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WPTV Meteorologist Takes 120-Mile Bike Ride for Charity

Scripps’ NBC affiliate WPTV West Palm Beach Chief Meteorologist Steve Weagle took a 120-mile bike to raise awareness about the beginning of hurricane season, raising more than $164,000 for the American Red Cross.

Cox Media Group - Tulsa Raises $1.1 Million for St. Jude

Cox Media Group Tulsa stations - Fox affiliate KOKI-TV, myNetworkTV affiliate KMYT, KRAV-FM and KWEN-FM – raised a record $1.1 million in this year’s St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway.

WXIX Hosts Tornado Relief Telethon

Gray’s Fox affiliate WXIX Cincinnati raised $77,000 in a telethon held May 30 after a record 18 tornadoes touched down near Dayton on May 27.

WXIX Helps Dayton Tornado Victims With Telethon

WXIX joined with Cincinnati Bell and the American Red Cross Greater Cincinnati/Dayton Region to produce a telethon to help Dayton tornado victims.

WAVY-WVBT Start Relief Fund For Virginia Beach Families

WAVY and WVBT started a relief fund to benefit the victims and families of those killed and wounded in the Virginia Beach attack.

During May, KPRC Salutes Military Appreciation Month

May is Military Appreciation Month, and KPRC, Graham’s NBC affiliate, is spending the month saluting the service and sacrifice of service members.

York’s WPMT Supporting Local Charities With Fundraiser

WPMT, Tribune’s Fox affiliate, is backing a fundraising effort to help support York County charities and services.

ABC30 Half-Hour Special Highlights Students with Special Needs

Students with special needs are finding success! ABC30 will air its new Children First program, Special and Successful.

WXYZ Gets 100 Most-Wanted Fugitives Off The Streets

WXYZ, the Scripps ABC affiliate marked the 100th capture of Detroit’s Most Wanted fugitives last week to honor the law enforcement agencies across Metro Detroit that are working to keep the community safe.

Two Hearst Stations’ Specials Focus On Unity

WBAL, Hearst’s NBC affiliate, will broadcast a one-hour primetime special focusing on many of the issues facing Baltimore.

KDVR-KWGN Campaign Supports Police And Their Families

KDVR and KWGN, respectively, began a month-long campaign which supports law enforcement officers and their families. This is the second year for the Support the Shield campaign which raised more than $680,000 from across Colorado.

WCVB Airing Special On Human Trafficking

ABC affiliate WCVB is airing a half-hour special examining the underground world of human trafficking in Massachusetts, the dire situations that victims encounter, how local survivors escaped that life, and how they’re helping others.

WVTM Raises $169,000 For Tornado Relief

WVTM, Hearst’s NBC affiliate in Birmingham, Ala., raised $169,000 in a one-day telethon to help tornado victims in the state.

WIAT Helps Tornado Victims Recover

WIAT, CBS affiliate, along with other Nexstar stations throughout the state, partnered with the Alabama Broadcasters Association and the Salvation Army of Greater Birmingham, to help tornado victims begin to rebuild and recover, as part of Together in Alabama.

WAAY Devotes A Day To Help Tornado Victims

WAAY, the ABC affiliate, devoted its resources to informing viewers how they can help? tornado victims in Lee County where a deadly E-4 tornado touched down.

Gray’s Fargo Stations Help Make-A-Wish Families

Thanks to KVLY and KXJB, Gray’s NBC and CBS affiliates, Make-A-Wish of North Dakota has more than 500,000 airline miles to help make sick kids’ wishes come true.

Scripps Employees Donate 80,000 New Books

E.W. Scripps employees presented more than 80,000 new books to children across the country, National Reading Day, as part of the Scripps Howard Foundation’s annual “If you give a child a book …” childhood literacy campaign.

WPVI Distributes Thousands of Smoke Alarms

ABC-owned WPVI distributed 10,000 smoke alarms to local families in need through its “Operation 6abc: Save a Life” program.

WDIV Helps Federal Workers During Shutdown

WDIV dedicated its news coverage to helping the estimated 6,000 Michigan families affected by the federal government shutdown.

WCAU and WWSI Air Live Interactive Broadcast Against Cancer

NBC-owned WCAU and Telemundo’s WWSI Philadelphia aired “Progress and Promise Against Cancer Day” live. More than 20 physicians and scientists from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) discussed cancer research, prevention, treatment, and early detection.

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