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. —

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 See all Example Sentences for telethon