Country 93.9 KZLA's Sold-Out ``Christmas Concert for Tilden's Children'' Helps Raise $25,000 for Homeless Kids!Entertainment & Country Music Writers LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 9, 2002 It's official! Country 93.9 KZLA's "The Christmas Concert for Tilden's Children" is a sold out event! Country music superstars Dwight Yoakam and Brad Paisley will be joined by actor/singer Billy Bob Thornton Robert George (Bob) Thornton (born July 10 1962, in Los Angeles, California) is a retired American professional basketball player in the NBA whose career lasted from 1985 to 1996. He was a 6'10" 225 forward. He holds career averages of 3.0 points and 2.5 rebounds in 283 total games. , plus Jennifer Hanson, KTLA-TV Los Angeles' Jennifer York and ventriloquist Jeff Dunham Jeff Dunham is an award winning ventriloquist and a stand-up comedian. He has performed on numerous comedy shows, including Comedy Central Presents in 2003. His usual puppets include a woozle named Peanut, a bitter old man named Walter, a dead terrorist named Achmed and to perform live at The Canyon in Agoura Hills on Wednesday, December 18th in a benefit show for L.A. Family Housing. KZLA gave tickets to "The Christmas Concert for Tilden's Children" for each $25 donation listeners made to "adopt" a child during the holiday season. Thanks to our listeners' generous support, KZLA helped raise $25,000 for homeless and low-income children supported by L.A. Family Housing for a happy holiday season. KZLA introduced its Tilden's Children campaign in May 2002, when LAFH's Chief Executive Officer, David Grunwald, was a guest on the "Peter Tilden Peter Tilden is an American radio personality and the host of America's Earliest Morning Show, an overnight program heard on KABC in Los Angeles. Prior to September 2007, Tilden's program aired nationwide on the ABC News & Talk satellite channel, heard on both XM Morning Show" and raised awareness and educated KZLA's listeners regarding critical social problems in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- skyrocketing housing costs, homelessness, and other related issues. Tilden's Children offers KZLA listeners a proactive role in the solution to these problems with the opportunity to "be a hero to a homeless child" by helping them look forward to a positive future. KZLA is the most listened to Country radio station in America with over 700,000 listeners per week and is owned and operated by Emmis Communications. Emmis Communications (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :EMMS EMMS Electronic Media Management System (IBM) EMMS Electronic Music Management System EMMS Express Mail Military Service (US Postal Service) EMMS Electronic Mail and Message System ) is a diversified media firm with radio broadcasting, television and magazine publishing operations. |
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