If you read the blogs here at TheIndyChannel.com, you may have read Todd and Trisha’s blog about a good friend and employee from RTV 6 fighting cancer.

Don Foss at work, at the Track

Don Foss is the station Production Photographer. Don shoots and edits most of the commercials made here at RTV 6. But he has a particularly gifted eye when it comes to lighting, last year winning an Emmy Award for his outstanding work on a series of news opens and other production lighting work.

Don is battling cancer. And he and his family can use all of our prayers.

Both Don and his wife Susan are advocates to get the word out about this Friday night’s telethon to raise money and awareness about the battle against cancer.

Friday night at 8PM, ABC, CBS and NBC are teaming up and simulcasting an hour to the cause.  Charles Gibson, Katie Couric and Brian Williams will be hosting. Many celebrities will also make appearances. Many, like Christina Applegate, Melissa Etheridge and Sheryl Crowe are cancer survivors.

We all know someone that has been personally impacted by cancer.

Williams, Couric and Gibson will host the show

As one of the organizers of the Friday event pointed out, we can send a man to the moon, we can split an atom…it only makes sense we can stop cancer in its tracks.

“The statistics are staggering,” according to ABC’s Charles Gibson. “Cancer claims one person every minute of every day in the United States. Every year in this country, it takes the lives of more than half a million people … worldwide, cancer kills more than 6 million people annually. There has been progress on both the research and awareness fronts; as a result, there are over 10 million cancer survivors in the U.S. today. More work urgently needs to be done so that more people will survive.” (Gibson’s friend Peter Jennings passed away from lung cancer just a few years ago.)
“For people struggling with this disease, or those who will be diagnosed, scientific breakthroughs can be a matter of life or death - literally. We want everyone to know that they can make a difference in this fight,” said CBS’s Katie Couric. (Katie lost her husband to cancer.) “Television is a notoriously competitive business. For the three major broadcast networks to join forces is a wonderful example of the power of working together, and we’re very grateful to have the opportunity to reach people all over the country through this show.”

This Friday night this show will be the most important show on television.

Don’t miss it.