When and where does the Annual 2009 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon event?
he first Telethon was held in 1955 at Carnegie Hall in New York. The 16 1/2-hour show raised $600,000 for MDA. The first MDA Labor Day Telethon was broadcast in 1966 by one New York City station. It was the first televised fundraising event of its kind to raise more than $1 million. On Labor Day weekend 2009, some 250,000 volunteers across the country will be involved in the Telethon. The 2009 Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon is the 44th annual Labor Day show. It will be broadcast from the South Point Hotel, Casino & Spa in Las Vegas beginning at 9 p.m. EDT on Sunday, Sept. 6, and ending 21 1/2 hours later. The show will reach nearly 40 million viewers in the United States and Canada via some 180 television stations comprising MDA’s “Love Network.” Thanks to RealNetworks it can also be seen at mda.org. In 2008, pledges and donations to the MDA Telethon brought in a record $65 million. No tickets are available to see the national Telethon live. The be
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