'THON: 50 Years for the Kids' airing on abc7NY
"THON - 50 Years For The Kids" will be hosted by Walter Perez, Alicia Vitarelli, and Ducis Rodgers from our sister station, 6abc.
OT: WTF how does Penn State get their dance marathon on NYC TV?
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It’s for a good cause.1/2 hour show featuring their dance marathon and a donation link. Come On Rutgers....we have to get NBC to air ours since we have multiple RU grads there!'THON: 50 Years for the Kids' airing on abc7NY
"THON - 50 Years For The Kids" will be hosted by Walter Perez, Alicia Vitarelli, and Ducis Rodgers from our sister station, 6abc.abc7ny.com
I have donated to the Rutgers dance marathon & quinnipiac dance marathon. I will never ever EVER donate to thon. F them
Mrs Screw since you are so good with your twitter outreach, you should send something out to @DylanDreyerNBC to start the campaign to get RU on a NYC 4 . http://marathon.rutgers.edu/
I also donate to the Rutgers Dance Marathon. Let's get an early start on those donations: https://secure.embracekids.org/site...&NONCE_TOKEN=BF034CB902CD5450B00DA0C2872AFD64
Oh good lord the "Thon - it's for the kids". I guess it's better than "we are raising money for the Hersey medical center to pay salaries, yada yada yada". I haven't looked in years, but if my memory is correct less than 10% goes to anything anyone would call "for the kids" a la the Ronald McDonald house and organizations like that, but boy they do a great job selling it as such.
There's plenty of reasons to attack PSU. This is not one of them. Be better Rutgers fans.
if we really wanted to mess with them we would support the hell out of it and raise more from RU then PSU
I don't think Rutgers DM is as established as Thon is at this point, so a NY media buy would be tough. It does well and it's still growing, but not at that place yet. Now, maybe there is potential for a media partner to sponsor or get involved as a charitable or community outreach effort. That could work too.
You guys sure about that?
Following the money: Where does your THON donation end up?
UNIVERSITY PARK -- Dancing for a cure, THON has been a staple of Penn State University for about 45 years, raising hundreds of millions of dollars for childhood cancer since 1973.The annual IFC/Panhellenic dance marathon aims to add to that total by tens o
wjactv.com
No issue with this. I’m in a position to know quite a bit about RUDM. Those kids work their butts off, but Covid has really changed the game the last two years causing overall funds raised to be significantly lower (at a time when the patients & families benefitting from the funds are arguably struggling more than ever). On a relative basis, it’s likely that PSU Thon has experienced the same, so if they want to use a new tactic to drive fundraising dollars, they won’t get an objection from me.
Edited to add: Rather than complain about seeing Thon on tv, why not donate to RUDM if you are able? Click here to donate
Edited to add: Rather than complain about seeing Thon on tv, why not donate to RUDM if you are able? Click here to donate
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It's a smart move if you can swing it financially. There are probably a ton of PSU alums in the viewing area, who may not even remember that Thon was coming up. They will be like, "Oh yeah, forgot about that, let me click on the link and donate something." Makes it easy for people to stay involved and support the event even if it's from their couches.
1/2 hour show featuring their dance marathon and a donation link. Come On Rutgers....we have to get NBC to air ours since we have multiple RU grads there!'THON: 50 Years for the Kids' airing on abc7NY
"THON - 50 Years For The Kids" will be hosted by Walter Perez, Alicia Vitarelli, and Ducis Rodgers from our sister station, 6abc.
They’ve been in the game longer - they’ve got 26 years on us. PSUs Thon has been the model for all other schools, including ours. They did nearly 14 million. We just recently got over the 1 mm mark.
Rates are dirt cheap, and the station needs programming like this for FCC compliance. Ask nicely and they will let you have some time
RUDM’s sole beneficiary is the Embrace Kids Foundation in New Brunswick, which is across the street from RWJ. PSUs Thon is so large, they also help fund research.
One of the benefits of the partnership is that the student orgs adopt a family (this is a feature of both RU and PSU). It’s incredibly rewarding for the students, children and families - though unfortunately it doesn’t always go as we all hope.
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