WIBX Raises $17,000 for Heart Association
The numbers are in from America’s Greatest Heart Run and Walk from Utica this past weekend. More than $1.2 million was raised in total, and Newsradio 950 WIBX is proud to report this year’s Heart Radiothon accounted for $17,000 of that total.
In a news post on their homepage (you’ll have to scroll down quite a ways to find it), the station reports this year’s radiothon finished significantly higher than last year’s total of $12,300.
Even though the Heart Run/Walk and the accompanying telethon have since grown to account for a larger chunk of the total money raised, many tend to forget WIBX was the beginning of it all. The original Heart Run and Radiothon was held 37 years ago, in memory of Ralph Allinger, a WIBX employee who died of heart disease. According to AllAccess.com, WIBX is the only station still holding annual radiothons for the American Heart Association.
One Response to “WIBX Raises $17,000 for Heart Association”
April 4th, 2008 at 12:03 am
[...] days broadcasting live from the Utica College gymnasium during the weekend of March 8-9, to raise more than $17,000 for the American Heart Association, during it’s 37th annual Heart Radiothon, a part of America’s Greatest Heart Run & [...]
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