I think it comes down to the agreement with the hospital. If the hospital wants to go with GTV9, then I’m sure they could.
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Not good. Let’s hope they have pushed some of the large cheque donations to this afternoon.
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The lack of morning telethon telecast on Seven has been receiving backlash on social media.
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No rotating panel this year? It’s been Peter Mitchell and Jacqueline Felgate for the whole 75 minutes. In past years we’ve had Neil Mitchell and Philip Brady on in the afternoon among others.
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Neil said on radio this morning he’ll be on tonight
Lewis Martin the managing director of Seven Melbourne is a director of the boards of both The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation and The Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal charity. So it would seem unlikely that Seven would not be involved in the future. Similarly, The Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal charity is run out of News Corp, so it unlikely the Herald-Sun would ever withdraw their support.
In 2018 The Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal gave $14,630,542.00 to The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation from total donations of $18,398,198.00 (total income of $21,610,049.00). There were expenses of $3,893,410.00, mostly for rent, printing and event costs plus staff costs of $1,003,892.00.
More details here:
The Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal
https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/5884a65cf6f1689be7d615dc55747ffe#ais-7338e2719ea2e345ac22274736a40970
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He actually came on about ten minutes after I wrote that post!
Edwina Bartholomew and Larry Emdur hosting from 2pm until 4pm.
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One theory in recent years with the changes including the AFL game, is that Seven focus on the prime time show.
The AFL also helps to promote and boost not only the Appeal coverage, but also the donations. As well as the News increasing audiences.
Especially with 3AW (one of the Appeal’s radio partners) now owned by Nine. It won’t be the first time the event changes media partners. 3DB joined the Appeal in 1942 but withdrew more than 70 years later after several changes of ownership as well as renaming of station to Mix 101.1.
Also Peter Mitchell chatted to Denis Walter earlier. Mitch said he would be there at the end of tonight’s broadcast when the total amount is revealed. He added there had been seven times in Appeal history that the money raised by the end of Good Friday did not exceed the previous year’s total.
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Weird as. Obviously they decided to hold off major donations until late in the piece
they usually hold off big donations until the evening anyway. But to come from $2.4m behind 2018 at midday, to suddenly being ahead at 4pm… that’s quite a turnaround.
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A lot of the larger donations were pushed over to the afternoon.
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The house sale raised $761,000 this afternoon plus could be a few more big cheques tonight.
Edwina Bartholomew read the 5am news this morning and has been on the telethon this afternoon so it’s a long day for her. Is the early edition news usually done out of Sydney or Melbourne?
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Yep, but that’s normal.