Austin Station Raise $3.5 Million for COVID-19 Relief

Topic: Vaccine Education
Posted on 4/4/2020

Nexstar Media Group’s NBC affiliate KXAN-TV Austin partnered with other local media outlets on April 3 to raise over $3.5 million for All Together ATX, a relief fund created to assist those suffering due to COVID-19 in central Texas. Stations covered stories related to the need caused by COVID-19 both on-air and digitally.

Participating stations included:

Entercom’s KKMJ-FM, KAMX-FM, KJCE-AM;

Austin Radio Network’s KOKE-FM, KTXX-FM/AM;

TENGA’s ABC affiliate KVUE-TV;

Fox owned-and-operated KTBC-TV;

Univision owned-and-operated KAKW;

and more.

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