Emmis Austin Radio led a six-station, daylong donation drive on Wednesday, September 7th for the victims of the Central Texas Wildfires. The drive resulted in $25,314 raised for the Red Cross of Central Texas and three truck loads of much needed supplies for the Catholic Diocese Charities of Central Texas.
The drive took place at multiple locations throughout the city. Newsradio KLBJ 590AM & 99.7FM and 93.7 KLBJ-FM were at the Rudy?s Country Store and Bar-B-Q on 183 and Duval, 93.3 KGSR and 103.5 BOB-FM were at Rudy?s Country Store and Bar-B-Q in Round Rock, and 107.1 La Z and 101X were at La Hacienda off of I-35 and William Cannon.
Brown Distributing (Budweiser) provided three large delivery trucks to haul the donated supplies. The space to hold the collected supplies was donated by Freight Solution Providers.
The collected supplies and monetary donations were in addition to a large delivery truck full of supplies that were donated by listeners of the Dudley and Bob Show on 93.7 KLBJ on Tuesday morning, benefitting the first responders and fire victims assisted by The Austin Christian Fellowship located on River Place Blvd., near Steiner Ranch.
In addition, Newsradio KLBJ provided extensive coverage of the wildfires rampaging across Central Texas, including the only live continuous media coverage of the danger beginning Sunday night at 7:30 p.m. Program Director Mark Caesar and Talk Host Kenny Rahmeyer anchored the live coverage featuring frequent live updates from News Director Todd Jeffries, Reporter Jarrod Allen in Bastrop and Reporter Barbara McCarley near Steiner Ranch.
KLBJ also allowed listeners to call throughout the night with first hand accounts of the multiple fires threatening the area. This type of real-time eyewitness reporting provided invaluable information to central Texas residents regarding the fire?s path, damage, and all related efforts to aid the victims.
Emmis Communications owns and operates six radio stations in Austin including 93.3 KGSR (also on 102.7), 101X, 103.5 BOB-FM , 107.1 La Z, and Newsradio KLBJ 590AM & 99.7. Emmis also now offers three HD-2 music channels in Austin, 101.5 No Control Radio HD-2, 103.5 MEGA HD-2 and 93.3 The Music Lounge HD-2.
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