arkansasonline.com, 3 Aug. 2024
Ford also showed up 13 times on Fox’s Comic Strip Live and eight times on Jerry Lewis’ Labor Day telethon, which raised money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
The telethon, which aired live on KTLA, was hosted by Yvette Nicole Brown and Tom Bergeron.
—Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
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Steve Baltin, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2024
The Democratic National Committee did not provide details of the delegate vote count, including a number or state-by-state breakdowns, during a virtual event that had the flavor of a telethon, with campaign officials keeping tabs on a delegate-counting process whose result is a foregone conclusion.
—Will Weissert, arkansasonline.com, 3 Aug. 2024
Ford also showed up 13 times on Fox’s Comic Strip Live and eight times on Jerry Lewis’ Labor Day telethon, which raised money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
—Mike Barnes, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 May 2024
The telethon, which aired live on KTLA, was hosted by Yvette Nicole Brown and Tom Bergeron.
—Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
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telethon
noun
tele·thon
ˈtel-ə-ˌthän
: a long television program usually to raise funds for a charity
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