2:15 ish
2022 totals:
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And there we go. Thanks for posting. Itâs not just last year either, the Perth Telethon has been in front on an annual basis for about a decade.
Thatâs not to say that the GFA isnât important but the annual Telethon bashing from some here isnât warranted.
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Sorry I do stand corrected. It was a unequal comparison considering the telethon runs for 26 hours where as the GFA runs half of that anyway.
Iâm not bashing the telethon itself at all.
My point is that they have clearly stepped up the budget for Telethon and wound back the GFA broadcast budget.
And I do just want to point out again, telethon runs double if not longer than the length of the GFA
This comes up every year. I agree that Seven have treated the GFA poorly compared to Telethon. I donât know why that is but I also donât see it as a competition between them either.
I admit I am biased towards Telethon since I grew up in Perth and I understand its history with TVW and how special it is to WA. Iâm glad they havenât scaled it back and, as I mentioned in my previous posts in this topic, there is a good reason for that.
Again that isnât to say that Telethon is more important than the GFA. Both raise money for an extremely good cause and itâs great that both events still take place.
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I feel the GFA now is missing that energetic, natural, fun, witty, pro anchor and entertainer, someone who Seven used to have in their stables and use for many years⌠Can you guess who Iâm referring? Hint: fall from grace. But yeah, they were fantastic on these sorts of events, especially with the little kids and parents.
I donât believe anyone here is⌠itâs just a matter of Seven investing more into the Good Friday Appeal.
Really? I know of those two options which Iâd rather watch.
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The show is so flat. There is no vibe at all. Itâs awful.
It also shows the shrinking of talent within the network too. All the drama shows used to have the cast come on.
Now itâs literally news , H&A and reality and thatâs itâŚ
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And with H&A based in Sydney thereâs probably only a handful of cast making the trip to Melbourne.
But it was more livelier when they had the panels on, but they havenât done those during the day for years. I always found it off that with the Melbourne Comedy Festival always on around Easter that there isnât a lot of talent there invited or volunteering to appear.
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I believe they had them last year during the evening.
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I must have missed that. I guess they might do that tonight, then.
To be fair, the AFL game does help not only raise funds for but awareness of the Good Friday Appeal - particularly to a wider audience considering Fox Footy also does a good job promoting the appeal during their broadcast.
During an appearance at the end of the afternoon coverage, Larry Emdur highlighted that a comedy panel would feature tonight.
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The Federal Govt donated $2,000,000 ($6m over 3 years) that matched last year. But otherwise the total seems to be well ahead of the 2022 total for the same time. Perhaps the timing of some of the larger donations.
Ahead of the AFL last year was just below $7m:
2022:
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I wonder if weâll see the famous desk come out for the evening session.
Looks like quite a few talent, including Sydney or non-Melbourne based, have made it down, Larry opened from his make-up room and showed all the stars in the green room (at NEP BTW) such as Kochie and Nat, some H&A including Lynne McGranger and Rob Mills.
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Noticed no âLiveâ add-on to Sevenâs watermark today, must be some automated issue with it being in the top-right for special events that utilise bottom of screen for supers
The performances on the entertainment front are few and far between. Kate Ceberano opened the show at 7pm and itâs 8.41 and weâve been teased an Anthony Callea song but nothing yet.
There was a noticeable improvement in atmosphere when Kochie and Nat were on the panel. Seems like theyâre doing a change now though unfortunately.
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Laz doing a lot of heavy lifting
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If the 9Telethon in Qld is anything to go by, it wonât be great. Itâs not even named the Qld Childrenâs Hospital Appeal like it was when it aired on BTQ7 for many years. Starts at 7pm and ends before midnight. Usually a few B grade guests and newsreaders as hosts.
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