Two Salina radio stations, partnering with other radio stations across the country, raised over a million dollars to help in the fight against childhood cancer.

Meridian Media Radio Stations Y 93.7 and FM 104.9 on Friday concluded a two-day radiothon to benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.

Multiple radio stations across the country each year host a similar radiothon.  This is the first time a group of them have partnered to work together, and hosted the event all at the same time, coast-to-coast.

After all was said and done, the stations collected $1,051,367.

All money collected during the radiothon will benefit the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, whose mission is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment.

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a world leader in developing new, improved treatments for children with cancer. They create more clinical trials for cancer than any other children’s hospital.

Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing and food, because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.

Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to more than 80 percent since it opened in 1962.