MDA Telethon this Sunday.

[XL FANIC]

We are nearing the 45th MDA Telethon. This year it will air for only 6 hours from 6PM-Midnight. So watch the telethon on Sunday and after it ends post what you liked, what you hated, or how much money your local station made.

[texasstooge]

For the past 38 years, NBC O&O station KXAS-TV in Dallas/Fort Worth has been a long time affiliate of the MDA telethon. They've raised substantial amounts of money locally...like over $2 Million a year. With the MDA Telethon now scaled back to 6 hours on a Sunday Night, the duties have been turned over to KTXA-TV (branded "TXA 21"), due to the fact that it would interfere with NBC's schedule. In KXAS's last recent years of doing this, most of the telethon was preempted because they feel golf and NBC Nightly News is more important. KTXA will begin an hour earrlier at 5PM that night to get a head start on local donations, so I hope they do well.

Link to "MDA Telethon" page on CBS DFW's website.

I have a couple best friends diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy. One I knew when I started Middle/Jr. High School and helped out during gym class, and the other I knew in college.

[texasstooge]

I haven't seen the whole Telethon, but I tuned in to the last hour. The Dallas/Fort Worth area raised in total $3,108,655.