The Perth Thread

[Scotland]

It's an interesting plot over time.

Started out about $100k in the 60s then steadily increased each year to crack $1m in 1980. Was $2.1m in 1984 and $3.6m in 1986 then plateaued and averaged $2.7m until 2007 when it hit $6.5m. 1995/96 were basically an even $2m, over $1.5m less than a decade earlier. Since 2007 it has gone $7.5m, $6.3m, $9.2m, $13.4m, $16.8m, $20.7m, $25.2m.

Boomtown!

 

[Keys]

It's an interesting plot over time.

Started out about $100k in the 60s then steadily increased each year to crack $1m in 1980. Was $2.1m in 1984 and $3.6m in 1986 then plateaued and averaged $2.7m until 2007 when it hit $6.5m. 1995/96 were basically an even $2m, over $1.5m less than a decade earlier. Since 2007 it has gone $7.5m, $6.3m, $9.2m, $13.4m, $16.8m, $20.7m, $25.2m.

Boomtown!

It really has ballooned in recent years imo due to the big end of town realising how they could tap into the publicity attached to making a large donation to telethon - BHP being just the latest example. Big company who spend a lot in the community and donations to charities a lot of which most people wouldn't even know about - announcing a $20m sponsorship deal over 5 years is big news and gets a lot more attention than a big spend to a regional hospital or some other cause.

When I was a boy telethon was much more about families donating and was far more about the WA community making a contribution and less about corporate sponsorship. Like most things, including football, its whored itself out to big dollars and along the way lost a lot of what made it special in the first place

 

[Borry]

Last time I remember watching it, it was still a big deal if they reached $1 million.

My uncle bought the house once, too. He was on his way somewhere and stopped in for a look at the auction. Put his hand up for a laugh as the opening bidder. Turned out to be a one-bid auction.

There was a year when the winning bidder couldn't afford it.

 

[electricfeel]

Last time I remember watching it, it was still a big deal if they reached $1 million.

My uncle bought the house once, too. He was on his way somewhere and stopped in for a look at the auction. Put his hand up for a laugh as the opening bidder. Turned out to be a one-bid auction.

I remember every time they reached $1 million the panel would get up and dance in a chain to that Celebration song.

 

[Borry]

 

[Scotland]

Next year I'm going to ring up and offer to donate if Samantha Jade* takes her top off.

*Or equivalent Channel 7 "star"

 

[Keys]

Next year I'm going to ring up and offer to donate if Samantha Jade* takes her top off.

*Or equivalent Channel 7 "star"

I'm sorry sir, that would be inappropriate

 

[The Speaker]

I remember every time they reached $1 million the panel would get up and dance in a chain to that Celebration song.

Thank you very much for your kind donations, thank you very very very very very much.

 

[Ross Prunster]

Appealathon, the Brett Voss, David Kernaghan, Brett Goodes of the Perth athons.

 

[electricfeel]

Thank you very much for your kind donations, thank you very very very very very much.

"1, 3, 1, triple 5, triple 7, it's our Telethon, Telethonnnn"

I made that number up but it's probably something similar to that. They also don't sing that anymore.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Wasn't it 3-2-1 double-1 double-1 or something? They probably stopped singing it when they had to put a 9 on the front and it didn't work any more.

 

[The Speaker]

"1, 3, 1, triple 5, triple 7, it's our Telethon, Telethonnnn"

I made that number up but it's probably something similar to that. They also don't sing that anymore.

I thought it was 1300 73 75 07.

And looking at their website, it still is. Although at one point I think they changed it to a six digit number instead.

 

[The Speaker]

 

[Illinois Nazi]

Damn, I was close!

 

[The Speaker]

Wasn't it 3-2-1 double-1 double-1 or something? They probably stopped singing it when they had to put a 9 on the front and it didn't work any more.

That was the early one.

 

[blueboy25]

Next year I'm going to ring up and offer to donate if Samantha Jade* takes her top off.

*Or equivalent Channel 7 "star"

Susannah Carr?

 

[Milang_Panthers]

Susannah Carr?

Angela Tsun please

 

[gaskin]

Angela Tsun please

Natalia Cooper

 

[Silent Alarm]

Telethon is embarrassing and epitomises the rut Western Australia is in

 

[blueboy25]

Telethon is embarrassing and epitomises the rut Western Australia is in

Don't Victoria have something similar with the good friday appeal?

 

[Silent Alarm]

Don't Victoria have something similar with the good friday appeal?

No idea actually, but it's probably just as rubbish, self-serving, and unentertaining as Telethon. If you ever want to see the great decline of the Australian raconteur, comedian, and personality, then the lineup of Telethon is surely it.

Does Noel Brunning still come up, like Ole Gunner Solsjkaer off the bench, from Bunners to make a special appearance?

 

[Scotland]

LOL self-serving. It's a ****ing telethon which raises millions for a childrens hospital.

 

[BALKAN]

Telethon is embarrassing and epitomises the rut Western Australia is in

Whoah, hardly. It raises a metric shit-tonne of money for a good cause. The "entertainment"is cringeworthy but it's not really made for blokes in their 20's.

 

[Borry]

Natalia Cooper

She's working on Nine News in Sydney these days.

 

[Scotland]

Angela Tsun > Natalia Cooper.