Monday 8 June at 3pm - 5pm
The Gold Week Telethon
Join Nine in partnership with the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation for the 11th annual Gold Telethon! As we continue with lockdown restrictions, companies and people from around NSW can still rally together in the hope of raising much needed funds.
This years telethon is broadcast from the Coogee Bay Hotel in Sydney instead of at Ch 9 studios
plus i think it’s all pre-recorded
Good job with those caps! 
Meanwhile, here’s the final wrap-up report from Mike Dalton:
Tally as of the end of tonight’s Nine News Sydney was nearly $1.65 Million - well down on last year’s $6.1 Million, but of course still a very good effort considering how things are at the moment with the pandemic and everything else.
Hopefully the Gold Telethon will be able to return to it’s normal format next year, even if it won’t quite be the same since this year’s was probably supposed to be the last at Willoughby before Nine moves to North Sydney.
Bit late to ask this, did Nine make this available in any form for viewers to watch / donate from interstate? I don’t believe it was on a multi-channel even here? I’m positive @SydneyCityTV will know.
The RCH Good Friday Appeal I don’t believe could be viewed interstate (unless you were able to change the live stream location to Victoria on the app?) IIRC?
The Gold Telethon has been made available via a livestream for the benefit of interstate viewers in the past, but I don’t think this year’s was.
Besides, was it even live or entirely pre-recorded?
Oh, wasn’t it?
Nine will hold a second telethon for Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation this year, as part of 2020 Light Up Xmas Appeal. The 3-hour special will air on Nine in NSW and ACT this Saturday (December 19) from 2pm.
Nine will present the first ever Light Up Xmas Appeal for Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation.
The appeal is in support of Sydney’s great network of child healthcare services, including The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick, Kids Research, the Newborn and paediatric Emergency Transport Service (NETS) and the only children’s hospice in NSW, Bear Cottage.
A star lineup of Nine’s personalities will host the broadcast, including TODAY Extra’s David Campbell, Sylvia Jeffreys and Belinda Russell, TODAY’S Brooke Boney, Weekend TODAY’S Richard Wilkins as well as newsreader Peter Overton.
Multiple ARIA Award winner Delta Goodrem and family favourites The Wiggles will be performing, along with the great Australian pop group Human Nature, Masked Singer winner Bonnie Anderson, Eurovision finalist Dami Im and Aussie singer-songwriter G Flip.
Powerful and heartwarming stories will be told by TODAY’S Karl Stefanovic, Ally Langdon and Alex Cullen, Wide World of Sports’ Erin Molan, journalist Leila McKinnon and more Nine favourites.
The stories include:
- The remarkable Miles brothers, one of whom is living with cerebral palsy and the other who has overcome brain cancer.
- A courageous eight-year-old girl with a rare genetic condition known as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome which effects the connective tissues supporting skin, bones and blood vessels.
- The resilient young girl now aged ten who was diagnosed with a rare neurological condition known as moyamoya disease after waking up one morning covered in yellow bruises and struggling to get out of bed.
- And the extraordinary young boy diagnosed with kidney disease while in utero.
Every year, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead and Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick care for more than 150,000 children, seeing more than 88,000 children through their emergency departments and performing more than 18,000 operations. Bear Cottage support 200 children and families with life-limiting illnesses during respite visits, NETS continue to work closely with 252 hospitals across NSW, receiving an average of 11 calls a day involving hours of consultation and support while researchers in Kids Research continue working towards new treatments and cures, conducting more than 200 clinical trials a year.
Money raised during the appeal will go towards supporting these vital services and could help fund play therapy toys and equipment, specialised cots and paediatric beds, a specialised NETS ambulance, spa therapy and other services.
To donate to the Light Up Xmas Appeal, go to lightupxmas.org.au or call 1800 244 537.
UPDATE 2:
Knowing my luck we’ll probably get an answer sometime in the next day or two, but I’ll ask anyway…
Any word on if there’s gonna be a Gold Telethon 2021? And if so, will it be another OB (as per last year’s shortened telecast at the Coogee Bay Hotel) or the start of what will hopefully be an exciting new era of Gold Telethons from North Sydney?
Don’t know how I missed this earlier, but this is the current promotional header image for the “Sydney Children’s Hospital Foundation” Twitter account:
With a “Proudly Supported by Seven News” logo I’d be willing to predict that if the Gold Telethon does eventually make a comeback, it might be on a new network. And since enough time has passed that most will have completely forgotten the “Channel Seven Sydney Telethon” from 2015…
Still nothing on this years event?
You’d think with restrictions eased and basically gone it would be a great time to hold the Gold Telethon and throw a big event for the end of the year.
I can only presume that the Gold Telethon no longer exists as the SCHF moved onto other fundraising initiatives.
That would be a great shame.
To have a platform like a local TV station doesn’t make sense to throw that away.
We’ve seen how amazing Perth’s Telethon and Nine’s QLD Telethon just how important they are and how much money they do raise.
Was/is that even on this year? While there was a post in the relevant thread from early August pointing towards a Telethon concert being held at Fortitude Valley Music Hall (and broadcast on Nine in Queensland) last Saturday, I’m not sure if it actually went ahead/aired over the weekend.
No it’s been postponed to Saturday 23 April 2022.
Ahh, so that’d explain why TV.Cynic (who I’m sure would cover a telecast like this if it went ahead) didn’t have anything to say about it last weekend!
As for the Gold Telethon, my best guess is that the “Sydney Sick Kids Appeal” in conjunction with Seven may have been its replacement - promoted by Mark Ferguson during The Morning Show on June 24. I’d imagine that if it wasn’t for the deteriorating COVID situation in NSW at the time (which prevented Fergo visiting hospitals that day) there may have been a more significant on-air appeal although of course it’s hard to say for sure.
