Austin Media Outlets Band Together For All Together ATX Community Relief 'Digital Telethon'

Community Relief

Media outlets in the AUSTIN area are teaming for an all-day digital telethon on FRIDAY (4/3) to raise money for a new fund supporting CORONAVIRUS COVID-19 crisis community relief efforts in CENTRAL TEXAS.

Among the supporters of ALL TOGETHER ATX, a partnership of the AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION and UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN, are the GENUINE AUSTIN RADIO/AUSTIN RADIO NETWORK cluster -- Sports KTXX-KTAE-A-K270CO (THE HORN), Country KOKE-F-K253AN, and Classic Hits KTXX-HD4-K287FG (105.3 THE BAT) -- the ENTERCOM cluster, News-Talk KJCE-A (TALK 1370), AC KKMJ (MAJIC 95.5), Hot AC KAMX (MIX 94.7), and Classic Hip Hop KKMJ-HD3-K240EL (HOT 95.9) --  CAPITOL BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION Classical KMFA, and UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS News-Talk KUT and Triple A KUTX.

“We are proud to join forces with such a great group of media partners to create awareness for ALL TOGETHER ATX,” said AUSTIN RADIO NETWORK Operations Dir. ERIC RAINES. “AUSTIN and the greater CENTRAL TEXAS region are entertainment and event hubs, the economic impact has had an immense effect on musicians, athletes, bar/wait staff, and the event and hospitality industry. Partnering with UNITED WAY FOR GREATER AUSTIN and the AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION will give our audience the confidence that their donation is going to affect the hardest hit in the CENTRAL TEXAS communities that AUSTIN RADIO NEWORK serve(s).”  

Among the many other media entities involved in the telethon are the AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN, AUSTIN CHRONICLE, AUSTIN BUSINESS JOURNAL, AUSTIN WOMEN magazine, SPECTRUM, FOX O&O KTBC-TV (FOX 7), TEGNA ABC affiliate KVUE-TV, NEXSTAR NBC affiliate KXAN-TV, PBS affiiate KLRU-TV, and UNIVISION O&O KAKW-TV (UNIVISION 62).

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