Editing Telethon (section)

====Netherlands====
The first nationwide telethon in the [[Netherlands]] was ''[[Open Het Dorp]]'' ("Open The Village"), which was classic in format, broadcasting for 23 hours on television and radio from 26 to 27 November 1962. Funds were raised to build and open a special village/community for disabled people.
[[Image:SeriousRequest2009a.jpg|thumb|The "Glass House" radiothon studio of ''Serious Request'' in [[Groningen]]'s market square in 2009, in front of its city hall]]
In 1984 for the first time a number of Dutch [[humanitarian aid]] organisations collaborated with a combination of broadcasters, to raise funds through a unified effort: "Eén voor Afrika" (One for Africa).<ref name=giro555>{{cite web |url=http://giro555.nl/over-sho/ |title=Over Giro555 - Giro555 |language=nl |trans-title=About account 555 - Account 555 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=2014 |publisher=[[Samenwerkende Hulporganisaties]] |access-date=29 December 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229212841/http://giro555.nl/over-sho/ |archive-date=29 December 2014 }}</ref> With a combination of 10 hours of television and 18 hours of radio broadcast, €44&nbsp;million was raised. After another such action in 1987, the organisations decided to sign a permanent cooperation agreement as the [[Samenwerkende Hulporganisaties]] (or SHO, meaning Cooperating Aid Organizations). Although the campaigns gradually moved away from classic telethons over the years, the SHO raised some €700&nbsp;million in forty nationwide efforts since it started.<ref name=giro555/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/binnenland/top-5-opbrengsten-giro-555 |title=Top 5 opbrengsten giro 555 |language=nl |trans-title=Top 5 proceeds on account 555 |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=11 November 2013 |publisher=[[RTL Nieuws]] |access-date=29 December 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141229212922/http://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/binnenland/top-5-opbrengsten-giro-555 |archive-date=29 December 2014 }}</ref>

Starting in 2004 an annual multi-day radiothon called [[Serious Request]] is hosted by national pop music station [[3FM]] in the week before Christmas. Three popular [[Disc jockey#Types|radio DJ]]s are locked up for six days in a small temporary radio studio (the "Glass House"), placed in a main square of a Dutch city. Living on a juice-only fast, the DJs make an interactive, themed broadcast around the clock, to raise funds and awareness for [[International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement|International Red Cross]] initiatives. Regular programming on the station is suspended — instead 3FM and its website are completely dedicated to the event, which is also transmitted as a continuous audio and video [[Streaming media|live-stream]]. Additionally there is television coverage, integration with [[social media]], and a dedicated [[mobile app]]. All totalled the eleven editions have raised €76.8&nbsp;million.<ref>{{Citation|title=3FM Serious Request|date=2018-12-20|url=https://nl.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=3FM_Serious_Request&oldid=52826950|work=Wikipedia|language=nl|access-date=2019-06-12}}</ref>

''Serious Request'' spin-off projects have since been adopted in [[Belgium]], [[Switzerland]], [[Sweden]], [[Kenya]], [[South Korea]], [[Austria]], [[Latvia]] and [[Portugal]].