The annual muscular dystrophy telethon is supposed to be a “Labor Day Love-In” – a sentimental and entertaining fund-raiser that collected more than $45 million last year for research and treatment of ...

A grandfather spoke from his heart last weekend at the 10th annual telethon benefitting the Jayne Shover Easter Seal Rehabilitation Center in Elgin when he told of the joy he felt when he saw his ...

The Easter Seal Society of Broward County raised $101,300 during its local telethon on March 8, officials for the charity announced. The national Easter Seal Telethon raised a record $46 million to ...

It took 200,000 paper balloons, thousands of pennies and tons of soda cans, but for the first time, Newington Children’s Hospital raised more than $1 million during its annual telethon. “With an ...

A freckle-faced 5-year-old from Parkville will be named the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s National Poster Child during this weekend’s Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon — and the boy’s mother is ...

The Ninth Annual All Children's Hospital Telethon will be broadcast Saturday and Sunday in hopes of raising the money needed for the continued growth of the hospital. The telethon, which since its ...

Donors contributed $851,844 to Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters at the conclusion of 21 hours on television station WVEC May 30-31. Last year, the Children’s Miracle Network Telethon raised ...

Recently some local sports viewers were upset that they couldn’t see a television game because it was interrupted by a telethon. Sunday’s Portland vs. San Antonio NBA game was missed by local viewers ...

The telethon to aid Red Cross relief efforts in Dade County generated $2.2 million in pledges and would have raised far more if there had been additional phone lines, a key organizer said on Friday.

Lou Rawls helped raise more than $11 million for the United Negro College Fund during his 13th annual Christmas telethon. The seven-hour Lou Rawls Parade of Stars on Saturday night featured Michael ...

Makers of a new Oasis documentary sanctioned by Noel and Liam Gallagher are seeking what is thought to be the band's first TV appearance - as part of an ITV Telethon in 1992. The broadcast, which took ...

Spurning the traditional bake sale, an employees union at North Chicago Unit School District 187 hopes to broadcast a telethon in an effort to rehire 40 members in the financially troubled school ...