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The ABC 7
Blood Drive for the Bay Area
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ABC
7 Meteorologist, Spencer Christian. |
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In response to
January’s emergency appeal for blood donations, KGO-TV
(ABC affiliate) in San Francisco, partnered with BCP to hold a week-long
blood drive for the Bay Area.
During the
week of January 10th, KGO’s drive, titled “The ABC 7 Blood Drive for
the Bay Area”, featured live broadcasts from blood centers around the
region. Reporters and anchors urged Bay Area residents to donate blood and
kept a running tally of the number of units donated at each featured site.
KGO spent four
days at BCP sites. Meteorologists Spencer Christian and Leigh Glaser
broadcast their weather reports live from the Irwin
Center, Marin
Donor Site and Redwood
City Donor Site and reporter Wayne Freedman, broadcast live reports
from the Peninsula
South Bay Center. Their broadcasts featured information about blood
donation, interviews with donors and some light-hearted facts about
donating.
The ABC 7
Blood Drive brought in more than 600 units of blood! And because the
station went way above and beyond the call of duty, BCP is nominating KGO-TV
for the Awards of Merit in the television category given out by the American
Association of Blood Banks. BCP is also working to make the drive with
KGO-TV
an annual event!
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