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“telethons”
1. A prolonged TV fundraiser: Milton Berle's 16-hour television cancer fundraiser in April, 1949, is probably the first to have been called a telethon.
2. Etymology: from tele of "television" + thon of "marathon".
2. Etymology: from tele of "television" + thon of "marathon".
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marathon-; and related entries ending in -athon, -thon
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tele-, tel-, telo-, -telic, -telical
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