St. Jude Radio/Cablethon is March 4-5

The 42nd Annual ESA St. Jude Radio/Cablethon is scheduled for Friday, March 4, and Saturday, March 5.

The Radio/Cablethon will be held from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., Friday, and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday.

This year’s number is 800-303-1045.

KHLS Thunder Country 96.3 FM, a Blytheville-based Sudbury Broadcasting radio station, leads the Radiothon. The programming focuses on St. Jude as the station promotes the weekend’s events and solicits pledges from listeners. KHLS will also air the audio portion of Tubetown’s Cablethon production. 

Celebrating their 15th year of involvement, Ritter Communications will broadcast the event on Saturday, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., on Tubetown, which is channel 21 in Northeast Arkansas and Southeast Missouri and channel 11 in West Tennessee. The Tubetown production of the Cablethon will also be streamed on YouTube Live, which allows viewers around the world to watch by visiting www.YouTube.com/Tubetownonline.

Donations may be pledged during the day of the event by calling the St. Jude Donation number, 800-303-1045.ESA Sorority, a women’s civic club established in Northeast Arkansas who has taken ownership of the event for many decades, fundraises year-round to ensure the success of the Radio/Cablethon. 

Over the past 14 years, the ESA St. Jude Radio/Cablethon has raised over $3.5 million in donations for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, one of the world’s premier centers for the research and treatment of childhood cancer and other catastrophic diseases.

Another successful year of raising funds for St. Jude is anticpated.  St. Jude well known for its dedication to finding a cure and never sending patients a bill for treatment, travel, housing or food. For this reason, the success of the Cablethon directly impacts terminally ill patients being treated at St. Jude.“We are grateful to participate in the Cablethon tradition for yet another year,” said Ritter Communications vice president of marketing, Susan Christian. “We are delighted each year at the number of Ritter Communications employees who donate their time and raise money to support this important event. This is always a fantastic way for us to demonstrate our ‘Right by You’ pledge and stand with the communities we serve.” Marcus Carlton, TubeTown’s Local Content Manager, says “We look forward to this event every year. Our team is consistently amazed at how the community comes out to support the children of St. Jude!”