Word: telethons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smoothly-oiled Republican machine, but with considerably less success. The committee has thus far raised far less than the GOP's $35 million, and several campaign officials blaim the lag on peer management in the DNC camp. These critics point to the $2.8 million loss on a highly publicized telethon last September, which DNC Chairman Charles T. Manatt and either committee members estimated would set a record $10 to $20 million. And a December fundraising tour raised barely half of its projected $2.5 million gain...
...have thousands of others on a month-old telethon put on by the Seoul-based Korean Broadcasting System (KBS-TV). Called Searching for Separated Families, the show has reunited some 3,000 South Korean families sundered by the war. Mrs. Kim Ok Soon and her daughter came together last month. Kim Sung Soo and his mother finally found each other a few weeks ago. Huh Hyun Chul learned that his sister is alive and living in Cheju, a resort island off the southern coast. One elderly woman even found her long-lost sister seated in the same row with...
...overwhelming was the response to this original broadcast that the network immediately decided to continue the telethon for a total of 65 hours over the following eight days. Since then, the program has been moved into a regular twelve-hour time slot that begins on Friday nights. It has become by far the most popular TV show in South Korea, commanding as much as 78% of the viewing audience. Lee Won Hong, 54, president of KBS-TV, attributes the telethon's success in part to color television's widespread acceptance in South Korea, but the show...
...addition to writing letters and soliciting from their usual sources. RCS has held several fund-raising events. In November the group held a telethon in which they raised over $15,000 A fundraising cocktail party at the New York City home of entertainer Kitty Carlisle Hart will be held in March...
...packages. In the case of Mexico, 13 leading U.S., Japanese, British and West German bankers worked around the clock for nearly two weeks in the 29th-floor dining room of Citicorp headquarters in New York City to keep the country from defaulting. "It was handled like a money-raising telethon," one observer recounted later. Just the process of sending out the 27-page rescheduling proposal to some 1,400 banks involved in Mexico's loans gobbled up 600 hours of telex time...