Amount Raised for Variety's Compassion Fund Sets New Record

DES MOINES, IA – DECEMBER 12, 2024 — Cumulus Media (NASDAQ: CMLS) announces that Des Moines Country radio station 92.5 KJJY's Two Days of Compassion Radiothon benefiting Variety – The Children's Charity, raised a grand total of $149,335, on Tuesday and Wednesday, December 10th and 11th, from 6:00am-6:00pm on 92.5 KJJY. The radiothon also put 597 teddy bears into the arms of children in local hospitals. This year's event was broadcast live from Jordan Creek Town Center in West Des Moines.

Variety's Compassion Fund benefits families with hospitalized children at Mercy Des Moines and Blank Children's Hospital and allows social workers to identify needs and distribute funds directly to families who are struggling financially. The Compassion Fund was designed to help alleviate the stress and financial burden a family faces while their child is hospitalized. Expenses covered by the Compassion Fund may include gas cards, meals for a parent, help with utility bills, care for siblings of a sick child, a birthday cake for a hospitalized child and Sleep Sacks to help prevent SIDS in newborn babies in Des Moines area hospitals.

Andrew Vonahnen, Program Director, 92.5 KJJY, said: "The KJJY staff makes the Compassion Fund Radiothon an annual success by putting everything they have into it. Tony Conrad, Chad Taylor and Jacob Beals do a great job bringing the Variety of Iowa story to KJJY listeners, and the listeners respond."

Jack Taddeo, Vice President/Market Manager, Cumulus Des Moines, said: "Just when you think the world has become totally self-absorbed, our KJJY fans step up and put the kids first. We love partnering with Variety of Iowa because they get the job done for kids and families in Central Iowa and across the state."

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