By Multi Channel News Staff -- Multichannel News, 9/20/2005 7:50:00 PM
ABC Sports, ESPN and the National Football League figured out a way to make $5 million in just six-and-a-half hours.
Their Hurricane Relief Telethon during an NFL Monday Night Football primetime doubleheader on both networks generated $5 million in pledges that will go toward recovery and rebuilding efforts in the Gulf Coast region devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
Donations will benefit the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund (www.bushclintonkatrinafund.org), which former Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton are leading.
“We are proud of the people of the NFL, ABC and ESPN for coming together in a short time under complex circumstances to make the telethon a success where it counts the most -- raising funds to help others,” ESPN and ABC Sports president and co-chair of Disney Media Networks George Bodenheimer said in a prepared statement.
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The Association of Cable Communicators headed
west from Washington, D.C., to Denver as its 2009 Forum and Beacon Awards ceremony became
part of Cable Connections-Fall festivities.
HBO Sports senior vice president Mark Taffet discusses the PPV performance prospects for the Sept. 19 Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Juan Manuel Marquez boxing event as well as the network's PPV fight schedule for the rest of the year during a recent interview with Multichannel News.
